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Apple’s Stack of Cash Would Be 32 Times Higher Than The Space Station

10:00PM January 25, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

If you stack every single dollar bill in Apple’s $US97 billion cash reserves, you would reach 10594km into space. That’s about 32 times the altitude of the International Space Station. It would look pretty much like this.

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US Congress Crawling Out Of The Woodwork To Oppose SOPA

5:30PM January 20, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

See? Congress does listen to the will of the people on occasion — especially when that will is wielded as a blunt instrument. As this infographic from ProPublica illustrates, yesterday’s blackout protests not only culled the official SOPA supporters by 15 congressmen, it actually added 70 opponents. More »

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An Epic Timeline Of Doctor Who Doctors

4:30PM December 29, 2011 | Danny Allen

You guys know Elly, right? She’s our awesome night editor. She’s been getting into the Doctor lately, but before Christmas she sat at her desk in disbelief: “Hey, there’s more than one actor who plays the Doctor?” Exactly. So Elly, this is for you. Don’t hate me (or spit in my coffee mug while I’m in Las Vegas). We love ya. More »

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Obama’s 2012 Budget Visualised: Defence Loses, Education Wins

5:30AM November 1, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Compared to the 2010 and 2011 editions, the 2012 edition of the Death and Taxes poster shows some surprises. The first one: military spending is down all across the board while education, transportation and renewable energy win. More »

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Printing Infographics On Money Shows Reality Of Occupy Wall Street

10:00AM October 17, 2011 | Casey Chan

There’s something going on with Occupy Wall Street — good, bad, monumental, anarchy, I don’t know — but there is a clear disparity between the 1 per cent and the 99 per cent, and the voice of the 99 per cent is slowly ringing louder. Here’s one way to get the 1 per cent to pay even more attention: taint their money. More »

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Stop Already With The Stupid ‘Infographics’

3:20AM October 4, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Over the last year, the explosion of these abominations called “infographics” has gotten overwhelming. The number of design-deficient morons making these is so ridiculous that you can fill an island with them. I’d do that. And then nuke it. More »

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Facebook Photo Library Dwarfs Everything Else In The Planet

12:19AM September 20, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Check out the gigantic volume of photos now stored in Facebook compared to Flickr, the Library of Congress and Instagram. I knew they were big, but I never imagined the difference could be so huge. 140 billion photos! It defies belief. More »

Graphic Biographies Are Fun — Except For That Hitler Bastard

1:00AM August 27, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

See if you can understand these famous characters bio-pictograms, from Darth Vader to Bruce Lee to Jesus, the Bible character. Like our friends at Data Visualization say: don’t take them too seriously. More »