My favorite RSS feeds right now
- Pepys’ Diary is the diary of Samuel Pepys, who acted as a kind of Secretary of the King’s Navy. New entries are posted daily - today’s is from July 6, 1665. The plague started appearing in London during that month. It’s strangely and heavily hyperlinked to annotations and google maps, which appear with modern tube stations, but whose streets are pretty much the same 340 years later.
- FiveThirtyEight.com is a daily recap of all statewide presidential polls (as well as some national and senate polling). It’s well-written with a statistical bent. He weights each day’s polls by historical accuracy & age, running test elections 10,000 times to show a breakdown of all possible outcomes. No more “Newsweek says this, CBS says that.” He’s got Obama winning 308.9 to 229.1.
- Austin Kleon is a writer who draws.