Miscellaneous

• Bed cartography

  May 1, 2012 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  Doghouse Diaries maps bed regions. I relate to this. [Thanks, Robert]

• Pancake Venn

  April 19, 2012 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  From illustrator Stephen Wildish: the pancake venn diagram. Is it Friday yet? [via]

• How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

  March 23, 2012 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  Adam Savage of Mythbusters gives a short talk on simple ideas leading to complex findings. Good. "Just thought a little bit harder" and "were a bit more curious."

• History told with Oreo cookies

  March 16, 2012 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  Celebrating their 100th birthday, Oreo depicts moments in history with the ever popular cookie of nostalgia and milk dunking. This one showing the first step on the moon is the best. Prohibition comes in a close second. [via]

• Charts with explosions now easier than ever

  December 16, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

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• Hemorrhoid venn diagram

  November 23, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  This past week I was shackled by a, um, condition where it was painful to move and difficult to concentrate, and Boost nutritional drinks were my friend, and solid foods were my enemy. (TMI?) I didn't even know this was an issue for people under 30. My caring wife, the ER doctor, looked it up in her medical dictionary, Hardwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, and this is what she found.

  I guess venn diagrams are used for other things besides song lyrics and comics.

  Take your fiber this Thanksgiving holiday. Thank me later.
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  Best statistics question ever

  The question is great. The resulting comment thread is epic. What's your answer?

• Venn diagram: Platypus playing a keytar

  October 28, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  The word you're looking for is epic. From Tenso graphics, maker of amusing t-shirt sketches. [via]

• The Venn Piagram

  October 21, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  Get it? It's a Venn diagram made of actual pies. That's why it's called a Venn piagram. [via]

• Flowchart: Which of NPR’s top 100 science fiction and fantasy books should you read?

  September 30, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  SF Signal constructs a big arse flowchart to help you sift through NPR's listener-picked top 100 science fiction and fantasy books. It's big and scrolltastic. Check out full and printable version here. I end up at The Time Machine by Wells. You?

• Most popular infographics generalized

  September 30, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  Yep, still amusing. [via]

• Yoda pie chart

  September 18, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  "Do or do not. There is no try." — Yoda [via]

• How to drink in public the right way

  September 2, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  In case you're wondering whether you should be drinking in that local park (you know, the one with the horsey and swings) this weekend, Jen Cotton for Grubstreet New York offers this guide. [Thanks, Ben]

• Cartoon color wheel

  September 1, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  Slate places cartoon characters from past and present within the frame of a color wheel.

  Why are the Smurfs blue? Why is Doug's Beebe Bluff purple? Our aim is not to answer these existential questions. When asked why the Simpsons are yellow, Yeardley Smith (voice of Lisa) explained only that Matt Groening "thought that it would be really funny if, when people watched The Simpsons, they thought that maybe the color on their TV was off."

  Totally ridiculous. And that's what makes it fun.

  [Thanks, Dean]

• Bikes of San Francisco

  August 19, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  Tor classifies areas in San Francisco by bicycle. I'd say that's about right.

  Also available in print.

  [Bikes of San Francisco via Laughing Squid]

• Flowchart: Should you argue on the Internet?

  August 5, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  With the anonymity on the Internet and all, I know it can be a tough decision whether you should be a trolling troll or not. H. Caldwell Tanner and Rosscott Nover help you figure it all out with this comical flowchart.

  [Rosscott, Inc. via Laughing Squid]

• Cell phones and cancer

  July 18, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  xkcd pokes fun at correlation and causation again. Funny every time.

• World map of useless stereotypes

  July 15, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  We saw Europe in the eyes of different countries a while back. Christoph Niemann, for The New York Times, runs with the idea and made this handy world map of stereotypes. My favorite is the arrogant arrows in Europe. True?

  [Abstract Sunday]

• Expanded rules for Rock-paper-scissors

  July 8, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  

  We already learned how to win Roshambo every time, but there's actually more to it. Eyemotive provides the expanded rules, namely tiebreakers and unconventional tactics. I hate it when someone lights my paper on fire. It hurts every time.

  [eyemotive]

• Hitler learns topology

  July 1, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Nathan Yau  •  Share on Twitter

  In another reword of the pivotal scene in Der Untergang, Adolf Hitler learns topology. Still makes me laugh every time.
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