http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2011-04-10T23:39:00Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2011-04/2642/ <p>the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index">economist's democracy index</a> is kind of fascinating. is there a good discussion for the criteria anywhere? the 2010 document is <a href="http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy_Index_2010_web.pdf">here</a> and contains lots of good detail</p> 2011-04-10T23:39:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-12/2598/ <p>americans are <a href="http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who-has-money/">horribly misinformed</a> about who has money (hint: the rich have nearly all of it)</p> 2010-12-26T19:38:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-10/2381/ <p>time to <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/national/2987821/Save-the-planet-eat-a-dog">kill some dogs</a>. or a lot of hamsters</p> 2009-10-24T16:15:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-10/2374/ <p>i visit <a href="http://barackbar.com/">this page</a> about once an hour. it really helps</p> 2009-10-20T06:20:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-10/2365/ <p>this <a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-billion-dollar-gram/">visualization of relative costs</a> is quite wonderful</p> 2009-10-14T19:57:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-08/2305/ <p><a href="http://www.spyfilms.com/#neill_blomkamp/alive_in_joburg">alive in joberg</a> was the pre-cursor to the wonderful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9">district 9</a>. watch the former online and then rush to the cinema to see the latter. apart from the cat food bit. that was just gross</p> 2009-08-20T05:43:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-11/2031/ <p>these <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/">election map visualizations</a> are very nicely done. do you think the color-by-population was done by hand or with some fancy software?</p> 2008-11-10T18:29:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-10/2005/ <p>registered to vote in california? then <a href="http://www.noonprop8.com/">vote no on prop 8</a> to protect gay marriage</p> 2008-10-22T04:03:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-03/1579/ <p>this <a href="http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10927596">economist</a> article has a nice graphic showing the alignment of the uk and us political parties. amusing how far apart they are on some issue (such as religion). [via hamster]</p> 2008-03-31T20:40:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2005-08/977/ <p>christ - i know who i'll be <a href="http://www.walken2008.com/">voting for</a> ;)</p> 2005-08-15T17:41:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)