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A huge chart by Ben Moore illustrates 35 different incarnations of the Bat Suit -Batman’s crime fighting costume. See all of it at Screen Rant. Link -via The Daily What Geek
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Randall Munroe at xkcd put together a chart about money, so massive that you’ll have to enlarge a few times just to read it. The statistics cover what things cost, what people earn, business profits, taxes, government spending, utilities, war, and more. The amounts of money for each are laid out in blocks for comparison. That’s a lot of blocks. What is shown here, as compressed as it is, is just a portion. Link -via Boing Boing
This chart from Jorge Cham of PhD Comics is more relevant than ever. However, I’ve heard that it only applies to Americans. Link -via Chart Porn
Dan Meth created this handy chart comparing the sizes of various sandworms. The next time you encounter one, it may help you to identify what type it is. Link -via Laughing Squid
DeviantART member Cedarseed constructed a large and thorough chart of house cat colors and patterns. In case you weren’t sure whether your Fluffy is a flame point or dilute caliby or a Seychellois Neuvième, this chart will help. Even if you don’t have a cat, it’s quite interesting. Shown is very small part of this huge chart, which is also for sale as an art print. Click on “Download Image” to see the full size version Link -via Metafilter
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How are you feeling today? If your emotional state doesn’t lend itself easily to words, how about this handy dandy Internet Chart of Emotions?
See also: The Daily Mood Flipchart
If you’ve ever been to an emergency room, you’ve seen the chart they give you to help describe the pain you are feeling on a scale of one to ten. Allie redrew the chart to make it more descriptive of real-world pain. Link -via Buzzfeed
Phillip Niemeyer created an infographic of the big subjects of each year of the past decade for the New York Times. This is just a small part of the chart, which you can enlarge at the link. Keep in mind, this is on the opinion page. Link -via Digg
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GOOD magazine has a graphic that shows how big the news stories of 2009 were compared to other news stories. The information used is from Journalism.org, which calculates the percentage of coverage news stories get every week. Link -via Nag on the Lake
The French design firm 5.5 designed a few infographics for the Spanish chocolatier ChocolatFactory. Each is made out of actual chocolate. Pictured above is a set of domes that represent different cocoa contents, with the largest dome representing the least cocoa (60%) and the smallest representing the most (99%). The other graphics are chocolate bars that tell consumers how many calories they’re eating and a pie chart demonstrating a distribution system.
Link | 5.5 | ChocolatFactory | Photo: 5.5
Pedro M. Cruz, a graduate student in information visualization and interaction design, created this time-elapsed representation of the rise and decline of the British, French, Portuguese, and Spanish overseas empires from 1800 to 2000. He writes:
The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. I chose the maritime empires because of their more abrupt and obtuse evolution as the visual emphasis is on their decline. The first idea to represent a territory independence was a mitosis like split — it’s harder to implement than it looks. Each shape tends to retain an area that’s directly proportional to the extent of the occupied territory on a specific year. The datasource is mostly our beloved wikipedia. The split of a territory is often the result of an extent process and it had to be visualized on a specific year. So I chose to pick the dates where it was perceived a de facto independence (e.g. the most of independence declarations prior to the new state’s recognition). Dominions of an empire, were considered part of that empire and thus not independent.
A funny illustrated look inside the world of internet trolls, with a classification chart of different traits and different members of the troll ecosystem.
The best way to deal with trolls varies by type. To deal with the professor and critic, ignoring their rants goes a long way. They may get angrier at first, but the lack of an audience will drive them to more easily riled up communities, soon. Screamers should be gagged somehow, and are usually easy to pick out by their caps lock and swears-to-normal-words ratio.
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One of my favorite science comic artists, Jorge Cham of PhD Comics, nailed yet another one with this panel. Incidentally, it is 2AM on the West Coast when I post this one up.
Link | If you’re new to PhD Comics, go here for the good stuff
