Interactive version at coverpop.com. This mosaic is constructed from newspaper headlines from around the world, which I collected from the website newseum.org The underlying image is from the famous Shepard Fairey poster.

Greg Erickson wrote me about these nice handmade wooden Sudoku boards he is selling. Looks like a nice Christmas gift!

A sampling of election night Twitter traffic that I was able to geocode. These are tweets that include the word “Obama”. The arcs are tweets that were directed at another person. The blue circle is the source, and the green circle is the target. Purple dots are tweets that were directed to the world at […]

I’m temporarily turning off a lot of the ads on the site, since Google’s competitive ad-filter is not fast enough to get rid of these abhorrent “Yes on Prop 8” ads that have infected the site today. For the record, I am very, very against California Prop 8, which I find intolerant and hateful. NO […]