Mother’s Day, as celebrated here on my home planet.

Call your mother!

If evenly divided, the $787 billion stimulus package could make everyone in South Dakota a millionaire.  (They’d each get $978,619.59, actually).
There are more Californians (36.76 million) than there are Canadians (33.56 million) plus Alaskans (686,000) combined.  There are also more Californians than there were Americans at the time the Civil War broke out (31,443,321 in [...]

What is up with this?

It looks like Krang in a top hat.  Or a lepidopterist with a profusion of goiters.  Gah.

The Cocos Islands:

I love it!  Way to go, Australia.  The palm reminds me of the James Bond intro, for no reason.  But from a graphic design perspective, this is a disaster.  It’s cluttered and it looks like Islam is coming to eat the Southern Cross.  Great color scheme, though.
St. Pierre and Miquleon:

Talk about clutter.  For [...]

I started reading Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon, which opens during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and it made me think of where I would have wanted to be living–if I were some sort of immortal being–from that time through the end of the twentieth century. The four criteria would be witnessing history in [...]