October 14, 2009 @ 1:08 am
Portland, Oregon obviously wins the race here, but it looks like New York City slipped in at the end there with 0.7% of the population cycling to and from work. C’mon New York, let’s step up the game here and move higher up this list!
Oh, and yes, that bike there is from Republic Bike.
September 28, 2009 @ 5:54 pm
This handy chart will show you when it might be better to walk than wait for the next bus (assuming that you can either walk a 15 or 20 minute mile).
If you had a bike, you wouldn’t have to worry about either.
August 24, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
Mike Harding has created a website called Coffee By Week to track his coffee consumption through the end of the year.
You can click on each day of the week and see how many coffees he’s had. Mike also tracks the total of cups of coffee and how much he has spent on coffee which has so far totaled over $1000 for 199 days. I’m afraid to even begin tracking my own coffee consumption habits because I feel like they’d be greater than Mike’s.
August 21, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
A new report from UBS puts the average wage of an employee in 73 cities into perspective by showing us how long one would have to work in each city to purchase a McDonald’s Big Mac. If you love Big Macs, Nairobi is not the place for you to be living; Chicago on the other hand is lovely!
Thanks Caleb!
August 10, 2009 @ 11:49 am
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This infographic from a 2007 Time Magazine issue shows the spike in people per area that New York City handles during an average workday. It’s no secret that NYC is busier during the day than at night, but it’s always nice to see this fact shown as vertical graphs for a bigger effect.
Thanks Norman!
UPDATE: Steven over at Spatiality has graciously done the research and found out that the image above is part of a larger November 2007 Time Magazine interactive map showing various population rushes in America. The image was made by Joe Lertola. Also, I replaced the image above with a clearer version from Urban Omnibus.
August 4, 2009 @ 10:58 pm
This handy beef chart is courtesy of the Cattleman’s Beef Board and the National Cattleman’s Beef Association, two groups advocating the safe care of cattle and consumption of beef in the United States. You can click on the image above to see it a bit larger, or you can download this chart as a handy PDF (to print out and hang in your kitchen).
I honestly had no idea there were so many different cuts of beef. Thanks Monster-Munch!
