Need to watch your favorite European teams in DC? Check out these locations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/best-bets/best-soccer-bars,97954.html
The Washington Post had an article in “The Buzz” on a neat new site that shows/annotates pictures at different locations at different points in time. It’s called HistoryPin, and it’s a collaboration between Google and a UK based website. Check it out.
What was supposed to be a relatively straightforward testimony on health care costs turned interesting…
A good post at infosthetics on the debt clock for the United States. If you want to know what our current deficit is, how much the average person owes, and other interesting statistics, head on over to debtclock.org and take a look.
Source: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/04/us_debt_clock_all_the_relevant_statistics_in_real-time.html
The Space Shuttle program has come to an end. NASA decided where to “store” each of the four shuttles – luckily for me one of them is going to Udvar-Havy. Watch the 14 minute video on the space shuttle, narrated by William Shatner.
Mens Journal had a really good, comprehensive article on fitness. The header reads:
Gym machines are boring, CrossFit is sadistic, and dieting sucks. Luckily, none of them is essential to being truly fit. Through years of trial and error — and humiliation at the hands of some of the world’s top trainers — the author discovered the secrets to real health.
Source: http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness-is-a-lie/
From Infosthetics:
The latest contestant in this search for the best visualization
designer (or should I say, the next employee?) is Google, who,
together with Eyebeam, just announced their profound interest in both
federal tax numbers as well as interactive bubble graphs
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/02/google_releases_data_viz_challenge.html
From Flowing Data:
http://flowingdata.com/2011/03/07/test-your-rock-paper-scissors-strategy-against-the-machine/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/rock-paper-scissors.html
A great, great post if you want to see and visualize all of the dunks in the NBA slam dunk content since 1984. It’s a nice way to see how the contest has gotten so much worse over the years, although you don’t see all of the missed tries in recent years. (And there are a number of years with limited or no videos).
Hoopism via Flowing Data
I bought the Four Hour Body and it is a pretty interesting reference manual. There are some exercises and tests recommended for muscle imbalances, which I have many. The videos are combined into a single playlist: