Nobody likes people cheating the unemployment system for benefits. Especially Canadians apparently. So this is a proposal to encourage the unemployed to start working.
Credit for the piece goes to Steve Murray.
The title is from perhaps my favourite Christmas song…
But the song relates to this post because earlier this week the print design blog For Print Only featured my annual Christmas card. I typically design and print a card to mail (as in a physical copy through the postal service, none of that e-card non-sense) to my friends and family. This past year I took to infographics to explore the realm of Santa and his North Pole dictatorship.
Credit for the photographs goes to FPO.
For those that may have missed it, earlier this week Google released its newest addition to its Google Maps product offering: the 8-bit Quest map. Never before has the world been seen in such high-resolution. And if you look close enough, you might even be able to spy some interesting features.
Happy Monster Hunting Quest.
xkcd presents this instructional diagram of how to (not) draw a star.
xkcd reminds us that not all infographics need to be complex to tell a tale.
from XKCD a chart on the difficulty of games for computers:
And remember folks, the score is still Q to 12. A free Get Out of the Boomerang Zone card if you get the reference.
Guess what? It’s Christmas season.
I am taking two weeks holiday starting tomorrow and so posting here shall be rather light until early January.
In business world, people like PowerPoint presentations with charts that show the flow of synergy. Scales of efficiency. Action item prioritisation. The kinds of things that the rest of us don’t every really need or want to understand. But, at happyplace.com, they have posted a series of Christmas charts and graphs that would feel right at home in such a presentation. Below is a flowchart showing the progression of the 12 Days of Corporate Christmas.
so bah humbug. (via XKCD)
Just sayin’…
Do you have a favourite map? Because just like how we can determine your true character from your beards, attire, drink preferences, &c. we now can see who you are based on your map preference, courtesy XKCD:
Gadhafi is dead. Sorry, I meant Kadhafi. Again, apologies, Qadaffy.
For so many years we have tried to spell the now deceased dictators name. It’s been in Saturday Night Live (sadly I cannot find a clip online). It’s been in the West Wing. So how can it be done?
The problem is that his name is in Arabic, which uses a different alphabet and so for the English-speaking world, transliterators must assign Latin alphabet characters to try and replicate the sounds in his name, some of which are unique to Arabic. Ever notice how the holy text of Islam is spelled often Koran or Quran? Just take that same problem and extend it further into a guy’s name.
This graphic, from Wikipedia, shows how the different parts of his name can be transliterated. And very quickly one can see why nobody really knows how to spell the name.
The next graphic is from Breaking Copy and depicts the most common ways of spelling the man’s name. The design of the piece is certainly more about entertainment than conveying a learning. But, it goes to illustrate the variance by major respected news organisations, all of whom are reporting on the man’s death. Credit for the piece goes to Daryl Lang.
And as a retrospective, news of his death and the liberation of Libya made me think back to my own graphic about some of the very first airstrikes in post from back in March.
But, anyway, he’s dead now. So the question is what name does he use on his headstone…
