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No they do not.

That Boeing 737 that crashed in the Amazon last week crashed because it hit a smaller plane. Here’s the story from one of the smaller plane’s survivors. (Thanks Robert)

I loves me some information density. Check out Newsmap.

As described by the author:

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.

What does the Spanish-American War have to do with your phone bill? More that I realized, that’s for sure.

Learn all about murder in New York City. Did you know that one third of cases go unsolved? You have a one in three chance of getting away with it.