Terror in the Heartland » information design

A Sow's Ear

McChris — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:06:50 +0000

The good folks at Talking Points Memo created this video to contest Sarah Palin and John McCain’s claims of being earmark reformers. (Earmarks are provisions in federal spending bills that direct money to specific projects – porkbarrel projects.) I’m posting it here because I think it’s good information design the number of hogs and the cash-register audio cues do a good job of reflecting the scale of earmarks in Alaska, even if the representations are a bit imprecise.

Talking Points Memo also created this nice graphic to mock the faux outrage from Republicans over Obama’s use of the common expression “lipstick on a pig.” I wonder how the Republicans would have reacted if he had said “frosting on a turd.”

perspctv

McChris — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:32:00 +0000

perspctv has been sitting in an open tab for days, and I thought I should blog it before closing the window. It’s an interesting series of visualizations that show, among other things, the relative number of mentions of McCain and Obama on Twitter.

MSNBC's Hurricane Tracker

McChris — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:37:06 +0000

MSNBC’s Hurricane Tracker is a pretty awesome use of Flash provides information I’ve been looking for. I really do hope Hurricane Gustav doesn’t kill any more people, but if it does, there can be no better time than during the Republican National Convention.