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• Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg
  Excellent map of all US counties showing predominant ethnic background
  (tags: demographics ancestry maps statistics)

• 88 Topps Cards: pirates
  A blog dedicated to the 1988 Topps baseball cards! I had so many of these cards - and so many Vincente Palacios extras ....
  (tags: baseball collecting nostalgia)
• ZAHA HADID: THE FIRST GREAT FEMALE ARCHITECT | More Intelligent Life
  Jonathan Meades on Zaha Hadid.
  (tags: meades architecture)

• Look At the State Youre In: Absaroka « Strange Maps
  About the state Absaroka that tried to secede from the US, maybe.
  (tags: micronations maps america weird 1930s)

Today Slate's got an excellent Venn diagram of Bush Administration scandals so you can see who exactly might be prosecuted for what. Of course it doesn't cover all of the scandals (I'm not sure that would be possible to represent in 2-dimensional space) but it's a nice start. Though I'm sure these fuckers will escape any sort of punishment for their crimes, it's at least nice to dream of...

• Too Weird for The Wire - Kevin Carey
  "How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds."
  (tags: the_wire crime law conspiracy)
• China Miéville's top 10 weird fiction books
  Nothing too exciting (I couldnt get through 'Gormenghast' in grad school) but might be a few things to check out.
  (tags: literature lists)
• Ulrich Lebeuf
  "Un train pour...

kottke.org linked to this list of popular Boat names today:

Most popular sailboat names

1. Orion
2. Zephyr
3. Stargazer
4. Free Spirit
5. TBD
6. Cheers
7. Mariah
8. Solitude
9. Sandpiper
10. Calypso
11. Banana Wind
12. MoonDance
13. PATRIOT
14. Mental Floss
15. valhalla

We here at icewhistle.com take boat names very seriously, and felt the need to not just reBlog this but to specifically post it...