Archive for the 'information' Category

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Posters based on abstract ideas, the history of ideas, crackpot ideas, and ideas.

Thoughtful piece on the history of the NSA, the future of information (yottabytes?!), and political and electrical power.

Visualized history of the colored alert system of the Department of Homeland Security. Demonstrates that in the history of the color alert system, there has never been a day when the alert has been Green or Blue.

I, for one, was somewhat surprised to learn that subway ridership in NYC peaked in the late 40s.

Critique of various ULTIMATE Tuesday infographics. Interestingly doesn't discuss much of the content of the data being presented by different news outlets. eg, NYTimes is very conservative with their delegate count, but CNN is, well, profligate.

This is sort of hilarious. I can't tell if it's because everyone is in the middle of saying something, or the fact that Robert Bork got such a huge amount of space.

I'm not sure what the justification is for caucusing vs. a primary election, because it sort of seems like caucusing is pretty weird.