These guys are fantastic, and their work never gets old. The other day they went around Brooklyn and passed out “invisible dogs” to people around Cobble Hill.
And a few days before that they set up a photo booth in a subway car and told passengers that the MTA had hired them to take photos of strap-hangers for the NYC subway riders yearbook. Hilarious.
[Via Swissmiss]
The NY Times has posted another stellar interactive info-graphic. This one compares the market capitalization of the nations largest financial institutions from the market peak on October 9, 2007, to the market trough on March 9, 2009 and on to recent times on September 11, 2009.
Sad that this has to be said, for the coders. But a necessary point of clarification for the non-coders.
Explained best by Jeremy Keith:
Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.
In one of the most bone-headed moves to ever be made in the name of “brand building” Yahoo! has decided to slap their logo onto the Flickr logo. As if Flickr users, myself included, weren’t already cheesed about Yahoo! buying Flicker and later getting rid of most of the great minds behind the  photo-sharing site, now Yahoo! thinks it’s a good idea to constantly remind users of their failures along every step of the road. Bravo Yahoo!, bravo.
The Lego house built by James May of Top Gear fame is meeting it’s demise. Apparently he couldn’t find anyone to take the house off of his hands so down it comes.
[Via clusterflock]
The Ultimate Productivity Blog offers some great advice.
teehan+lax has mocked up a new iPhone home screen. It would be a great option for users to get quicker access to their most-used applications.
[Via Shawn Blanc]
A collection of popular, influential and notorious typefaces by Camdon Wilde organized into periodic table form.
[via FPO]
From the land of “Probably not a good idea but how could the nerds resist the temptation of a good challenge” comes a new project from MIT, Project Gaydar.
Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person’s friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction.
[Via Anthill]
Nike’s History of Flight site chronicles the evolution of the Jordan brand shoes. It has some great illustrations, and layer upon layer of information about every year of the shoe lines existence. It’s amazing how some of the uglier models can actually look half-decent when they’re displayed in the simple gray tones. Tip of the hat to the folks at Blast Radius that put it together.
[Via GraphicHug]
