Jobs: Are they back?

One of my favorite places to slack off online is Slate.com. It's a great online magazine that has interesting articles on politics, television, technology, etc. But one of the things that really separates it from other online magazines (I'm looking at you Salon.com) is it's ability to showcase large ideas in neat infographics. 


Case-in-point, Slate unveiled a map that shows gains/losses of jobs in each county across the United States every month. The map is animated and progresses from January 2007 to August 2010, showing the beginning of the depression recession, until today. The results of the economic meltdown is as clear as day as the country starts bleeding red and then slowly starts to stop (maybe the stimulus actually did help?).


Slate's ability to aggregate information and present it in an easy way helps me actually sound somewhat intelligent when I talk to people about serious matters. Only somewhat though. Slate also has all those fun complete time wasters, like a video review of PediPaws.