I recently ran across an amazing infographic at xkcd. I have summarized it below.

Revolutions in Time

Words and Years is a series of graphs based on research in various academic journals and magazines. Going through the complete volumes of the journals from the first issues up until today, selected words are higlighted [sic] and the frequency of their use is mapped.

Logic and Love in Art

Miracles in Nature and Science

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The 1000 memories blog has a nice post that provides a kind of best guess approach to quantifying the world's existing photos. Their estimate: 3.5 trillion.

Interestingly, they note that Facebook is the world's largest photo library, holding 180 billion photos.

Read more about it here.

For a short while back in September, DLB was working in collaboration with our long-time friend Dan over at Barack Obama HQ. During the course of that collaboration, we generated a video about the cost of the Iraq War, which, because of the constant issue shuffle, never really made sense for the campaign. We talked to him again today, and got the go-ahead to just upload it to YouTube ourselves. So, if you've got any friends or family who are still undecided, maybe now's a good time to remind them about the the other 1.9 trillion dollars the current administration's taken away from American infrastructure, education, and social welfare.

Here's a handy url to pass along to your friends: http://tr.im/1pt9. Don't forget to vote tomorrow!