Frontal Emergence
Month: May 2014
Memorial Day 2014
What Does Your State Google?
So Estately.com, an online home searching/shopping site, in an attempt to help you decide which state to choose for your next home, ran a Google Trends analysis to determine the most frequent internet search query subjects by state. Here are the results — ranging from hilarious to scary — in condensed graphical form:
And to learn more about Estately’s project and see more of the search terms they discovered, visit here:
And, of course, you can visit Google Trends yourself if you want to waste your time seeing how other people waste their time … (yes, we know that you have already wasted your time by visiting this blog).
Amazon.com Announces the Most Well-Read Cities in America
Yesterday, Amazon published its fourth annual list of the most well-read cities. Well, “well-read” is defined by Amazon in terms of its own sales. So we see places like Portland not on the list. Why? Is it because Portland has more independent bookstores than most other cities? I see that Seattle and Vancouver both rank. See the entire list here.
Road Rage
Under Water
Here are some speculative images to illustrate the effect of a twelve-foot sea level rise, including the impact on the Boardwalk area of Venice Beach, where I was living when I first got together with KAE.
Click for more here, in case you missed the link above.
Thanks to Dennis for bringing this site to our attention.
Charlie of the (Mother’s) Day
Starring Kim, Nik and Charlie …
A Lassie Kind of Story?
Kim reports that, early this morning, Charlie scratched at the patio door and when she let him in, he looked at her, walked inside, circled her and went back out, as though signalling her to follow. Whereupon he led her to a corner of the deck, where a very young bird was sprawled, apparently dazed from having accidentally flown into the enclosed area. So Kim picked up the bird, carried it out into the yard, and in a few seconds, it regained its composure and flew off.
More Springage
