{"id":12674,"date":"2008-02-24T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/02\/naked-saunas-3d-flash-globes-and-other-infographic-goodness.html"},"modified":"2008-02-24T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T22:53:08","slug":"naked_saunas_3d_flash_globes_and_other_inf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/naked_saunas_3d_flash_globes_and_other_inf\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked saunas, 3D Flash globes, and other infographic goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>My wife and I are nervously quizzing each other on these expert (and very funny) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makememinimal.com\/2008\/instrucciones-para-cuidar-un-bebe\/\">baby care instructions<\/a> (boosted wholesale, it would seem, from David Sopp&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Safe-Baby-Handling-Tips-David\/dp\/0762424915\"><em>Safe Baby Handling Tips<\/em><\/a>). [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hicksdesign.co.uk\/journal\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/wable_physical_web_activity_visualization_table_8843.asp\">Wable<\/a> is &#8220;a coffee table that displays a user&#8217;s web activity via physical bar graphing.&#8221;&#160; Yes, I remember pining for such a thing <em>not ever<\/em>. (Are Venn-diagram kiddie pools next?)<\/li>\n<li>Maps:\n<ul>\n<li><em>Concentric circles are coming for us!!<\/em>&#160; The Onion has <a href=\"http:\/\/eismann-sf.com\/news\/?p=141\">fun with news infographics<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Seeking to place events into geographical context, Yahoo has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/next.yahoo.net\/download\/newsglobe\/index.html\">3D NewsGlobe<\/a> using Adobe Flex.&#160; ComputerWorld&#8217;s got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9062501\">background on the project<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.riapedia.com\/2008\/02\/13\/another_flex_3d_app_yahoo_releases_newsglobe\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>In similar vein of &#8220;Learning America Smarter,&#8221; check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/images\/norway-vs-sweden.gif\">naked saunas, black metal, and ass-beating<\/a> of Scandinavia. (And you thought it was all chilling out with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medium-density_fibreboard\">MDF<\/a>.)&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/231694370\/maps-norway-vs-swede.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/227058094\/oldest-accurate-road.html\">The Gough Map<\/a> is said to be the oldest accurate map of Britain, dating from around 1360.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Signage:\n<ul>\n<li>My little brother Ted let me ride along last month as he drove his garbage truck.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/misc\/safetyman_waveOfMutillation.jpg\">This safeyman image<\/a> (somewhat dodgy iPhone-cam quality, sorry) I snapped in his cab shows the truck really putting the &#8220;screw&#8221; back in &#8220;screw of Archimedes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do not iron while wearing shirt (on an iron-on decal)&#8221;: more good advice from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlaw.org\/wwl\/pastwinners.html\">safetyman chronicles<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/american_product_warnings_avoid_death_8414.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>I can get behind this <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/doctorow\/386785246\/in\/set-72157601506708601\/\">&#8220;Faith healing sign&#8221; at Disneyland<\/a>, not to mention Serbian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/12\/22\/caution-children-vio.html\">children escaping a triangle<\/a>.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/12\/04\/faith-healing-sign-a.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Blogging software has made self-publishing seem simple, but beneath the covers, a whole lot&#8217;s going on.&#160; Wired has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/special_multimedia\/2008\/ff_secretlife_1602\">Flash-based diagram<\/a> showing what all happens when one hits &#8220;Publish.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/27\/what-happens-to-blog.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I are nervously quizzing each other on these expert (and very funny) baby care instructions (boosted wholesale, it would seem, from David Sopp&#8217;s Safe Baby Handling Tips). [Via] Wable is &#8220;a coffee table that displays a user&#8217;s web activity via physical bar graphing.&#8221;&#160; Yes, I remember pining for such a thing not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,32,2,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}