Watch this, its hilarious!!

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/27/fox-parody/

Please, can anyone authenticate this clipping from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette?

Seriously, is Connie M. Miskimen so stupid to actually believe what she is saying? Or is this some elaborate satire?

And, more importantly, who is the op/ed editor that let this slip in? (I know: one that apparently can’t spell “warming”.)

h/t Lucy.

whoops this kinda snuck up on me.

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I just dropped my third interactive map. It is called streamViz, which is pretty stupid. But the map/visualization is awesome!– at least in my opinion (but then again, I’m biased). This gets more into geovisualization than cartography, and people in cartography like to argue about whether geovisualization is just a part of cartography or vice-versa. The assignment was to just map streamflow data for 3 months in 1993 (a big flood) but I have a hard time spending a lot of time on such a one-off map. So I decided to load in 10 years of daily data off the USGS website. StreamViz is so powerful — please do not use it for evil.

I followed a link somewhere to this article with the enticing title: 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid. I was disapointed to find a pretty typical list of “[e]ffect for affect,” “[l]ay for lie,”, &ct. (I did enjoy #10, where the author put ‘could of‘ users on the seat of shame; that one has always sounded particularly ignorant to me.)

There was, however one on the list that I’d never heard of before and If the author is correct, makes me look stupid:

Different than for different from
No: This setup is different than the one at the main office.
Yes: This setup is different from the one at the main office…

To me, the first sentence sounds fine and the second sounds, if not stupid, then a little bit more awkward, as if the comparison is less direct. This awkwardness becomes more apparent for me in shorter constructions (e.g. A is different from B). According to this entry in The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, In most contexts, most uses of ‘different than’ are probably fine, but their advice for formal and oratorical purposes: “stick with different from.” The gist of the argument is that traditionalists say that ‘than’ should always be used as a conjunction whereas most constructions using ‘different than’ are using than as a preposition.

What about you guys? where you familiar with this controversy? which sentence sounds better/more grammatically correct to you?

um, check president bushes numbers, 40% of the vote and he clearly won but fox news sits there and tells you he didn’t Denial is sweet.

Hey gang, here’s the second map I’ve produced for my animated and interactive cartography class. The assignment was to map like one variable over time, and presumably to have this variable hard-coded into the map. As you can/will see, I kind of went crazy on this assignment. If applicable, this map is the reason I have ignored your emails and failed to return your phone calls over the past two months.

There are two datasets available to be loaded right now, but in theory any dataset of Wisconsin counties could be loaded. There are a ton of things that could be fixed or added, but for now I have a bigger final project to worry about.