June 19, 2008

Infographic stylings: From bacon to Ludacris

• Love bacon, love the bacon flowchart.  "Are you wearing pants?"  (Evidently this will prove important.)
• Men’s Vogue celebrates Massimo Vignelli’s sleek 1972 New York subway map.
• The Boston Globe teaches you to nap. [Via]
• Stefanie Gray maps the area codes in which Ludacris claims to… uh, know ladies.  [Via]
• Mark Rabinowitz uses the graphical language of nutrition facts to illustrate some truths about prostitution.
• How many employees does Google have?  About this many.  [Via]
• It’s tangentially related, maybe, but I dig these out-of-context small boat images. [Via]

Mo’ betta colors, from Firefox & HP

(Dang, now I have that Ice-T song "Colors" in my head)

• HP’s new monitor eats your mere 16.7-million-color display for breakfast.  For $3,499, the 30-bit (10 bits per RGB channel) DreamColor LP2480zx promises up to a billion colors per pixel.  The display is aimed especially at people doing cinema post production & was produced in collaboration with DreamWorks Animation SKG.
• Firefox 3 is the latest web browser to support the colour managed display of photos with embedded ICC profiles, points out Rob Galbraith.  "That’s the good news. The bad news is it’s turned off by default. Here’s how to turn it on."  (For why all this matters, see previous.)

PS–The topic of color also makes me think of some cute profanity.