One Guy and a Dream

Here’s a great infographic on some struggling European countries:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/02/weekinreview/02marsh.html

(via marginalrevolution)

Christopher Hitchens has a great analysis of Animal Farm, the mildly controversial (in some parts of the world) Orwell classic. I wish I had read this before reading the book, and may re-read it now with this in mind. Though it is clearly political, I didn’t realize how closely the characters related to real-world figures.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/17/christopher-hitchens-re-reads-animal-farm

(via kottke)

This definitely has a left-leaning bent, as you’d expect from the Huffington Post, but that doesn’t mean some of these signs aren’t funny. And my co-worker helped to create one of them:

?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/19/funniest-protest-signs-20_n_539696.html

I’m generally going to avoid putting news in this category, but I didn’t run into anything spectacular today and this was big enough to post:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/business/17goldman.html?pagewanted=all