2012-02-06T13:33:57+00:00 Hellovetica - politics http://www.hellovetica.com/hello/politics/ hello@hellovetica.com hello:1302478746 2011-04-10T18:39:06+00:00 2011-04-10T18:39:06+00:00 the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index">economist's democracy index</a> is kind of fascinating. is there a good discussion for the criteria anywhere? the 2010 document is <a href="http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy_Index_2010_web.pdf">here</a> and contains lots of good detail hello:1293392319 2010-12-26T13:38:39+00:00 2010-12-26T13:38:39+00:00 americans are <a href="http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who-has-money/">horribly misinformed</a> about who has money (hint: the rich have nearly all of it) hello:1256400935 2009-10-24T11:15:35+00:00 2009-10-24T11:15:35+00:00 time to <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/national/2987821/Save-the-planet-eat-a-dog">kill some dogs</a>. or a lot of hamsters hello:1256019612 2009-10-20T01:20:12+00:00 2009-10-20T01:20:12+00:00 i visit <a href="http://barackbar.com/">this page</a> about once an hour. it really helps hello:1255550247 2009-10-14T14:57:27+00:00 2009-10-14T14:57:27+00:00 this <a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-billion-dollar-gram/">visualization of relative costs</a> is quite wonderful hello:1250747036 2009-08-20T00:43:56+00:00 2009-08-20T00:43:56+00:00 <a href="http://www.spyfilms.com/#neill_blomkamp/alive_in_joburg">alive in joberg</a> was the pre-cursor to the wonderful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9">district 9</a>. watch the former online and then rush to the cinema to see the latter. apart from the cat food bit. that was just gross hello:1226341781 2008-11-10T12:29:41+00:00 2008-11-10T12:29:41+00:00 these <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/">election map visualizations</a> are very nicely done. do you think the color-by-population was done by hand or with some fancy software? hello:1224648182 2008-10-21T23:03:02+00:00 2008-10-21T23:03:02+00:00 registered to vote in california? then <a href="http://www.noonprop8.com/">vote no on prop 8</a> to protect gay marriage hello:1206996053 2008-03-31T15:40:53+00:00 2008-03-31T15:40:53+00:00 this <a href="http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10927596">economist</a> article has a nice graphic showing the alignment of the uk and us political parties. amusing how far apart they are on some issue (such as religion). [via hamster] hello:1124127716 2005-08-15T12:41:56+00:00 2005-08-15T12:41:56+00:00 christ - i know who i'll be <a href="http://www.walken2008.com/">voting for</a> ;)