Victorian Info-graphics
Think that the info-graphic trend is a new thing? Think again. Here is a collection of some beautiful Victorian info-graphics including one beautiful topographic map of old New York.
Think that the info-graphic trend is a new thing? Think again. Here is a collection of some beautiful Victorian info-graphics including one beautiful topographic map of old New York.
Paul, an intern on Facebook’s data structure team took 10 million random pairs of friends and plotted their relationships on a map. The result is this beautiful world map pictured above. See it large after the jump.
Doug McCune builds mountains. He builds mountains with 2009 crime data from the city of San Francisco. Their height is related to how often the specific crime took place in an area. The mountains mapped above show the occurrences of Prostitution, which compared to Larceny and Assault looks like an easy hike.
In all fairness, we’re not saying San Francisco has a crime problem. It’s just the city that Doug used for his maps. We love San Francisco!
Via Boing Boing
If you haven’t seen this yet, you’re missing out. The daily data consumption of Americans nowadays is something I’d assume is astounding. Between Ashton’s Twitter updates, Southwest’s Ding! notifications, and random videos of people doing terrible gymnastics we consume a lot of stuff during the day. GOOD Blog’s graphic detailing this is pretty rad.
See the post here.
Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.
It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.
Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.
Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?
Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.
One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”
One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.
How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?
It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?
While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!
Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.
This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.
Darth Vader blows some hot air.
You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.
That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.
Hey Portland! Cheat Local!
Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.
It’s the cartoon color wheel.
What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?
If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.
Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.
I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.
Let’s all have a meat machine dance party!
Shredder wants you for the foot.