Jenna Jameson meets Ariana Huffington...

[proggrrl]

Well my friends, my home net connection has been down since Sunday, and just got back up last night.  *glee*  This has put a serious crimp in my massive braindump of comicon fallout to y'all.  Please indulge me over the next week or so while I dump massive amounts of (possibly old news) on you.

For now all I have is a tidbit of randomness: I was reading this inty with Richard Kelly about SOUTHLAND TALES, and suddenly realized that the new teaser poster unveiled at SDCC includes a fascinating cartogram that was much studied and discussed in the US just after the 2004 Presidential election.  That makes the poster all the more nifty, eh.

And: don't buy drinking water, it is unnecessary and un-sustainable.  Get yourself a reusable bottle and drink tap.

Comments

[nebakanezer]

the state of Rhode Island, with its 1.1 million inhabitants, would appear about twice the size of Wyoming, which has half a million, even though Wyoming has 60 times the acreage of Rhode Island.

YAY cartograms!!! :) Seriously though, very cool and yes it does make the poster all that much more cool. (though it was still really neat before I knew that)

Didn't I hear somewhere that NY was banning plastic water bottles? I don't remember where I heard that. I refill mine using tap water. Yay me! :D

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah that cartogram made me feel both better, and WORSE, back in Nov 04. Sigh.

NYC has banned smoking and trans-fats...but I don't think they could ban plastic, realistically.