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via lawsofsimplicity.com

Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009 from Wired, including a simulation of “The Big One” with wave patterns across Southern California (via @DougStanley14).

Click through for the full graphic: Reduce Your Chances of Dying in a Plane Crash by David McCandless of Information is Beautiful.

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Visualization of my Facebook friend network from Nexus. It’s fascinating to see the groupings and connectors among these friends.

(thanks @DougStanley14)

Scott McCloud Podcast Interview →

He mentions Edward Tufte among his influences; good discussion about visual expression and narrative.

"Many of our examples suggest that clarity and excellence in thinking is very much like clarity and excellence in the display of data. When principles of design replicate principles of thought, the act of arranging information becomes an act of insight."

— Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations

"If you look after truth and goodness, Beauty looks after herself."

— Eric Gill

Loose Tweets Sink Fleets from Brian Moore’s WWII Propaganda Posters

"Painters in the grand style were not concerned with style - they drew with clarity and rigor. Style was born from their work, and just as thought does not think about the sound of its voice nor even the rhythm, but creates them through its act - so they did not … Style must arise naturally from one’s attention to an object and it disappears as the awareness of this attention decreases."

— Paul Valéry

Amazing post-it stop motion (via @DougStanley14)

Improving Traffic Flow with Variable Tolls →

The section of this article titled The No-Rush Hour in Southern California describes the variable pricing used on the 91 Express Lanes.  Prices vary by hour of the day and day of the week (up to $1 per mile during peak times) which provide not only quick access for drivers, but a market-based test for identifying where more capacity is needed.

"Fundamentally, humans are all designed in a similar way, so products that make life easier for one group are likely to help others too."

— Tema Frank, Helping Seniors Helps Everybody, User Experience Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 1