I noticed this last night, as did Atrios:

Some genius at CNN decided that the best way to present results - both on the pie charts and on the map - was to make Romney deep red, McCain light red, Giuliani orange, Huckabee light orange…

Here’s a screen shot from the CNN website:

Gee, it’s been years since I last commented about a logo, but this is too hard to pass up.

Hat tip to Daily Kos, who also adds all the reasons that this logo “truly encapsulates what the Republican Party is all about.”

Wide stance? Check.
In Minneapolis? Check.
Prison stripe-wearing? Check.
Starry eyed? Check.
As for the elephant humping the [...]

Okay, as an old fart, I’m marginally into Web 2.0 stuff. Not so much the networking stuff (MySpace, LinkedIn, etc), but I have been blogging (on and off) since 2001, I love Flickr, and I have even uploaded a few of my own YouTube videos.
But I was recently turned on to Slideshare, and am just [...]

So, I was doing my regular read of Salon, and came across today’s feature article about American soldiers fleeing to Canada.
The article was interesting, but what caught my eye was this picture:

and this caption underneath (emphasis mine):
Above: Kyle Snyder, a 23-year-old U.S. Army deserter who fled to Vancouver, in front of a map of [...]

This one went into the queue when I was doing my renewal, but better late than never. I ran across this post from Presentation Zen which is largely about the Tufte vs Powerpoint smackdown.
Re PPT, the highlights for me are those which counter Tufte’s position: Don Norman’s “In defense of Powerpoint” and Jean-luc Doumont’s The [...]

Nags Head 20006

Okay, I’m really late to the party, but I’m finally on Flickr. The first batch are photos from Nags Head with my new Panasonic DMC-F27.
The Panasonic doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of a digital SLR, but it is ridiculously light and flexible (the 12x optical zoom gives you an effective range [...]

I have a couple of friends who are doing cool visual blogging. Mike Lee spends most of his time moblogging these days with his Sidekick, but he is an amazingly talented photographer/digital artist. Mark Carpenter is a business guy by day, but Flick addict/moblogger by night. For a guy with an MBA, he seems to [...]