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An interesting article from StrangeMaps about the possible relationship between cotton farming the current election’s Democratic vote.

The link between these two maps is not causal, but correlational, and the correlation is African-Americans. Once they were the slaves on whom the cotton economy had to rely for harvesting. Despite an outward migration towards the Northern cities, their settlement pattern now still closely corresponds to that of those days.

An asian ad agency [Bates 141] created a real-life photoshop mock-up.  Very funny.

via Laughing Squid

An interesting music video highlighting some of the tumultuous history of Detroit.  Good song too!

http://www.theduplex.tv/srbdetroit67/srbdetroit67_hi.html

My Dad recommended a great article on America’s food system:

In the end, shifting the American diet from a foundation of imported fossil fuel to local sunshine will require changes in our daily lives, which by now are deeply implicated in the economy and culture of fast, cheap and easy food. Making available more healthful and more sustainable food does not guarantee it will be eaten, much less appreciated or enjoyed.

As someone that’s trying to eat healthier every day, I found this to be an eye-opener.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors

Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching - that’s the quadrennial cliche, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true?

If you manage a large network of Mac OS X clients, the very helpful “Tips and Tricks” document by John DeTroye has been updated.  It now includes 10.5 client and server specific details.  In this day job, John works as a Sr. Consulting Engineer with Apple Education.

Website here.

PDF of the full document here.

I don’t manage quite this many clients in an enterprise environment, but it makes me wish I did.

http://themetation.com/2008/07/14/how-to-create-wordpress-themes-from-scratch-part-1/

I’m going to show you how to create a wordpress theme from scratch in these 3 parts of tutorial series. I will cover from Structuring, designing in Photoshop, slicing, coding into fully CSS based HTML, and finally wordpress implementation.

Since I’ve been considering a website redesign for a while, this seems like a particularly pertinent article.

Here’s a really good article on 64-bit / 32-bit RAM usage by Snow Leopard and PCs.

Required reading really for anyone in IT support.