A Magazine For Everything

I stopped by Asheville Park­ing Ser­vices today to renew my park­ing pass, and there on the wait­ing room table were all these mag­a­zines about, well, park­ing. Who woulda thunk?

 

If Sen­a­tor John McCain has way by defeat­ing the FCC’s move to sup­port Net Neu­tral­ity with his “Inter­net Free­dom Act”, this is what your Inter­net plan options could eas­ily look like:

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Say “good­bye” to expe­ri­enc­ing the World Wide Web as you know it, and say “hello” to expe­ri­enc­ing it as you do your cable TV, with restric­tions on what you get unless you want to pay more, and unless the con­tent providers pay more to be listed there.

As usual, the notion that a “gov­ern­ment takeover” and a “marx­ist plot” are being ban­tered around to gen­er­ate sup­port for McCain’s bill through fear and igno­rance. It goes with­out say­ing that McCain was the biggest ben­e­fi­ciary of  telco/ISP money in 2008, to the tune of $894,379.

Pic­ture cour­tesy of some quink at Red­dit.  Click the pic for the full-size image.

 

In 1994, Calvin predicted 2009.

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McDonald’s in the USA

This is a map rep­re­sent­ing the con­tigu­ous United States of Amer­ica, visu­al­ized by dis­tance to the near­est McDonald’s. Click it for a big­ger version.

McDonald's in the USA

The far­thest one can get from a McDonald’s in any direc­tion is a mere 145 miles.

Via.