Kicking while he’s out: Someone managed to put together a real-time graphic showing the decline of Mitt Romney’s Facebook Like count since he lost the election on Tuesday. In the past four and a half hours, he’s lost 2,500 fans — though it’s possible that some of them are spam accounts. The creator of the visualization better hope Romney doesn’t get a gig on “Dancing With the Stars.” (ht Hacker News)
If this image of a word cloud makes you angry, we have the article for you. (thanks Charles Apple)
Development Seed used data released by the U.S. Geological Survey to create the above maps of the 5.8 earthquake that rocked the Eastern seaboard on Aug. 23
As visualizations of cathedral-damaging earthquakes go, this is one of the better ones.