June 18, 2009

Thursday Infographics: From Rambo to D&D

• How does Rambo’s shirtlessness affect his per-minute killing prowess? Flowing Data has the answer! [Tangentially related: Five terrible fake Sylvester Stallone franchise revivals. Even more tangential: My wife has ancestors named Rambo, but strangely she won't sign up for using "Rambo" as our forthcoming son's middle name.]
• “Effing Hail!” It’s infographics as a game. [Via]
• Crossing a couple of nerd-streams, check out these D&D-style maps of the C++ programming language.
• Wikipedia shows the mean center of United States population as it has evolved throughout the years. [Via]
• oobject collects maps of 12 of the world’s most fascinating tunnel networks. [Via]