Where You've Seen Her: Anna Paquin is an oscar winning actress whose turned into a pretty hot and talented babe.  She got her start getting that oscar in The Piano, and then was in that really bad Jeff Daniels movie about helping geese, and then X-Men, where she didn't really do anything.  She's now the star of True Blood which is into it's second season.

 

Pointless Quote: "If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow."

 

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We found these photos on a blog called I hate my parents, but they seem pretty awesome to us. All kids should be this entertaining.

 

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God bless The Sun—the most reliable, serious, and solid newspaper in the entire Commonwealth—because they have just discovered the Loch Ness monster using Google Earth. Or at least, that's what it appears to be in the photo.

According to the lighthouse of journalism and one of its experts—reader and security guard Jason Cooke, 25, of Nottingham—this is it. The real monster. Jason's scientific description leaves no room for doubt:

I couldn't believe it. It's just like the descriptions of Nessie.

But if that white thing is the Loch Ness monster, what are the blue thingies next to it? The top one seems like a giant snake. The lower one... I think the lower one may be a Loch Ness monster's monster poop. And the snake is pissed off because it hates floaters, so it's running away. For shame! [The Sun]

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There's no accounting for terrible fate and random events, but The Daily Beast wants you to see how major and regional airlines rank in accidents and incidents. It's worth a peek before booking your next flight.

Rudy Maxa ranked, charted, and broke down data from 10 major air carriers using data from Airline-safety-records.com, which itself pulls data regularly from the Federal Aviation Administration, National Transportation Safety Board, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Then he did the same for about 25 prominent regional carriers, the smaller airlines usually contracted by the bigger guys to connect passengers between smaller cities.

Maxa's charts reveal some interesting factoids—like how passengers seated near a plane's tail are 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows. More interesting, or perhaps disheartening, are the statistics on regional operators, which have

[Regional carriers have] an accidents and incidents rate more than twice as high as the national carriers. "In the industry, one of the biggest concerns are the regional operators," says Jim Asker, the managing editor of the trade magazine Aviation Week. Among those The Daily Beast measured, several smaller airlines had perfect safety records, while Midwest (based in Milwaukee and now a subsidiary of Republic Airlines, which has won an auction to acquire Frontier Airlines) had the worst.

Hit the link for a full helping of charts and analysis, and tell us what safety factors you consider when you're arranging air travel in the comments.

How Safe Is Your Airline? [The Daily Beast]

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 A few months ago, we posted a handy equation to help you figure out how white trash your city is.  We didn't want to overlook all the ghetto cities out there, though,  so we came up with The Ghetto Formula, to help you determine how ghetto your city is:

 

The Procedure

It's important that ghetto stats for all test cities be collected from the same sources, in order to maintain some level of consistency:

 

# of Cash Advance Stores

This should be obtained from a Google Maps search of "Cash Advance", along with your zip code.  Then scroll to the bottom of the results column and use the total number of search results, which will be a grey number that says "(#) Results".

 

# of Long John Silver's Restaurants

Utilize the same technique used above.  Search Google Maps for "Long John Silvers" and your zip code, and use the Total Search results number, located at the bottom of the results column. 

 

# of Government Housing Projects

Do a Google Maps search of "Government Housing" with your zip code, then use the Total Search results number, located at the bottom of the results column.

 

# of Pawn Shops

To find the number of Pawn Shops in your town, use the pawn shop locator, which can be found here.  Type in your zip code, and use the total results number.

 

# of Car Thefts per Year

This number can be obtained from crime statistics, which can be found  here. Find your city on the list, double click, then locate the car thefts statistics that the site provides.

 

Population

Population is probably the most important ghetto stat in the entire formula, because a city's true ghetto-ness must be determined on a per capita basis.  Pull population statistics from Wikipedia by searching the city name, and then using the "Population of Metro Area" number, located in the right-hand column of the page.

 

Preliminary Tests:

 

 

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