Liberal rag ‘The Economist’ endorses Obama for president

Laments, as I’m sure does he by now, the Palin pick and wonders what could have been if only the real McCain had been running.

Flickr reverse-geocoded a bunch of photos to create a bunch of GIS-like shape files

This is ridiculous cool - using people’s photos, they’ve created freely available shape files that works from the neighborhood level to the continent.

Have a sexy Halloween

What kind of odds could you have gotten in 1908 that a black dude would get elected president before the Cubs won the Series again?

—Nate Silver, of fivethirtyeight.com

Stuff journalists like

Simpsons do Mad Men

[via livejamie]

The unfinished swan looks gorgeous

Carol Blymire finishes the French Laundry at home

Incredibly well written journey through the French Laundry cookbook, she’s now moved on to Alinea

Crunking Crumping you can believe in (my thanks to Mike Davidson for correcting my hip urban lingo)