Water fountain or bubbler? Lightning bug or firefly? Pop or soda? Take the linguistics test
A cool series of dialect maps of the US, and even small towns, tracking how we say the same thing differently.
The marriage equality map: Who loves us, who hates us, who’s oh so tepid…
Check out the # of Americans living in “gay marriage” states depending on various possible Sup. Ct. outcomes.
Cool interactive map shows every single American with a dot
Each dot represents a person in the 2010 US census, and 2011 Canadian census. There are 341,817,095 dots.



