Snow, In Celtics
February 4, 2011 –Blizzards keep socking New England, and now, you can put a Celtic spin on this season’s epic snowfall with the Boston Globe’s total-tracking Shaq-o-meter.
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Where The Streets Have Your Name
February 2, 2011 –Thirteen months ago, as the story goes, I went mappy. Quoth myself:
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Be Right Back
January 26, 2011 –Sooner or later, we all die of something, as National Geographic illustrates in their classic Ways To Go chart:
Them’s the overall statistics… however, I checked with Vegas, and if Yours Truly takes a dirt nap in the next coupla days, 4:1 odds it’s because of the flu.
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Trash Tracked
January 20, 2011 –Garbage has legs, and in Migration Of Receipts, designer Cameron Zotter maps the travels of 150 discarded sales slips found during a 48-hour canvas of downtown Baltimore. He also gives us some trash-tossing insight:
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Astro-Logical
January 19, 2011 –On Ophiuchus and the rest of the recent new Zodiac kerfuffle, I must call Bullshittarius: the astrological sign of the Red Herring. Why? Because David McCandless and friends have analyzed the text of 22,000 online horoscopes and found that they’re different permutations of the same few words, more or less.
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A Matter Of Seconds
January 14, 2011 –The fresh crop of redshirts? Damn it Jim, they’re too young to remember. But once upon a time, decades ago, Hollywood produced a particularly awful movie – and then walloped us with a don’t-miss follow-up installment that was truly worth watching.
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Shaken To The Foundations
January 11, 2011 –This past Saturday, as Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch flicked away the defense, sauntered 67 yards to the end zone, and clinched a playoff win, the fans went seismic. Under Qwest Field, sensors recorded the tremors,
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Maximal Attraction
January 10, 2011 –In his latest tromp through the fertile fields of human desire, Christian Rudder once again mines Okcupid’s huge database of online daters to discover that, for a woman looking to attract the most in male attention:
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