Andrew over at Information Aesthetics recently posted about a very funny flickr set of graphs that represent song lyrics. Definitely worth a look.

With the President’s approval rating not going anywhere, it seems appropriate to ask why? Thanks to the folks at needfornews.com I have my answer in the form of “ The 50 Dumbest Things George W. Bush Has Ever Said - NeedForNews.com.”

My favorite will always be #6: “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on –shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” –Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002.

Here’s the corresponding video.

Someone over at the Atlanta Center for Public Policy has seen the amazing! It’s an actual representation of the start of the universe…on a piece of toast!

I never thought I would live to see this day.

I wonder how much it will go for on eBay?

My sister in law sent me this cartoon (click on it to see the full size version ).

DigYourOwnGrave videos has a great cartoon about the Kübler-Ross model of coping with tragedy. Certainly more entertaining than reading the chapter about it for the psych students out there!

They don’t have a way to post the video here so here’s the youtube version.

And for those of you too lazy to click on the wikipedia link above, here are the 5 stages:
“The stages are:

1) Denial: The initial stage: “It can’t be happening.?
2) Anger: “Why me? It’s not fair.”
3) Bargaining: “Just let me live to see my children graduate.”
4) Depression: “I’m so sad, why bother with anything?”
5) Acceptance: “It’s going to be OK.”" (source: wikipedia)