Best. Halloween. Decorations. EVAH

I wondered whether this would drive the neighbors crazy. Maybe the lights would, but apparently the sound is broadcast so it is tuned through car radios. At any rate, it's absolutely delightful, and an object of wonder (and doubtless a helluva lot of work). The house owner says:

2011 Halloween Light Show -- This Is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
4 singing pumpkin faces, tombstones, hand carved pumpkins, strobes, floods and thousands of lights. Most all lights have been changed from incandescent to RGB LED so power consumption is a lot less than previous years. Also DMX added to show. All lights, faces and props are custom made (DIY) by me except for the roof line which are CCRs. Controlling channels have gone up 8X from last year. 1144 channels. Light-O-Rama. Riverside, CAM.

How economic inequality harms societies

"We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust."

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"I think the take home message..is that we can improve the real quality in human life by reducing the differences in income between us."

GNP per Capita isn't predictive. But income inequality is. Very persuasive.