An inflationary index by a professor at Johns Hopkins.
From 11 million percent to 231 million percent in 1 month.
2008’s “Black Monday”
In just one week.
Secret Service is expensive and strained.
Really neat way in which to diagram distance traveled on the moon. Maps of the Apollo 11 moon walks superimposed on a soccer pitch and a baseball diamond. They sure didn’t walk very far. (via Kottke)
One word: awesome. Download for free at the App Store.
The Caucus blog has the answer for what they call the plane Obama flew to Washington tonight.
A real zinger by op-ed columnist Frank Rich writing for the Times.
The world’s ten weirdest hotels at Matador Trips. I love the Forest Hut in Sweden.
Good on ‘em.