Here is a 2004 presidential candidate selector. Apparently the candidate most in agreement with my views is Dean, although several other Democrats followed closely behind. The only candidates I disagree with more than Bush are the candidates for the Natural Law Party and the Constitution Party. This questionnaire doesn’t take “soft power” into account though — personality, political skill, temperament, et cetera — all those little things that can make or break a presidency.

I’ve been advised that there’s a Jersey City blog. Check it out. The author also has a topic index, with links to the author’s writings about Brooklyn, Jersey City, and a few hipsterish and intellectual topics. It’s worth browsing through.

This is fascinating: a logarithmic map of the universe, moving outward from the center of the Earth all the way past the Big Bang, where space and time converge.

Even more mind-blowing than that is a logarithmic timeline of the universe.

(Here’s a simple explanation of the logarithmic scale.)

I love stuff like this.

[Note: a few hours after posting this entry, I read an essay about the map in Tuesday’s New York Times. More good stuff.]