Panic Status Board
Panic Status board is a fun project by the folks at Panic, company that makes awesome Mac apps. The ’status board’ in their office is to keep track of the projects that they are working on. Awesome!!
this is an internal-only web page that updates frequently using AJAX which shows:
* E-Mail Queue [...]
Typodarium - Peel away Calendar
Typodarium is a tear-off calendar with 365 different fonts like bread-and-butter types and typographical baubles, character sets and punctuation marks, old masters and wild youths, favorite fonts from all over the world. Buy for 16.80 EUR.
The Billion Dollar Gram
Interesting visualization (Click on the image to view a bigger image) of billion dollar spends. Another work by David McCandless, a London-based visual & data journalist.
The hierarchy of digital distractions
Amazing visualization of digital distractions by David McCandless, a London-based author, writer, designer and independent visual & data journalist. Click on the image for a bigger view. [via]
Data Visualization: The Colors of Democracy
Spotted by brainpickings, the Colors of Democracy is a flyer distributed in Bulgaria, displaying voting results by party affiliation for Bulgarian Parliament elections since the fall of Communism.
Each dot represents the official color of a specific Bulgarian party — the visualization clearly shows the declining grip of the conservative party in (red)), the one [...]
Stories behind the 13 most famous Numbers
The number zero was the the number that enabled the denominational number system and therefore the basis on which modern mathematics was built. Numerous old cultures did not have an equivalent for the zero like for instance the Romans.Its origin and thus the origin of the decimal system dates back to India in the 3rd [...]
