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Gay marriage in Iowa

Check out what the Des Moines Register is doing today, the first day gay couples can legally marry in Iowa. Pretty cool use of public records (yes, Hamilton County, they are public) for a visually…


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Dam transparency

It was a good day for journos when President Obama declared he was in favor of transparency in government, and issued the memo instructing bureaucrats to, when in doubt, go ahead and release the data….


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Kanawha we hardly new ye

Saw this post the other day on Strange Maps, a great site for the cartographically inclined. The map is dated prior to Dec. 1861, when part of what is now West Virginia (where I was…