Web Safari

Welcome to a new feature of this blog, which I am going to be calling "Web Safari." Each week, maybe more often, maybe less often, I will give you a list of interesting websites, articles, and posts that I have run across in the past few days. You can peruse them at your leisure. (I was going to call this feature "Peregrinations," but I decided that I didn't want to explain that the definition of peregrinate is travel every time I used the word.

1. Strange Maps This site is full of really cool maps shown in different ways. Some of my favorites:

• The United States showing names of countries with similar GDP's for each state.
• A Norwegian map painting.
  
• For the computer lovers - a map of the internet.
  

2. Infamous Sports Scandals (non-drug related)

3. Conservatives and the minimum wage. Also a map showing states with minimum wage above the federal minimum.

4. What does this say about evangelical churches?

5. For those of you that are interested in wading through the House version of the 2007 Farm Bill.

6. The worst fiction prose (excerpts) of 2007. Definitely painful reading. Enjoy!