Sunday B.S. – Fun stuff, clever stuff stats stuff, and a little bit of stupidity
Brilliant Stuff for Sunday, January 20, 2008:
WebSite: Inner Child Brain Modification - Tips and tricks to help you tap into those inner recesses of your mind where your inner child lives. Very childish and cool!
Picture: Someone went to a lot of trouble to line up the images on the backs of 5, 10, 20, and 50 dollar bills with the buildings themselves. Hard to explain here but really cool. Just go see it for yourself!
Tool: A database of census information by zip code. You can enter your own and see how close you are to average. You can also compare the stats side by side for different zip codes. Zip Skinny.
And now, for the Anti-Brilliant: This is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen in my life. I wonder if any of these people are still alive! Click here to be amazed by innovative stupidity in action. Definitely not-so-brilliant!
Madison County Covered Bridges
Filed under: Art, Charlie, Iowa, digital image manipulation, photography
Charlie and I went to Madison County today. They were having their annual “Bridge Fest.” There were about 1.7 Million people there, though, and nowhere to park. So we just went to the nearby countryside and drove around and saw cows and farms and covered bridges and things.
Additionally, a photographer from the Des Moines Register was at one of the covered bridges and took a picture of Charlie and me candidly. Afterward, she asked our names and said our picture may be in tomorrow’s Register or in the West Des Moines Register that gets delivered to our mailbox once a week. That was kind of cool.
Here are the pics I took, anyway:
