Wired magazine logged nearly 35,000 complaint calls to 311— New York's call-and-whine help line—and put them in this handy graph based on nature of complaint and time of call. They also break it down by bitchingest neighborhood

The average American murder costs society $17.2 million, according to researchers who studied the economic impact of murders, rapes, and other felonies. Here's how they stacked up.

It turns out the stereotypes about gay and straight men and women are kind of true. Data-obsessed dating site OKCupid sorted through what gay and straight users claim they like to compile the snazzy charts you'll find below.

In the constantly-contradicting world of tabloid journalism, is anyone reliable? We analyzed 20 months of reported break-ups, marriages, and pregnancies to tabulate our first-ever Tabloid Reality Index, batting averages for America's five major celebrity glossies and the rumors they monger.

Spanish mathematician Jose-Manuel Rey has calculated the "second thermodynamic law for sentimental interaction" and charted the trajectory of "sentimental equilibrium." Just like a relationship that is falling apart, it is as complicated as it is inscrutable.

[Next to whether or not she's a lesbian, everyone wants to know who is going to play Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on Saturday Night Live. The Apiary made this awesome chart based on suggestions the masses made on Twitter.]

[According to a study by IBM, New York office drones spent a combined 22.5 years waiting for or riding elevators at work last year. That's more than any other city. Image via IBM.]

If you haven't seen this on Twitter already, here is an awesome chart someone made breaking down all the things Lady G lusts after in the lyrics for her song "Bad Romance." But how to explain "Roma-Romama?"

Did you think the fact a Senate subcommittee pummeled Goldman Sachs executives on Capitol Hill all day would put off investors? Not so much. Goldman Sachs stock traded up today while the rest of the markets took a nosedive.

[Here's a wonderful chart, Unboxing the iPad Data by John Kumahara and Johnathan Bonnell, showing that iPads are being sold mainly in urban areas. You should have gone to the Apple store in Omaha. No lines! [via]

First-quarter Nielsen ratings are out, and everyone is talking about CNN's (continued) primetime ratings free-fall. While Fox News remains No. 1, MSNBC and CNN's sister network HLN are now regularly outperforming The Coop and his cohorts.

This is fun: Paul Kedrosky has assembled a list of books about the financial crisis which contain the most instances of the word "fuck." Surprisingly less than we expected, given the topic. Full list, after the jump:

You know who will never report on how useless the local news is? The local news! Because it doesn't involve inclement weather, an Amber Alert, or a home invasion. You know what local news is? Local news is the worst.

Some glorious nerds at Information Is Beautiful have made a curvaceous timeline plotting time travel dates from popular movies and TV shows. It's a little hard to figure out just looking at it, but the site explains it nicely.

You too can transform your pop culture obsession into science through the magic of infographics! Above, Michael Deal's chart of what the Beatles were doing from 1963 to 1966. Omitted: drugs and groupies. Large versions of Beatles-related infoporn here. [via]

Media can stare at itself all it likes, but it takes sitting across the table from today's news monster to really see what journalism has become. In a fascinating diagram, director Jason Reitman has pretty much broken it down.

Did you know that in KISS's epic career, they've never had an album reach the No. 1 on the Billboard chart? After they released their record last week, that final prize seemed at hand. Then Oprah ruined everything.

Mint.com, way to promote your product! The free online money management program put together a wonderful, well-designed chart to show you how well they design things like charts. Their morbidly glee-tinted topic: the death of newspapers.

Twitter is poised to close a $50 million funding round that values the microblogging startup at a staggering $1 billion, according to TechCrunch and AllThingsD. Since closing its last venture round in February, then, the startup's value has grown fourfold.