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The Stephen King Universe Flow Chart

Artw — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:45:10 -0800

Gillian James charts the connections in the Stephen King universe* Meanwhile The Guardian is rereading King begining with Carrie and Salems Lot, CNN has discovered The Gospel of Stephen King, and in further Castle Rock news a new movie version of It is being made.
* Not including The Dark Tower

How music travels: charting the evolution of western dance music

filthy light thief — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:58:33 -0800

Interactive info graphic: 100 years¹ of western² dance³ music, as it has grown and migrated around the world. Background, and a large static version. ¹ The map goes back to 1800 for older traditional, folk and religious music, and extends beyond the year 2000 ² While focusing on the western world, the map includes links from Africa and India ³ Genres go back to include things that have influenced modern dance music, so jazz, blues, rock & roll and such are included in the map

Watch the bubbles grow

infini — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:25:23 -0800

IMF Data Mapper v 3.0 Rosling's fun stuff applied to IMF data for September 2011. Includes selections of GDP, growth, change in percentage etc available by regions, countries, continent, and in map or bubble form. Downloadable.

A Guide To Rivers, Plains, Planets, Stars

The Whelk — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:26:04 -0800

Peacay of BibliOdyessey highlights some stunning examples of Victorian Infographics from the Rumsey Map Collection(previously). (Direct Flickr link)

... I go out at night and paint the stars.

Mitheral — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:30:32 -0800

Preserved in the cave excavations of Mogao and listing 1,339 stars the Dunhuang Star Chart is the oldest graphical star atlas known to exist. Dated to between 649 and 684 AD, it features two sections. The first consists of 26 diagrams of asterisms (including a recognizable Big Dipper and Orion) and the second contains 12 star maps each showing a 30 degree east-west section of sky in cylindrical projection plus an azimuthal projection circumpolar map. Star positions are accurate to within 1.5 degrees and it includes some stars in the southern sky. Previously 1,2,3. Via APOD.

A Series of Pop-Cultural Charts

blue_beetle — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:25:34 -0800

Sitcom Maps from DanMeth.com