dave.vogler

ilovecharts:

The poster represents roughly what the title says: every person who lived and died on the planet, from 3200 B.C.E. to 2009 C.E. The total paper area represents the 78 billion people who lived over the past 5000 years. The gaping hole in the center represents every person who died in a major war, genocide, or massacre: approximately 969 million people, or 1.25% of the total number of people who have ever lived on the planet.
Text is printed in transparent ink on plastic (shown as white on black, right). The circles at the top represent the number of conflicts per millennium with more than 1000 deaths, and the circle of text lists them by name. The bottom circle represents the expected number of conflicts in the next millennium if the escalating pattern continues.

-Astasia 

thedailywhat:

This. Changes. Everything of the Day: Sick and tired of being unable to create up to four individual-sized pies at once from the comfort of your own cubicle? The Breville Personal Pie Maker, available exclusively through Williams-Sonoma, is here to help you lip-smack your pie-less doldrums away.

Also: End civilization as we know it.

[ohgizmo!]

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vivezlavie:

(Source: wbotd, via wbotd)

In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.”

The average…

thefrogman:

QUIT LOOKING AT IT! 

Geez. 

Over the years, the process of theming Drupal sites has improved drastically. However, one issue that remains a constant pain point in the community is dealing with core and module CSS. I think we all agree that it’s broken, but there are two completely opposite views on how to go about fixing…

Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.
Me: I just want to know how late you’re open.
Website: Nope.
Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something?
Website: I’m ignoring…

idfarmer:

20 incredible infographics, interactives and data visualizations.

thedailywhat:

/indeed.

[gregrutter.]