Stats; Effeneff; Cuantos; Tessellations

A few weekend things:

• Stats.org has a lot of insight of all those things you read in the news that get you all worked up. Excerpt: Since its founding in 1994, the non-profit, non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) has become a much-valued resource on the use and abuse of science and statistics in the media. Our goals are to correct scientific misinformation in the media resulting from bad science, politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge; and to act as a resource for journalists and policy makers on major scientific issues and controversies.

• I really like this Fellini / Eminem mash-up. Something about it just works. They also did an 8 1/2 homage on the Meltdown episodes of The Newsroom, which I recently watched and enjoyed very much (I'm almost done with the second season on DVD).

• Attn. amateur Spanish speakers: Beware of this faux pas. I knew this well-meaning old guy with kind of a thick southern accent who was trying to talk to some Mexican kids and ended up asking them this same question.
• Here's a cool site about tessellations. Here's another.