Not sure who made this, but I love it.
It’s all of World War II,  for Gamerz Noobs.   
:)

 
I work in downtown San Francisco, just a block from the Embarcadero and the San Francisco Bay.
Today the Olympic torch was supposed to follow a route right on the Embarcadero, from the Giants ballpark to the ferry building and beyond.   That didn’t happy, due to city officials changing the route at the last minute, but […]

It was in 1957, or 1958, that the Negro Space Program was started in response to NASA’s whites only policy.
Here is a short, 10-minute Non-Ken Burns documentary about this little known organization and its accomplishments.
I would like to thank Aaron Venn for bringing this fascinating piece of American History to my attention.

 
From The Raw Story:
White House press secretary admits she didn’t know what Cuban Missile Crisis was
History has a way of repeating itself.
White House press secretary Dana Perino has been front and center of the White House’s push to continue to label Iran a rogue state for its pursuit of uranium enrichment technology.
This comes against the […]

 By Restless
months ago, the best aggregator of full-length video, jonhs.net – see my article of March 5th — changed urls, now moviesfoundonline.com. Youtube and other sites are great for short vidclips; this site is the best repository for the longer stuff.
Want standup — Pablo Francisco, Dane Cook, Carlos Mencia, Bill Hicks, Dave Chappell, Andy Kaufman, […]

 
From The BBC:
Baby mammoth discovery unveiled
A baby mammoth unearthed in the permafrost of north-west Siberia could be the best preserved specimen of its type, scientists have said.
The frozen carcass is to be sent to Japan for detailed study.
The six-month-old female calf was discovered on the Yamal peninsula of Russia and is thought to have died […]

This is so cool and nerdy I had to share.
This guy in Maine has built a 1:20 scale model of the WW II German Pocket Battleship Graf Spee.  The thing is so large, he can actually drive it around the lake!

Over on the Scientific American website they have a cool little application that allows you to use a slider bar to zoom into the future, from 2 days, to 1 billion years, to show what will happen in New York City (and to a greater extent the Earth), simulating what would happen if people disapeared, […]

This analysis and map pretty much sums up what I already knew.  Northern California has an abundent amount of nerds and far to few women.    But then again I grew up on the east coast and know what the women are like back there,  in Southern Maryland you have a choice between big hair and […]

Over on the Wall Street Journal Website they have an interesting little article ojn the history of Presidential Approval ratings since Harry Truman.
It’s interesting to note that every President since Truman, even Kennedy, ended up with a lower approval rating at the end of their time in office than when they started,  with one exception,  […]

You can find a really cool website here that shows the spread of humanity, from it’s origins in Africa 160,000 years ago, through multiple ice ages and vulcanic catastrophes, right up to the spread of humans to every corned of the globe.
Well, that is of course,  you’re one of those intellectual wonders who believes it all […]

 
When I was in college I switched my major from Computer Science to History, with a focus on Latin American History. 
It was then that I first learned about the many atrocities the United States has committed against it’s neighbors in the Western Hemisphere, first under the doctrine of “Manifest Destiny“,  then later as an excuse […]

By  Restless
Mike Whitney at Smirking Chimp has posted a most provocative interview with Elaine Meinel Supkis.  I’ve been meaning to write something about the dismantling of the post-WWII Bretton Woods agreement by Nixon in ‘71 when he discovered he couldn’t simultaneously maintain a stable world currency and conduct an expensive, losing war in Vietnam, and what his decision […]