My Last Post

For this year, anyway.

Census Dotmap

From the site: Census Dotmap is a map of every person counted by the 2010 US Census. The map has 308,450,225 dots - one for each person. On the whole, Census Dotmap is an image of human settlement patterns unmediated by proxies like city boundaries, arterial roads, state lines, etc.

Be patient; depending upon your connection, it will take a little while to load over three million dots!  Use the map feature to zoom down to the area you wish to view in more detail.

As you can see, the Texas Panhandle is sparsely populated, especially compared to the Eastern Seaboard and Southern California.

I like it that way, even though this geographic area doesn't have much clout in Congress or the Texas Legislature.

Census Dotmap

Dallas Cowboy Season

One animation is worth a thousand words.

Countdown to 2013

Countdown Clocks, New Year Countdowns at WishAFriend.com

fastigiate

From the Word of the Day:

fastigiate fas·tig·i·ate [fa-stij-ee-it, -eyt] adjective

1. rising to a pointed top.
2. Zoology . joined together in a tapering adhering group.
3. Botany
  a. erect and parallel, as branches.
  b. having such branches.

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I can think of several comments about this word, but seeing as how it's a "G-rated" blog....

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd