"Had I ever given a compliment that made someone feel worse? Or that had no effect at all? I decided to learn how to deliver good ones. I devised a plan in which
I would give a lot of them in a short time and work to figure out exactly how the best compliments worked, and why."
posted by vidur
on Jul 3, 2012 -
52 comments
In the year 2040, America's economic collapse is complete, the cloud has been repossessed, and Westerners are forced to take jobs that no one in the East will do. Chinese documentary program Window on the World
investigates the sad state of affairs.
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posted by CharlesV42
on Sep 12, 2011 -
68 comments
Journalism may be going through a painful period but thanks to the web the once lowly information graphic is finally growing up to be all it never could on paper. Especially the New York Times seems to currently stand out in how frequently and quickly they build amazingly detailed and insightful interactive features. Consider the
tracking of US Airways Flight 1549 or the piece on
raising its engine from the Hudson. Other recent highlights:
9,955,441 parking tickets issues in NYC mapped by street,
The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 — 2008,
Ansel Adams's Yosemite,
the view from the 10-meter platform explained,
A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses 1789 to the Present,
A Map of the number of medals that countries won in summer Olympic Games,
Going to the End of the Line,
The 44 Places to go in 2009, an explanation of
how the Pentagon responded to criticism of then-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld,
The Soyuz Spacecraft,
How the Towers Stood and Fell and
many,
many, more.
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posted by krautland
on Feb 14, 2009 -
16 comments
If you had HBO in the 80's, you saw
this every night at 8pm. HBO put together a brief behind-the-scenes
featurette showing everything from the construction of the models to the composition of the music.
posted by dr_dank
on Mar 15, 2008 -
63 comments
