NY Times – Coal Miner in China. I just thought this photo was stunning.

600 Club Gets a New Member – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com. A-Rod basically has the title for “youngest person to hit X home runs for everything” over 200.

Magazine Preview – Mariano Rivera, King of the Closers – NYTimes.com. yup, he’s a robot.

Advertising – Drinking Game Poses Query, Who’s ‘Icing’ Whom? – NYTimes.com. I’m amazed this is an article in the new york times.

Driving Shifts Into Reverse – NYTimes. 10,000 miles a year on average. that’s insane.

All the Obama 20-Somethings – NYTimes.com. basically sounds like Real World DC for Obama staffers

Building a Better Teacher – NYTimes.com. this is one long article. interesting stuff about the lack of training teacher’s receive.

Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com. an interesting visualization for the difference between first and last.

Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages – Video Feature – NYTimes.com. nice little video talking about the evolution of pictograms at the olympics.

36 hours in Vancouver – NYTimes.com. Vij’s & Rangoli are going to be so stupidly busy for the next 3 weeks. People line up there before the restaurant opens on a normal day let along during the olympics.

Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord – NYTimes.com. if you find yourself doing karaoke in manila, make sure you don’t sing “My Way”.

Conan O’Brien Says He Won’t Host ‘Tonight Show’ Following Leno – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com. “I sincerely believe that delaying the Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting”. oh snap.

A Peek Into Netflix Queues – NYTimes.com. Choose Seattle, and then check out movies like “Milk” and “Paul Blart : Mall Cop”.

As Hawaii’s Seas Roil, Surfers Await the Big One – NYTimes.com. it’s like the end of Point Break.

McCann Responds to ‘Mad Men’ – Media Decoder Blog. i guess this would be a spoiler if you haven’t watched Mad Men this season. A real agency that still exists today buys the fake agency on Mad Men. They put a video up on their website pointing this out.

The Jobless Rate for People Like You – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com. The worst off: black men ages 15 to 24 without a high school degree: 48.5%. The best off: white women ages 25 to 44 with a college degree: 3.6%

Maine Vote Is Focus of Gay-Marriage Fight – NYTimes.com. i recently had the pleasure of driving through the state of maine. it’s quite nice. as are equal rights.

Mets Fans Have Choice of Two Evils in World Series – NYTimes.com. “This, my friends, is Baseball Armageddon, there is no happy ending. The next two weeks are going to be the worst two weeks on earth.” ha.

The New Untouchables – NYTimes.com. it’s people who can hustle.

Aerial Bowfishers Take Aim at Invasive Silver Carp in Midair – NYTimes.com. if you can make it a sport, i’m confident an american will figure out how. the video is good cause the guy is such a hick.