Thursday, March 19, 2009

27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis

Will charts help take the sting out of watching our mortgages, jobs, and 401(k)s spiral down the drain? Have a gander at
27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis and let me know.

via FlowingData

Friday, March 13, 2009

Periodic Table of Typefaces


More art than science—but definitely all geek—download the JPEG Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces from Squidspot.

via Lifehacker

Monday, March 2, 2009

A photo is worth a thousand...




tons of garbage.

What are we THINKING?

This amazing series is by artist Chris Jordan, of Seattle.

He calls it "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait."

As astonishing as his statistics are, what he has done with them is even
more astonishing.

via email forwarded to me by Connie Torii; courtesy of Karl K