Category Archives: Graphic Design

Beowulf‘s uncanny valley

(With apologies to Back to the Future‘s Hill Valley.) Briefly, the uncanny valley is a theory from robotics that predicts we will have positive responses to robots if they are either a) indistinguishable from humans or b) obviously not human. However, there is a “valley” of uncanny-ness as a robot takes on more human characteristics. [...]

Inconvenience visualization

Map of the NYC subway system, 8/8/2007 Here’s the normal map, for comparison. I found this on Gothamist, but I can’t find the original source for attribution. This map is being pretty generous.

Global warming complete, according to popular analytics software

It looks like Michigan was the clear winner after the Great Lakes dried up.