Geography Quiz

This is a list or random geography facts that were run into by the travel writers at sfgate.com.
A lot of them are quite obscure, which makes it even more interesting. And inevitably I get drawn in and do even more research on things I run across.

I really enjoy these kinds of random questions that get you thinking about geography.

Here's a list of 50 geography questions and their answers.

Weird Architecture

My step-mother sent me this interesting website with lots of pictures of strange architecture. There's some really cool buildings out there.

Here's more if you liked what you saw.

And here's a website dedicated to unusual architecture.

Flight of the Conchords, Season 2 Episode 1 available now!

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/?p=7538

I haven't had a chance to watch it yet.

The Flip of a Coin Might Decide MN Senate Race, Seriously

I just finished reading this great article about the obscenely close Senate race in Minnesota. How close of a race is it? Well, a "few thousandths of a percent separate" the candidates. To those non-math types out there, that's the difference of 200 votes with almost 3 million votes cast. It's really freakin close.

The most interesting part of this is that according to MN electoral law, if the vote is still statistically tied after finishing their recounts, they'll decide the race with the flip of a coin. This is totally serious. It sure doesn't sound very sophisticated.

In other news, this is why you don't post embarrassing pictures of people you like on facebook or any other social networking sites. The worst part is that sometimes you can't control what your friends do. In case you don't want to click through, it was a picture of Obama's Directory of Speech Writing groping a cardboard cut out of the new Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton at a party. I think it's actually sort of funny.