either spontaneous human combustion or a pocket nuclear bomb

[extemporanea]

Gah. Actual sleep patterns appear to be a luxury in which I am not permitted to indulge. Monday night's drunken movie-watching1 had its inevitable effect, viz. waking up abruptly at about 2.30am when I actually sobered up, and being unable to recapture sleep beyond a fretful doze, punctuated by affection assaults from the hobbit and concomitant cat

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[stringgeek]

Information is Beautiful! I especially like the OkCupid! graph of how to get replies for online dating.

Also, Twitter stats--the reasons I'm not on Twitter!

Of course, you can use facts to prove anything. :-)

[extemporanea]

Particularly if you're trying to prove that facts are beautiful :>.

I love the billion-dollar block one. It demonstrates in simple graphical format that human society is fundamentally insane.

[egadfly]

Ignore the Twitter stats. General stats may be meaningful for large groups but not for small, unusual populations - such as your friends. Twitter is exactly what you make it, which in your case I hope would be, and in our case I hope is, highly worthwhile. Try it out for a month, see if you like it :-)

[mwotn]

I find the one on the Afghan war particularly interesting - proves the virtue of guerrilla tactics, doesn'e?

This is also highly amusing, as well as pretty:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/timelines/

[extemporanea]

It is indeed beautiful, although I'm slightly miffed that there are no Doctor/Tardis threads. On the other hand the Doctor's peregrinations would snarl the beautiful curves up something 'orrible.

[mwotn]

Given the amount he gets about, too, I think we'd need a bigger bit of paper....

Now, if I had a suitably big bit of paper and enough time (and access to the requisite videos), this would be a superb excuse to watch the entire Dr Who back catalogue in the name of science...