Miscellaneous

• Charts with explosions now easier than ever

  December 16, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (16)

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• Hemorrhoid venn diagram

  November 23, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (9)

  

  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  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (6)

  

  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  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (15)

  

  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  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (4)

  

  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  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (6)

  

  Yep, still amusing. [via]

• Yoda pie chart

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

• How to drink in public the right way

  September 2, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (2)

  

  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  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (3)

  

  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  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (5)

  

  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  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (16)

  

  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  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (2)

  

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

• World map of useless stereotypes

  July 15, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (17)

  

  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  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (6)

  

  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  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (2)

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

  June 30, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Share on Twitter  •  Add Comment

  

  Manu Cornet caricaturizes org charts of major tech companies, such as Amazon with its top-down structure and Google with its slightly less structured structure. Drop it like it's hot.

  [Organizational Charts | Thanks, Ian]

• Sufficiently large X

  June 24, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (4)

  

  As comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal explains, this is what happens when a powerful weapon falls into the wrong hands. Or when someone in power is just plain dumb.

  [SMBC via @eagereyes]

• Flowchart to decide if you should share that pic of your privates

  June 15, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (3)

  

  This seems obvious, but apparently there are people who are unsure of what to do with Twitter and social norms. Now you know. Thanks, Good Magazine for your clear guide.

  [GOOD | Thanks, @unchillbill]

• What you need to get together

  June 10, 2011 to Miscellaneous  •  Share on Twitter  •  Comments (1)

  

  A good one from someone named Cody. I couldn't figure out where this is actually from though.