Almost the last on this financial keystone cops caper. Here's a bunch of pictures where artists try and explain what happened, hopefully a little clearer than my explanations have been. I think GOOD Magazine's is pretty good.

27 visualizations and infographics to understand the financial crisis.

Over at Making Light, there's a picture of the Mars Pheonix lander as it's descending, taken from ANOTHER SPACESHIP.

NASA has the pic brightened to show Mars and the freaking PARACHUTE LINES.

Dude. DUDE.

From Matt Polly's blog"First it is very important when performing flying kicks in a suit that you wear the knee-length dress socks. Sure, they are less comfortable, but no one wants to see your pasty white calves. Second, always apply a little hair gel. It gets windy out there on Broadway and 44th, especially if your flying kicks are, like mine, ( Read more... )