Today in Horrible Infographics: The Rise of Multi-Screen Content Consumpiton

Courtesy of Jason Oberholtzer

Today In Horrible Infographics: The Rise of Multi-Screen Content Consumption

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"We Built This" - Think Again RNC

Most Republicans think they got rich, just because they did.  Or they became successful on their own.  I'm not talking about the struggling Republicans who are on welfare and food stamps just around the corner from you, but the hard-working Republicans who think firefighters, teachers, policemen (you know all those who receive funds from the government) should be removed from the system.  Oh wait, even the poor Republicans think that way, yet they don't seem to know that by voting President Obama out of office will be a sure way they will never get their government food stamps and welfare checks. What hypocrites, I swear.  Hell, these people are having a convention in a building that was built with 62% of your government funds.  Oh and I can almost guarantee it was built by "illegal immigrants" too.

I stumbled across a wonderful blog on Tumblr, "Tumbling the Conventions," and I had to share a wonderful statement from author, Jason Oberholtzer.

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The theme for the Republican National Convention is “We Built This!” which aims to underline the GOP’s counterpoint to an Obama vagary of pronoun usage last month, where he said the following:

If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

Ironically, this year’s “We Built This!” RNC is being held in The Tampa Bay Times Forum arena, which was built in 1996 with 62% government funds.
- Jason

What a Hot Mess: Google Searches of Countries or Continents

The wonderful Jason Oberholtzer from I Love Charts has pointed out something I never realized about Google when it comes to doing a search of countries or continents.

Don't do this at work - trust me, it's not safe.  But when you search "European", "American", or "African", you pull up lovely images of flags, culture and history;  But when you search "Asian" it's not a pretty picture.  What a Hot Mess!

The chart below is an example - it's been edited for safe viewing.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly!

Income and Population Centers Around the World

Take a look at this awesome chart provided by Jason Oberholtzer over at Forbes.

The National Geographic put together a rather pretty map of where in the world our nearly seven billion people people live. Then they added income class categorizations and a lot of statistics. What does their map show?

 Where and How We Live: Income and Population Centers Around the World

Planning to Retire? Maybe We Should Move to France or Slovakia.

Courtesy of a musician, composer, blogger and writer based in Cambridge, MA., Jason Oberholtzer, brings us this awesome chart...

Planning on retiring early? Perhaps relocating to Slovakia or Austria is the right move. Maybe France would be a good fit. By all means, avoid Mexico and South Korea. Here’s a handy retirement chart to look at while I brush up on my French. 

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