This layered interactive map of NYC lets you turn layers on and off to compare different features. Be sure to click on upper Manhattan to zoom in where you can see the relative shapes of individual buildings.
Today’s reason: negative campaigns, stretching the truth.
The Washington Post steps up with this article discussing the strongest negative presidential campaign to date.
… Last Monday in Little Rock, Vice President Cheney said Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry “has questioned whether the war on terror is really a war at all” and said the senator from Massachusetts “promised to repeal most of the Bush tax cuts within his first 100 days in office.”
On Tuesday, President Bush’s campaign began airing an ad saying Kerry would scrap wiretaps that are needed to hunt terrorists.
The same day, the Bush campaign charged in a memo sent to reporters and through surrogates that Kerry wants to raise the gasoline tax by 50 cents.
On Wednesday and Thursday, as Kerry campaigned in Seattle, he was greeted by another Bush ad alleging that Kerry now opposes education changes that he supported in 2001.
The charges were all tough, serious — and wrong, or at least highly misleading. …
Not only is there a Garfield Movie, the Baha Men are doing the soundtrack.
Choose your own punchline:
1. Please shoot me now.
2. Warhol called. It’s 15 MINUTES, not 15 months
3. Best CGI since “The Day After Tomorrow”
At least it gives me a chance to link to the “Pearls Before Swine” thread that was killing me the last couple of weeks:
Print cut-and-tape models from Way of the Rodent’s Paper Arcade and build your own mini old-school arcade. Yes, I’m geeky enough to have printed Gravitar and Tempest out…