Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Helicopter fishing ('They are fugn trippen son')

150 years of tropical storms mapped

...Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are all the same weather phenomenon - in the Atlantic and northeast Pacific the storms are called hurricanes, in northwest Pacific they are known as typhoons and in the south Pacific the term cyclone is used.
Nelson opted to focus the map on Antarctic partly because he is "sick of boring old rectangular projections".
"Hurricanes are a global phenomena and they skirt the equator, spinning off with the effects of prevailing winds and a rotating earth beneath. It turned out that a South Pole projection did the best job of illustrating that hula-hoop nature. Also I wanted to present it in a way that might inspire a bit of a double take. It looked trippy and did right by the data so I went with it."
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'The city is under siege. Sandy is pretty furious at Atlantic City. She must have lost a bet or something'

- Thomas Foley (Chief of emergency management in Atlantic City)
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GOP Women Party Hard (1941)

“On the evening of May 20,” begins an article in the June 16, 1941, issue of LIFE magazine, “members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Conn., explored the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other masculine enjoyments as had frequently cost them the evening companionship of husbands, sons and brothers.”
Thus the storied weekly and photographer Nina Leen chronicled the shenanigans that erupted when a group of GOP women got together for an old-fashioned “smoker” (noun: an informal social gathering for men only) on one long, memorable night in southern New England.
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Meanwhile GOP women of today come out with this crap!
(Thanx SJX!)