{"id":2368,"date":"2011-11-22T11:09:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2011-11-22T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:14:10","slug":"random-things-culled-from-the-interwebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2011\/11\/random-things-culled-from-the-interwebs\/","title":{"rendered":"Random things culled from the Interwebs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a bit of an infographic contest with a friend of mine.  Every couple of days she&#8217;ll send me a link to an infographic by email. I, in turn, will counter with a link to another infographic.  It&#8217;s really a modern, data fueled one-up-manship contest just like those you might overhear in a pub on a Friday night&#8230;only with visuals.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, here are a few things we&#8217;ve both found interesting in the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<h2><em>The Story of Broke<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Brought to you by Annie Leonard (<em>The Story of Stuff<\/em>, <em>The Story of Electronics<\/em>) and the fabulous team at Free Range Studios, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.org\/movies-all\/story-of-broke\/\">The Story of Broke<\/a><\/em> &#8220;calls for a shift in government spending toward investments in clean, green solutions\u00e2\u20ac\u201drenewable energy, safer chemicals and materials, zero waste and more\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat can deliver jobs AND a healthier environment. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to rebuild the American Dream; but this time, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s build it better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G49q6uPcwY8?rel=0&amp;hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement<\/h2>\n<p>The Datablog at <em>The Guardian<\/em> regularly produces fabulous graphics from unimpeachable data sources.  For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2011\/nov\/16\/occupy-protests-data-video\">this article<\/a> and animation they take a look the Occupy movement&#8217;s slogan that it represents &#8220;the 99%&#8221; to determine if that figure is accurate.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"460\" height=\"370\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/video\/embed\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"endpoint=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/video\/2011\/nov\/16\/99-v-1-occupy-data-animation\/json\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/video\/embed\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"460\" height=\"370\" flashvars=\"endpoint=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/video\/2011\/nov\/16\/99-v-1-occupy-data-animation\/json\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<h2>XKCD: Money (pretty much all of it)<\/h2>\n<p>The great thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\">XKCD<\/a> is that it&#8217;s a comic but it&#8217;s also drawn by a massive geek which means there are sometimes great opportunities for data presented visually.  <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/980\/\">Monday&#8217;s cartoon<\/a> is all about money visually representing how much it takes to do certain things.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2370\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/980\/huge\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/money_small.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click to see a bigger version\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/money_small.png 420w, https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/money_small-400x267.png 400w, https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/money_small-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/980\/huge\/\">XKCD from 21 November 2011<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a bit of an infographic contest with a friend of mine. Every couple of days she&#8217;ll send me a link to an infographic by email. I, in turn, will counter with a link to another infographic. It&#8217;s really a modern, data fueled one-up-manship contest just like those you might overhear in a pub [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nablopomo-2011","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}