Colours In Cultures - there’s some neat data in here, although the graphic is quite poorly designed. Despite that, you can still pick out a few interesting points of what are semi-universal colour conventions:
The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A ‘Big Tent’ Can Be Too Big « OkTrends - I’ve had this open for over two weeks with the intention of blogging. I think I remember what I wanted to say.
For one thing, this shows how the variety of people who vote Democrat is considerably broader than the variety who vote Republican, and I think if you look at their stats and understand some of the politics in the U.S., it’s clear that this is a source of a lot of the problems.
Beyond that I wanted to point to the OkTrends blog, which despite being the blog of a dating website is full of extremely well-done statistical work on a variety of subjects, not to mention incredibly well done information graphics, which is a real rarity. The only thing I wish they’d added to this post is a note that they are assuming an 18-year-old in their database now will behave like a 28-year-old in their database in 10 years. It may be a good approximation, and it’s the best they can be expected to do given their data, but it’s something to note
Pie Chart on Pizza Box Advertising - information aesthetics - nice ads… we need to see more information graphics everywhere
Freebase Parallax - when Freebase first came out as a sort of open version of Google Base, I doubted if it would come to fill that role.
Today Freebase has tons of data, and is really well designed and managed. This video of what you can do with one Freebase-based tool is truly amazing. Watch it.
I’ll Take My Infographic in Bright Orange, Men’s Medium | FlowingData - t-shirts with information graphics. One of my dozens of failed infographic ideas was to put them on t-shirts, but I didn’t get past one design (in my head).
Review: Swivel vs. Many Eyes | EagerEyes.org - Robert’s really done a comprehensive overview here; very useful. Both websites would do well to read it.
Pictures of Numbers: False Advertising - for those who seem to wonder why I care so much about my information graphics - this is what happens when you don’t care.
Aharef: Websites as graphs - neat visualization. Via Tufte
World Processor - incredible gallery of around 200 ‘globes’, each with a different geopolitical theme. Via The Map Room.
Schools in cities don’t get to have nice large grassy fields, but this is still pretty nice. so much so that I suspect it is a private school. In Telegraph Hill, probably on Greenwich Street
in the same tiny wooded area as the previous photo
you can see the tops of theese trees in the previous photo. nice little area just north of the Coit Tower, with paths down to the street. The street that it reaches (at least when I was there) was where the wild parrots were all resting. I didn’t manage to get a decent photo of them, though.
I’m proud to say I managed to narrow down all my good photos of this spider to only three. This one was needed for size reference 
same spider as in the previous photo. looks like it may be about to jump?
Among the dozen or so photos I took of this spider are the very first shots I’ve taken of very small animals that I would consider successful. Unlike almost all the photos I post, I’ve cropped this one to show a more close-up view.
Apparently this species is a sort of jumping spider. Maybe that means it’s a wolf spider? I’ll have to look it up.
Update: okay, apparently wolf spiders are bigger, so it’s something else.
Also along the stairs near Coit Tower (see previous photo).
I’m extremely pleased with how well this photo turned out. The flowers and other plants around the stairs leading up to the hill with the Coit Tower are beautiful; I wonder if it is the homeowners, the city, or both, that take care of them.
the same tree as the previous photo, in Pioneer Park
it is sort of a man-made, manufactured stream, but it is very nice nevertheless
