The Off Topic Topic

[derspiess]

How rude.

Seriously.  Those refugees should get their own damned rides.  Or at least chip in some gas money.

[Josquius]

This is cool:



Any idea on the meaning?

[spoiler]5% of the world's population in blue, 5% of the world's population in red[/spoiler]

[Admiral Yi]

Countries who's names sound closest to "Bangladesh."

[The Brain]

Results of gerrymandering?

[Valmy]

Results of gerrymandering?

THat is one heck of an electoral district.

'I represent the people of the empty places of five continents and their old fashioned common sense values.'

[celedhring]

That map goes a bit too far in just selecting the emptiest places on Earth for the blue zone.

[Grey Fox]

You can cut 90% of the Canadian blue & still get 5% of the world population.

[Josquius]

The more succient version is the India-China circle.
But this one is new.

[alfred russel]

That map goes a bit too far in just selecting the emptiest places on Earth for the blue zone.

It will blow the mind of people that don't know about Canada being cold, Siberia, the Sahara Desert, the Amazon rainforest, and the Namib desert.

[Malthus]

That map goes a bit too far in just selecting the emptiest places on Earth for the blue zone.

It is also using a map projection that makes places in the far north look unnaturally huge compared to places on the equator.   

[lustindarkness]

Map sucks.

[Valmy]

I never did understand why Greenland was not it's own continent being so much larger than South America or Australia.

[Liep]

I never did understand why Greenland was not it's own continent being so much larger than South America or Australia.

They kill too many whales, the Internet would go crazy if we gave them that title.

[Duque de Bragança]

I never did understand why Greenland was not it's own continent being so much larger than South America or Australia.

Mercator lied to you about its size.

[Ideologue]

Amazing story of two green activist ships chasing an illegal poacher throughout the southern hemisphere. It's quite the tale.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/a-renegade-trawler-hunted-for-10000-miles-by-vigilantes.html?mabReward=A5&moduleDetail=recommendations-0&action=click&contentCollection=Politics&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

I have no idea that Chilean sea bass is supposed to be that good.  I'll check it out next time I see it on the menu.

I've had it.  It's bland.