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Here's a movie pitch: One lone telecommunications technician, going about his ordinary daily work in San Francisco, begins to realize things aren't quite what they seem. There's a "secret room" downstairs, and ordinary employees aren't allowed to enter it. Coworkers — almost casually! — remark that a government spy agency is involved, that similar facilities [...]
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This is a fantastic piece of data pr0n that should shut-up every Obama-knocker out there! One year in, the evidence is clear – and growing by the day – that the Recovery Act is working to cushion the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and lay a new foundation for economic growth. Organizing for [...]
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Gapminder.org has awesome infographics! For example this moving graph of Oil Consumption vs. Oil Production by country, 1965 to present: Gapminder World
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According to this enlightening presentation by Julian Treasure, productivity in an open plan office (cube farm) is reduced by 66% due to noise pollution (from other people). I can attest to this. Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us (via TED.com)
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Who knew that speaking reasonably could be so sexy? Oh yeah….Senator Paul Simon knew, may he rest in peace. When Senator Al Franken was confronted by an angry mob of teabagger/anti-healthcare-reform types, he calmly, rationally and intelligently talked them down, setting an example for how to conduct reasoned discourse that relies on facts and rationality [...]
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If the gigantic numbers on this website weren’t so abstract they’d be terrifying… U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
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This is a pretty useful podcast for getting into the heads of business managers and hearing about trends that your stodgy office won’t adopt for another 10 years. Episode 114 is especially useful for people like me who have foot-in-mouth disease: Harvard Business IdeaCast 114: Speaking Well in Tough Moments
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Amazing artistic interpretations in the vein of Tufte’s style of infographics from Stefanie Posavec called “On the Map” via NOTCOT: Stefanie’s maps capture something above and beyond that of the others. Rather than mapping physical geography, her maps capture regularities and patterns within a literary space.
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And now for something completely different: Protecting Yourself From Suspicionless Searches While Traveling | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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This is some hardcore statistic pr0n sent in by Noel: Worldometers – real time world statistics “It took all of human history until 1800 for the world’s population to reach its first billion. Now we add a new billion nearly every dozen years. As the global total swells to nearly 9 billion by 2050, the [...]
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