Humor Archive:

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An entertaining compendium of visualizations about the upcoming year, created for Chronogram Magazine. The magazine write-up included a wonderful self-denigrating statement from designer Jason Cring: “Cring believes infographic purists like information design guru Edward Tufte would be appalled. ‘Tufte’s very opinionated about the right and wrong ways to present information. He would not approve of any of this, I’m quite sure.'”

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AC/DC is #1? Journey #2? Hilarious. Based on requests made to DJ’s (not sales or radio play).

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A table of important things, time-relevant things, and stuff we’ve already forgotten about. Thanks to Nathan Sweet for passing it on.

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I think the TSA should be sent this chart – or maybe Fox.
Thanks to Jonathan for sending me the link.

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The annual adding up of all those gifts in the song. (5 golden rings, 4 calling birds, etc).

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Venneration

In: Culture Humor

6 Dec 2009

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A reasonably accurate mapping of choices. Thanks to Sandy for pointing it out to me. and I just noticed there’s one on the same site for cereal.

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Because its Friday. something a little more entertaining –  and it’s actually a nice combination of venn and axis chart styles.

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Happy Halloween

In: Culture Humor

31 Oct 2009

So true.

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I couldn’t help but laugh at Infectious Greed’s response to today’s Q3 GDP numbers.

Turns out coursing a few gigavolts of financial stimulus current through even an economy the size of the U.S. will still get Frankenstein off the slab, however briefly.

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