The fervent patriots over at E! Online took a bold stance against monarchical rule today, captioning an otherwise bland Windsor family update with an elegantly-scripted logo reading "Die Royals." [Update: The typo has been fixed and now reads "The Royals." Alles klar.]
There are two possible explanations for these horrendously mislabeled graphics from yesterday's Special Report with Brett Baier: one, that no one at Fox News knows or cares about where Nevada and New Hampshire are; or two, that the network is somehow trying to fool the Obama administration into pumping millions of…
The Achilles Effect, a blog about gender stereotypes and masculinity, took stock of the frequency with which certain words are used in commercials for "gendered" toys like Hot Wheels and Bratz by making Wordle word clouds. See if you can guess which cloud goes with which gender! (Hint: Boys hate friendship, fun and…
It's NFL Week 16, but ESPN's graphics department is still having issues. This clip from last night's MNF shows a couple of "lorem ipsum" teams rounding out the NFC playoff picture with records of 0-0. As if we wouldn't notice!
New York is getting a new subway map! It's the first redesign in more than a decade, and it mostly looks the same as the old map, but with new colors. Here are some of the big differences:
The internet is basically a place where you get free cat pictures in exchange for shadowy Big Brother-style ad conglomerates harvesting every bit of data about you and using it to psychologically manipulate you into rampant consumerism. Now, with disclosure!
Did you know that there are people in certain parts of the world who have never even seen an iPhone? Fortune has helpfully mapped out the fetishized Apple product's availability. The countries where one can procure an iPhone (at least by this summer) are marked in red. (Sucks to be you, Russia!) Of course, the map…
The NYT's T Magazine has a handy graphic breaking down the fashion styles of indie rockers, and confirming once and for all that nobody should aspire to be an indie rocker. Each band profiled corresponds to a luxury brand. Doesn't that violate some sort of tenet of indie cred? PLUS they are all matched with smiley…
