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2014 was a good year for me and my family. Here are a few of the reasons I’m thankful:

There was so much to be thankful for in 2014, and so much more to look forward to in 2015. I can’t wait to find out what exciting new adventures will make this new year special.

Last night, I read throught the entire archive of the Tumblr, Deep Dark Fears. The premise of the site is simple. Visitors can anonymously submit their deepest, darkest fears, and the site’s creator, Fran Krause, will then illustrate them as a short comic.

Some of the entries are funny. Some are morbid. Some come as a relief—because they let me know there is someone else in the world with the same weird fears as me.

When the only tool you have is a bottle opener, every problem looks like a beer.

Parable of the Polygons - a playable post on the shape of society.

Jacob O’Neal makes animated infographics on his site, Animagraffs, that show how things work. A recent one that caught my attention shows how loud speakers work.

Below is an example of part of the Animagraffs on speakers, but you need to see the full sequence to appreciate how he breaks down the complex technical processes into a visual learning experience.

This is how us dads stay in shape. (via artofmainliness.com)

Well, this is depressing. I used to think I was one of the young ones, but it turn out I’m older than 51% of the world’s population, according to data from Population.io. I still have a ways to go before I’m older than half the people in the United States, and I live in Florida, so I’ve got that going for me too.

Population.io is a data visualization project that takes demographic and population data from a variety of sources to present personalized graphs. Here’s how the project’s creators describe it.

I upgraded the wall art in the boys’ bedroom this afternoon with some additional classic comic book covers.

This map would have made it much easier to get through Inferno.

I’m a sucker for year-end-reviews of everything. These collections of news photos from Buzzfeed and Reuters show that 2014 was a rough year all around the world, so bring on 2015.

Phil Noto drew two cover concepts for the upcoming movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, based on the recently released trailer.

The trailer for the new Jurassic Park movie came out yesterday. It looks like a promising summer blockbuster. While there is little chance it will live up to magic of the original, the previous sequels left a low enough bar for this one to easily surpass.

Even without a Michael Crichton novel to draw from, the writers of the movie came up with a great premise: despite the previous disasters on the island, the park is completed and opened to the public. It features various dinosaur attractions that follow the familiar motifs of Disney Land and Sea World. However, things go wrong when a genetic hybrid dinosaur escapes. Tim Siedell has high hopes for the genetically modified monster.

I’m feeling sharp today in my new argyle Batman dress socks.

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This is the most incredible music video. I don’t know how I managed to go so long without watching it. It was all over the web a couple of weeks ago, and I had saved it to watch later, not knowing that I should have been watching it on repeat from that moment forward.

I especially liked the nod to Citizen Kane at the end.

If you’re struggling to come up with something new to serve this Thanksgiving, the New York Times has you covered with recipes for dishes from every State. I’m interested in trying Florida’s Mojo Turkey.

Florida’s cuisine ranges from the deep Southern cooking of the humid, citrus-scented central and northern parts of the state to the more Caribbean-inflected cuisine of the marshy lowlands of Miami and the Keys. Here, the turkey nods to what happened when Cuban culture drifted onto the Thanksgiving tables of South Florida, with a bird dressed in a marinade of sour oranges (a mixture of orange and lime juice works as well) mixed with a lot of garlic and oregano. Serve the bird with black beans and white rice on the side — and a Key lime pie for dessert.</blockquote>

You can fit a lot of bikes in a single parking spot built for cars. This bike rack by Peter Murray conveys a clear message about inner city parking. (via Swissmiss)

There was a very strange cloud formation in the sky earlier this morning. It was a evenly spaced,  17x6 grid of small wispy clouds. It dissipated about 5 minuets after I noticed it. There were no planes in the sky at the time. I have no idea what could have caused it. Any ideas?