Monthly Archives: July 2010

World Cup Infographic: The Rainbow of Champions says it’s Germany’s year

via Well, I suppose this is about as good a predictor as you could conjure. I dig it for the topicality and symmetry, but the quality that most defines this chart, I’d say, isapophenia, the tendency to see meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.

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A thing of beauty: Renault DeZir Concept

A very original sculpture from Renault. It is wonderfully bulbous, yet a balanced shape of convex and concave surfaces. The design blurs the distinction between sheet metal and grille, with the cheese grater-like piercings above the headlights and in the chrome side inlet. The stance is lithe, agile, and predatory but not domineering. The chrome [...]

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On the Street: ’51 Woody Country Squire

Not only a cherry, authentic woody, but the guy has a wood surfboard on the rack. A traveling time capsule, driving down the 101.

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Now thats wtf I call a car commercial.

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