Wired put together a rather interesting bit of ‘infoporn’ that compares the BMI (body-mass index) of Playboy playmate centerfolds to that of the typical American woman from December 1953 (Marilyn Monroe) to January 2009 (Dasha Astafieva).
The results are clear: While the typical American woman’s BMI has steadily climbed over the years, the typical playmate’s has slowly declined over that same period.
As Wired notes though, the facts and figures given by Playboy for each of their playmates probably have a fair dose of estimation, guessing and exaggeration built in, but even still, it’s telling of what they think the average American ‘wants’ vs. what the average American really is.
[Wired - Playboy Playmate BMI and Average BMI]
[Via: Flowing Data]
In an effort to “pull back the curtain” on the process of making (writing for, photographing for, designing for, producing) magazines, Wired has decided to go meta on their Charlie Kaufman story, and experiment by putting the entire story online as they product it.
Internal emails, rough drafts, edit memos, PDFs of layouts, marked-up page proofs; it’s all there for the world to see, and for you to follow along as the article comes together.
[Wired - Storyboard - A Profile of a Profile of Charlie Kaufman]
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]
