GOODSTUFF'S BLOGGING MAGAZINE (89th Issue)

A special Thanksgiving issue brought to you by the committee to bring back bouncing boobs. Also, at no extra cost, Politicians that like to squeeze imaginary boobs!

It’s not that we want to look at your cleavage. It’s that we really, really want to look at your cleavage. We know we shouldn't  but we can’t help it, it’s like telling a woman to not look at shoes, chocolate cake, or her own ass in the mirror.

This video explains why guys like cleavage 

It’s True! Politicians Like To Squeeze Imaginary Boobs 

It seems that it is fairly common for politicians to mimic “squeezing boobs” with their elaborate hand gestures during speeches as seen here.

Sarah Palin just will not go away

What the American political voting distribution really looks like

This blended map with a population density overlay. Because what really stands out is how red the nation seems to be when you do not take the voting population into account; when you do so many of those vast red mid-west blocks fade into pale pink and lavender (very low population).

The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps

A new map was created using Mark Newman’s blended voting map based on the actual numbers of votes for each party overlaid with population maps from Texas Tech University and other sources. 

The changing colors of America (1960-2008)

by Robert J. Vanderbei

Robot Hookers 

Chivalrous, 

A gentleman offers his lady friend his jacket to stay warm.

Is having sex with an ultra-realistic robot hooker cheating?

Everything You Need To Know About The David Petraeus Scandal In One Chart
Petraeus and Broadwell Used Their Counter terrorism Expertise to Hide Their Affair
Bouncing Cleavage part 1

This is what I call GOODSTUFF

Bouncing Boobs part 2

 The Concept of Innocence   

The Gnarliest Waves Ever Ridden

 Jefferson Starship - Winds of Change  
Scorpions - Wind Of Change 

There are heaps of things we don’t know about the first Thanksgiving.  There are only two primary sources about what really went down — a letter carried back to England on a ship that was attacked by pirates (but eventually the letter was published), and a first-hand account written 20 years after the feast that was stolen by looters during the revolutionary war, but reappeared in the 19th Century.

The Best Moments Of Thanksgiving

 No one gets laid on ThanksgivingWhy Thanksgiving Sucks

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GOODSTUFF'S BLOGGING MAGAZINE (87th Issue)

Since the last issue there were two major events that excited Bathymetric Mappers. The first was the Hawaiian Tsunami Warning and a course the hurricane Sandy. Cartography is still an art and science. Back in the day, "art" was used to compensate for the lack of data. Modern maps use "art" to make complex concepts easy to understand.

"Good maps" answer most "on topic" questions with a single glance. Computers, GIS databases and mapping software have greatly increase the number of "good maps" and could be considered art...

 Earthquakes, Landslides and Volcanoes

All three can cause a tsunami!

My good friend Cash lives in Hawaii Kai and maps are essential in understanding the timing and danger areas during tsunami threats.

This animation shows how RIFT predicts the behavior of a tsunami over a period of 48 hours following the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku, Japan earthquake. Check out the upwelling off the South American coast one minute into the simulation 

Simulation of the Indian Ocean Boxing Day 2004 tsunami The non-circular wave-fronts are clearly visible, which indicates curved rays (second 12)

Tides Malaka Straights (built by GOODSTUFF)

SOME kO0l ANIMATION STUFF

Tides New Zealand  Nordic Tides

 Dynamic Ocean Topography 

HURRICANE TRACKER using Google Maps

Good Weather map for America

Normal Wind pattern for September. There is no influence from any one storm (wind maps)

This  map shows Hurricane Sandy as a Category 1 with top wind speeds of 90 mph. The eye of the storm is off the coast of Virginia and Maryland.

For comparison to the image above, here are two other GIFs of other days. The first shows Hurricane Isaac, the other Tropical Storm Debby. (H/T The Atlantic)

GIS-generated image of the New York-New Jersey Upper Bay, with merged bathymetric and topographic datasets. The vertical scale is exaggerated by a factor of ten.

In an age when we are mapping the surfaces of Venus and Mars, it is difficult to believe that so little is known about our own planet. We know more about the moon than we do about the bottom of the oceans.

The Hudson Canyon is still somewhat an ocean wilderness right in the backyard of the largest metropolitan area on earth, New York

Cartography is still a art and science. Lots of new methods and ideas that is marrying more than a few branches of bathymetries

The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data. The fact that there are blank spots between each of these lines is a sign of how little we really know about the world's oceans.

Some examples of OUTSTANDING maps

Google rolls out underwater maps

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