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The Way To Play

The Way To Play

December 10, 2010

Win friends, influence people, find inspiration for your next quilt, and trounce trained chickens with XKCD’s sweet recursive diagrams of Optimal Tic-Tac-Toe Moves.

Trains Of Planes

Trains Of Planes

December 9, 2010

GE Aviation visualizes airport takeoffs and approaches as trains of planes in their must-see promotional video Paths Of Flight:

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Rough Around The Edges

Rough Around The Edges

December 8, 2010

A Google Map of the active foreclosures encircling Las Vegas, Nevada – the desert epicenter of the real estate implosion – December 8, 2010:

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The Bubble For Dummies

The Bubble For Dummies

December 7, 2010

When irrational overexuberance goes up, it must come down, as Denis van Waerebeke explains in his SimCity-style animation Ecoland Bubble Story:

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Got Superhero?

Got Superhero?

December 3, 2010

This blog originates from coastal California – Earthquake Country – where, without warning, the ground could split open and swallow us whole. And that’s not all, as sci-fi site io9 illustrates in their map of Disaster Hot Zones Of The World.

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Bunker Down

Bunker Down

December 2, 2010

Problem: You painted a Day-Glo bulls-eye on your forehead and pissed off the world’s dominant military superpower.

Solution: Take a play out of their book – and go NORAD with your data!

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Mind The Gaps

Mind The Gaps

December 1, 2010

Hans Rosling, the effervescent researcher behind the Gap Minder project, has a reputation for energetic presentations. On occasion, he’s known to swallow a sword… on stage! And now, via some special effects whiz-bang,

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Of Love And Battlefields

Of Love And Battlefields

November 30, 2010

In a bold stroke of literary genius, author Cliff Kuang has merged Minard’s legendary Sankey diagram, Lee Byron’s Breakup Reasons chart, and Pat Benatar into a single blog post. Read the whole thing over at Co.Design

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