Month: June 2007

One blog you should check out is Indexed, Jessica Hagy’s blog that’s completely based on charts, graphs, Venn diagrams and other visualizations. I posted a chart from Indexed titled The Seven Deadly Sins earlier this year. Here are some more…

Here’s one on dating and age…

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Here’s one that answers the question “What did you do last weekend?”, based on your particular subculture…

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And here’s one from that explains one of the little-publicized advantages of being average (although you can have “average” — I’m aiming for the right end of the curve, myself…)

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According to this graph from Very Small Array, “Xander” is the hot name for babies right now, with “Willow” a close second. “Buffy” peaked in the early 1970s, and with perhaps “Rupert” and “Giles” are due for a comeback:

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If you’ve ever wondered which states have the best access to the International House of Pancakes (and they truly are international — they’ve got ’em in Japan, too!), wonder no more. The blog Very Small Array has the answer, and in a lovely visual form to boot:

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For those of you who live in the South (dudes at the Starkville Tucows office, I’m lookin’ at you!), there’s another chart showing which states have the best access to Waffle House.

Over at the technology blog Global Nerdy, I’ve got a video that presents the facts shown above — Thirty-Six Youth Facts in One Hundred and Fifty-Nine Seconds.

As you’ve probably noticed, things are a bit of a mess right now here at The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century. I’ll be re-jigging the blog over the next couple of days, and I’ll do what I can to keep things readable.

The photo above, plus interesting stories about the tech world, are good reasons why you should head over to Global Nerdy right now.