Humor Archive:
Repetitive Tasks
In: Humor Internet/tech
10 May 2012Yep. This pretty much describes my career. Progress is the result of a lazy man finding an easier way of doing things.
Zombie Apocalypse Map
In: Culture Humor Interactive Maps
11 Apr 2012Use this interactive google-mashup-map to locate emergency supplies in the event of a zombie outbreak. This should help you not walk past guns and supplies like in that stupid Walking Dead show.
Stephen Wildish
5 Mar 2012A number of cool diagram designs from this UK designer. File them in your inspiration rolodex under “properly balanced color combinations”. Thanks to Lisa Lisa for sending in the link!
14 Ways Economists Say I Love You (with Charts)
In: Humor
14 Feb 201214 charts – each one quite cute. Below are my favorites. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
Thanks to Sam F. for sending me the link!
Discordianism
20 Jan 2012
The World According to San Francisco
12 Jan 2012
Aries Criminals
4 Jan 2012An analysis of people arrested in Southwestern Ontario in 2011 by astrological sign. Anyone have a larger dataset?
Correlation or Causation
12 Dec 2011Amusing examples of why you shouldn’t trust a lot of charts. Thanks to Sam F. for sending me the link!
Breeds: Dogs vs Cat
In: Humor
8 Dec 2011
How (un)Popular is Congress?
16 Nov 2011Congress is less popular than the IRS, lawyers, banks, and Nixon – but just above Fidel Castro. Hahaha!.
Opinion polls are probably the mostly worthless statistics out there. However, they can sometimes be amusing: In the 1990s, Michael Moore’s television show “TV Nation” paid for a number of entertaining polls to be professionally conducted:
65% of all Americans believe that frozen pizza will never be any good and there’s nothing science can do about it.
15% of Americans wish Dennis Hopper would go back on drugs.
29% of Americans believe that Elvis was right to shoot TV sets.
60% of Americans say that if they could push a button that would make Larry King disappear, they would “keep pushing it and not stop.”
17% of college graduates would punch themselves really hard in the face for $50.
16% of all Americans believe that the world is out to get them. Of those, 46% are gun owners.
What Your Favorite Map Projection Says About You
15 Nov 2011Personally, I like to stare at the Peters when I’m pondering global issues, but I use the Winkel-Tripel when I’m double checking a choropleth or cartogram and need to be sure which shape in the middle of eastern Europe really is Slovenia – I have large versions of both on my office walls.
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- Steve: Budgets aren't subject to the filibuster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_S [...]
- Nathan: Rogier, follow the link to NPR and you will read that education has been lumped in with "everything [...]
- mims: Lol, the lazy man. I'd say the efficient woman. Or man. ;) [...]
- lam: except, scott, when you consider that congress has to do somethings just to keep this country functi [...]