Monthly Archives: March 2010

Infographic of the Week: Why Infographics are so great!

via leblogdebango.fr Ah, we have now come full-circle with the meta-infographic. Bliss…

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WHERE’S THE MONEY GEORGE ?

via Miss Info Ah – a beautiful and worthy re-appearance of one of my literally all-time-favorite TV commercial characters – the puppet Flat Eric – who I first came to know in an old Levi’s commercial:

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Is the rage about Health Care, or is about something else?

Frank Rich in the Times: If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same surge of fear. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful [...]

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Sunday morning @ Trader Joe’s, SF

Outback, Outback, Outback.

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Infographic of the Week: Visualization of location-logging mobile apps at SXSW

via MG @ TC This animated visualization of location check-ins over 6 days of the South X Southwest conference in Austin last week is lots of fun. It shows which location-aware apps are logging the most traffic (foursquare and Gowalla, by far), and is a pretty neat heat map for where and when people are [...]

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Infographic of the Year Nominee: Flickr Color Flow

via hint.fm Just stunning. Check the link for the full image, plus the story and meaning behind it. This type of info visualization is less about data, per se, and more about telling a story – in this case, the ‘relative proportion of different colors seen in photos’ on Flickr, over the course of the [...]

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The diameter of the universe is 1.4 hellameters

(9144 KB) Watch on posterous Best. News Report. Ever. If someone says that’s ‘hella meters’ you know exactly what they’re talking about. 

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