Some linkery for Mid-January '09

Some stuff of varying degrees of interest across various fields:

David Reevely makes a case for not privatising public transit in Ottawa. I find myself unwilling to disagree, even in my present state of inconvenience due to the transit strike.

On the art of data presentation, thanks to coudal: A link to the growth of Wal-Mart across the United States from the 1960's to 2007.

According to the boss of LJ's former parent company, I'm already in competition with Facebook. And so are all of you. Interesting thought, that.

I'm still working on expanding my Flickr and Picasa galleries(links in the sidebars).

Speaking of Flickr, today, I just got greeted in "LOLSpeak". "LOLSpeak" is a language now? Isn't it still just a mutant dialect of English?

Gotham to Metropolis: 281 miles

As an amusement using Google Maps:

Per Faces of Evil: Solomon Grundy # 1. Excluding what I call the Busiek Planetary Inflation Factor, here's how you might make the trip, making certain assumptions about which city is located where.

A Little Milestone

Like a number of you on my LJ friendlist, I've got a presence on Facebook, too. Tonight, the "friendlist" there just reached 200 people.

That stopped me for a moment.

Two hundred people who, for their own reasons, consider my life and what I do with it to be worth their time and attention.

Something to be thankful for, that.