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The Indy 500 Car Tracker that The Indianapolis Star put together for last weekend’s race is a very interesting way of looking at racing.
As you watch each lap tick away in under a second, you can really get a feel for how the cars jockey for position, how they plan their pit strategy, and who is pulling away from whom.
[Via: Kottke]
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Despite my best efforts, I can’t find an original source for this fantastic infographic about the “Number of men in the United States who will die in 2008 as a result of…”
The facts and figures themselves apparently come from the Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database, and cover unfortunates such as fireworks accidents, falling from a building, spider bites, falling down stairs, shark attacks, and plenty of other ways to accidentally leave this Earth.
[Via: LikeCool]
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The New York Times put together a fantastically informative infographic of box office data for Hollywood films from 1986 through 2007.
The height shows the weekly revenue, and the area and color represent the total gross, so you can quickly and easily compare movies side by side.
Notice any trends?
[The New York Times - The Ebb And Flow Of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007]
[Via: Boing Boing]
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Ever wonder what happens to a blog post after “Publish” is clicked?
The post is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web, going from servers to spiders to suits – to you.
To help explain this process a bit better, Wired has created a fantastically simple infographic.
Where do you fit in?
[Wired - The Life Cycle Of A Blog Post]
[Via: Boing Boing]
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