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There's at least 11.5 billion Channels and Nothin' On.
You could spend days, weeks, months on the internext and get nothing but super doo-doo crap.

Here's one that's not crap; www.style.org.

style.org is a service of 13pt, and is dedicated to the memory of Col. Stephen CraigMcCormick.

Style.org is a small collection of beautifully executed jokes, timewasters and some really subtle social commentary.
It has a political slant, but is more about presenting data in a nuanced way rather than grandstanding.
Are the authors liberal or conservative - who knows?

The thing that I most like about it is the consistent attention to detail that makes each piece worthwhile, even if the topic doesn't really draw you.

My favourite item (and pick for the best thing I've seen on the web this year) is the
State of the Union Parsing Tool
Sentence length and word incidence in George W. Bush’s State of the Union Addresses.

Here's a no-brainer; Iraq vs. economy - watch the spike around 2004.


A more subtle(but telling) one is family vs. terror.



It also has a nice option for comparing a variety of historical speeches by US Presidents.
Now if only they'd let you upload your own texts!


Other cool items include
Mapping Votes by County
County maps and the 2003 California Statewide Special Election















and Camp Delta
Nationalities of enemy combatants detained at Guantánamo Bay, the “legal equivalent of outer space.”











For scientific types there's things like
The Strouhal Number in Cruising Flight
Animals swimming or flying at cruising speed use similar ratios of stroke frequency and amplitude to forward speed.