ilovecharts:

the origins and evolution of language

via Kurt White

(via fuckyeahlost)

ilovecharts:

- mightyku

This debate just escalated right over my head. Those are a lot of numbers. Carry on.

redesignrelated:

Bruce Mau Design redesigns the Facebook profile page

“We invited Bruce Mau Design, a firm famous for its conceptual ambition, to reimagine what a Facebook page might be. To signal that they were aiming at more than a cosmetic redo, BMD’s design director Paddy Harrington and his team left many of Facebook’s graphic details intact…” —via The Washington Post

(via philk)

laphamsquarterly:

In 1820 a little-known architect named Thomas Wilson proposed a plan for “a metropolitan cemetery on a scale commensurate with the necessities of the largest city in the world, embracing prospectively the demands of centuries, sufficiently capacious to receive five million of the dead, where they may repose in perfect security, without interfering with the comfort, the health, the business, the property, or the pursuits of the living.” What he proposed, in short, was a massive pyramid, its base covering eighteen acres and its height well above that of St. Peter’s Cathedral—a metropolitan sepulcher, a skyscraper for the dead.

—From Colin Dickey’s new Roundtable post, “Skyscrapers of the Dead.” His essay, “Necropolis,” on cemeteries and urban spaces, is featured in our Fall 2010 issue on The City. 

(via theatlantic)

newsweek:

kryanjones:

Belligerence Canned: The Four Loko Experiment

With several states outlawing this alcoholic/caffeinated beverage, which has sent numerous college students to the ER, I decided to take a scientific approach to the Four Loko experience.  Using my journalistic skills and an 8th grade understanding of the scientific method, I decided to give myself three tasks to complete while under the influence of Four

Loko:

1. Recite from memory a Shakespearean soliloquy. 
2. Play an online round of Call of Duty.
3. Talk with and/or flirt with a girl.  

It’s a good thing we recorded the experiment, because I don’t remember half of it.

Thanks to Tyler and Garrett for manning the cameras and keeping me away from the knives.

Note: This is not a Newsweek video production.

And Ryan Jones goes loko.

ilovecharts:

via Jeff Mason

ilovecharts:

Standards of Living, copyright 1962

via Jeff

This is old enough to be on I Love Old Magazines

ilovecharts:

Found this on the BBC News website here, I thought it was pretty interesting.