How Do Americans Get to Work? Transit Patterns in Major Cities
Reasons Houston will always be ugly. I would have thought Chicago would do better, but I forget how many people live out in the suburbs.
How Do Americans Get to Work? Transit Patterns in Major Cities
Reasons Houston will always be ugly. I would have thought Chicago would do better, but I forget how many people live out in the suburbs.
It looks at your last.fm charts and calculates patterns in the keys of your favorite songs.
awesome. no idea what it means. still awesome.
from in the fade
inky:
clever. Although it’d probably be more accurate to just measure the pages-per-ink-cartridge of each font from an actual printer.
Heather points out that it is amusing that someone named “inky” posted this.
The Periodic Table of Beer Styles. Click for bigger.
nonduality:nickdouglas:justin:ronworkman:soupsoup:colinashe:
The National Geographic compares health care costs: on the left is health care spending per person, and on the right, average life expectancy. A line that slopes down from left to right indicates relative inefficiency, while a line sloping up from left to right indicates a relatively efficient system.
50 States, 50 Metros (via www.hewnandhammered.com)
That’s quite possibly the worst cartography/infographic I’ve ever seen. It destroys the iconic shapes of cities by tacking on some vague idea of their metropolitan areas, but they’re bullshit distinctions, purely pulling from county lines.
This National Geographic image depicts the record of mankind’s 50 years of space exploration. Take a look at the to-scale map of the solar system along the bottom of the graphic.
Click to see larger image.
(via faerienchanting’s facebook)