Urban Cartography

a great diagram of Disneyland's Matterhorn rollercoaster by Scott Brown, via Fipi Lele

flowchart guide to GOP sex scandals

via the always helpful Fipi Lele - thanks!

please check out our other labor of love, Hewn & Hammered!

via http://www.manolith.com/

 
Patrick Farley made this wonderful summation of the arguments for/against same-sex marriage.

talk about adaptation! I love this picture. the retractable awnings are terrific. can anyone tell me where this is, or who took the photo?

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/bailout-costs-vs-big-historical-events/

from Flip Flop Flyball

Ross Racine, via Fipi Lele: "his works are drawn freehand directly on the computer. they do not contain photographs nor scanned material."

Chris writes:

(This comes) from this article about drawing borders more closely to the ethnic lines that exists on the ground. Not close to lots of ethnic lines for sure, but closer. Would still be chaos to implement, but any drawing of borders is. Interesting to think about given what Pakistan id doing to itself...

A map of the "underground city" of Derinkuyu, Turkey, one of many such complexes in Cappodocia.

A better illustration of how power is shared and applied in Iran's complex political system, by Paul Kedrosky, via Good magazine.

courtesy of the New York Times.

thanks again to the always-helpful Fipi Lele for this one. As reader Chris notes, replace "guardian council" with "mainstream media," (and drop "supreme leader") and it's pretty close to how things are done here in the US.

Kaitlyn Diduck is a gifted infographic designer

mitochondria, by Science News

Michael Anderson's resume is an infographic. Or rather, this infographic is his resume. Or both.

Funnel Inc. made this very revealing and funny infographic.

the north pole may soon become open water

a whole bunch of neat infographics from The Independent.

we live in an extremely dangerous world. thanks to fipi lele for this one.

thanks for Fipi Lele for this excellent image.

internet usage worldwide

courtesy of current infographic kings & queens, Good magazine

of course, if you factored in how much military aid the US gives Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt et. al., I'm sure the numbers would look a bit different. Would be nice to see a realistic accounting of the same in North Korea or China or Iran, but I doubt we'll know those numbers any time soon.

 

 

 

The Great Tree of Life - terrific Leonard Eisenberg chart of animal evolution

i confess!

the computer tree