Country quiz, seven wonders, scams, txting

Here's a few items for the day:

• World geography quiz; a cool little test that I unfortunately did not do as well at as I'd hoped.
• The Seven Wonders of every US State, of the ones I looked at there are a lot of not so impressive wonders.
• Keep your eyes open for the top 10 scams of the year. I guess I take for granted that some of these scams would be obviously suspicious to most people, but apparently a lot of money is lost to them.
• Text messaging blamed for bad English. I'm totally fine with texting where appropriate, but I think it is disappointing that people can't write more formally, IMHO.
  

Tolerance, maps, polls

Happy November to you!

I ran across this interesting site recently, Tolerance.org's Active Hate Groups Map. It lets you see the locations of known hate organizations in the US. Interesting, but sad. It is especially sad to see the sheer number of active groups around. With as much education and information that is out there today, it is still shocking that people here in the US can hold such hateful opinions of other people for cultural, religious, racial, or historical differences.

Regardless of the content, the Hate Group Map is a good use of map technology on the web. A recent Lifehacker post lists the top ten (non-Google) map innovations. While I am not a hardcore map nut, I do like to check out map technologies and mashups occasionally. I also do like the Flickr geotagging feature quite a bit.

And another good map use for the link of the day:

Pollster.com - See the latest political poll results on a map. A great way to see the standing of current races.

Check it out and then remember to vote on November 7th!