See The Smiths’ Discography As A Transit Map
Wow, this is beautiful. Via Proof Spirit.
Wow, this is beautiful. Via Proof Spirit.
The U.S. is basically an overcompensating, attention-seeking brat.
Data visualizations. Infographics. Maps. Information design. No matter how you call it, 2012 was the year data science and design started going steady.
The dictatorship, which has nuclear weapons, tested a ballistic missile Tuesday night. AFP’s John Saeki’s chilling graphic shows not just China and Japan, but countries as far as the Philippines and beyond, within range.
Really beautiful work by Jenni Sparks. (via thisisnthappiness.com)
It’s missing North Carolina and Colorado.Paging the Obama campaign.
Redditor The310Investigator made this awesome map by painstakingly superimposing images of the world’s currencies onto the countries in which they’re used. (via reddit.com)
A Russian developer plotted the 350,000 biggest sites on the web, by traffic, links and nationality. It’s full of stars!
William Blum at Foreign Policy Journal put together this handy guide to the C.I.A.’s foreign policy efforts since the end of World War II.
Were they talking about the cargo terror plot in this meeting on January 31st?
Well, that’s certainly some perspective. London is so tiny in comparison.
Do people want to live in your home town? Or your adopted home town? See for yourself.
The farthest distance between any two locations nationwide is 145 miles, from Meadow Valley to Glad Valley in South Dakota. And that’s just criminal.
According to CNN, Cannes is located somewhere in northern Spain.
Artist Richard Morden imagines the supercontinent Pangaea.
Adult film outfit Pink Visual has plans to build a bunker in case the Mayans were right about 2012. This way, those post-apocalyptic survivors will still have porn to keep them company instead of cockroaches. Bless you, Pink Visual. View Image ›
Because LOTR fans should pay more attention to the female form. $100 at Black Milk Clothing. View Image ›
Methinks Alaska and Hawaii are tired of being left out. (Via) View Image ›
Interesting infographic breaking down the nationalities of villains in military-themed video games. China is quickly becoming the global boogeyman of choice. And apparently developers don’t find New Zealand very threatening. View Image ›
We do some things well!
There is no South American Disney Princess. They need to get on that. View Image ›
A map showing what food best represents each state, relying strictly on stereotype rather than any cartographic surveying. To be fair, Utah does love green Jell-o. View Image ›
Massive and detailed dialect map of North America.
An interactive map that charts the brutal landscape of metal music, where you can listen to tracks ranging from punk to black metal to grunge. It’s incredibly thorough and easy to use. Here there be monsters of rock. View Image ›
All those complicated music metaphors have been simplified into the perfect chart. View Image ›
A map in California’s Main Street Railroad Station reveals the state’s racist secrets. (via) View Image ›
Made as a gift for Flickr user theindigobunting’s 3 year old nephew who loves New York subway maps. The custom map has all the toddler’s favorite spots. View Image ›
This cool map shows the regional differences between people to say “ya’ll” and people who say “you” — along with those who say “you all” and “you guys”. While I find it kind of strange that the only state to say “you” is grammatically-challenged Rhode Island, they’ve also left out the essential “youz” or “youz all” which exists exclusively on Long Island. View Image ›