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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Ready And Rumbling
January 6, 2011 –Woohoo, it’s 2011! Happy New Year to you and yours, and oodles of health and happiness in the coming months.
This Christmas holiday, as I tobogganed through the remote Montana wilderness, I found myself pondering this blog.
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The Tiniest Nation
December 28, 2010 –What do you get when you take Kai Krause’s well-done exposé on the surprisingly-large proportions of Africa… and put it in reverse? Jeffrey Winter’s maptastic infographic of the territory occupied by the world’s tiniest nation:
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Population: 308,745,538
December 21, 2010 –It’s official! According to the Census Bureau, on April 1, 2010, the total population of the United States was 308,745,538 residents. That’s 27.3 million more people than in 2000 – a ten-year increase of 9.7%.
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The Santa Brand Book
December 17, 2010 –Earlier this year, jolly old St. Nick hired a marketing consultancy – to buttress his rustic cottage operation against the blossoming distractions of modern-day bling. The result? The Santa Brand Book. From the introduction:
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Big, Crunchy Circles
December 17, 2010 –If Edward Tufte got high, gobbled down the MLS database, and yawned it back up in Technicolor, the aftermath might look something like Cheerio Maps, Stamen Design’s new experimental visualization of San Francisco home sales:
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Access Not Denied
December 15, 2010 –On Sunday, hackers broke into Gawker Media, stole the user database, and promptly posted it on the Internet. Now, the email addresses and passwords of 1.3 million Gawker accounts –
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Queries In Review
December 13, 2010 –It’s been a humdinger of a year, and in Zeitgeist 2010, Google has mined trillions of queries to show us “how the world searched” it:
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