Lacking in Style & Substance

transitmaps: Fantasy Map: River Song’s Timeline Relative to the Doctor’s Note: Spoilers, sweetie! Both on the map and in the text! For those people who just have to know the order that things happen in, this is the map for you! Created by a designer at Doctor Who Online, this all looks pretty plausible to me, although I don’t lie awake at night wondering about temporal paradoxes and crossing one’s own time stream. It even includes River’s appearances in related video games and Season 6 DVD-exclusive mini-episodes, as well as untelevised adventures like the infamous “Jim the Fish”. The one thing I would add is a line from River’s death in the Library (Forest of the Dead with the 10th Doctor) to her (final?) appearance in The Name of the Doctor, as it’s her data ghost that is stored in the Library after her death that appears in that episode. Putting my obvious fanboy love of this map aside, it is nice to see the subway map metaphor used intelligently here: the “interchanges” between “routes” (River’s and the Doctor’s separate time streams) actually mean something and help to visually explain a very complex narrative. That it also ends up looking like a big ball of timey-wimey stuff is an added bonus. Source: Doctor Who Online — click through to see a much bigger (legible) version of the map. 

transitmaps:

Fantasy Map: River Song’s Timeline Relative to the Doctor’s

Note: Spoilers, sweetie! Both on the map and in the text!

For those people who just have to know the order that things happen in, this is the map for you!

Created by a designer at Doctor Who Online, this all looks pretty plausible to me, although I don’t lie awake at night wondering about temporal paradoxes and crossing one’s own time stream. It even includes River’s appearances in related video games and Season 6 DVD-exclusive mini-episodes, as well as untelevised adventures like the infamous “Jim the Fish”.

The one thing I would add is a line from River’s death in the Library (Forest of the Dead with the 10th Doctor) to her (final?) appearance in The Name of the Doctor, as it’s her data ghost that is stored in the Library after her death that appears in that episode.

Putting my obvious fanboy love of this map aside, it is nice to see the subway map metaphor used intelligently here: the “interchanges” between “routes” (River’s and the Doctor’s separate time streams) actually mean something and help to visually explain a very complex narrative. That it also ends up looking like a big ball of timey-wimey stuff is an added bonus.

Source: Doctor Who Online — click through to see a much bigger (legible) version of the map. 

NHL Draft 2013: An Interactive Visualization of Drafts of Years Past

roadjerseys:

Using Tableau software, I’ve put together this draft dashboard. It took weeks of compiling data from hockey DB (all dumped into one really big excel file) but FINALLY, a month before the draft,…

Check out where your NHL team tends to draft players from with this handy dandy visualization!

ilovecharts: Interactive Guide For Comparing the Speeds of Famed Sci-Fi Ships

ilovecharts:

Interactive Guide For Comparing the Speeds of Famed Sci-Fi Ships

ihateyourfavoriteteam:

Ug No Kings nooooo. And that’s why you shouldn’t let ANYONE who’s not a working employee in the media department have the team Twitter account. MEDIA EMPLOYEES ONLY. Stop letting celebrities tweet during games. It’s not as cool as you think it is. They don’t all have proper filters/working brains and may go and make rape jokes during the game. Jesus Christ. 

Yup. Takeovers are okay if you have someone sitting over their shoulder approving tweets before you post them.

Max Domi makes an amazing move and goes between the legs to set up Bo Horvat, who snipes it in flight to bring the Knights within one in Game 4. (x)

I see you Max Domi.

(Source: stefanfournier)

bri-ecrit: Gus is making a very strong case that he is adorkable enough to make the Flyers’ roster again next year. :D

bri-ecrit:

Gus is making a very strong case that he is adorkable enough to make the Flyers’ roster again next year.

:D

(via dougthethughamilton)

ilovecharts: Things Yahoo! Has Made Better

ilovecharts:

Things Yahoo! Has Made Better

Prince Harry taking a swing at baseball.

I love the BBC commentator trying to describe baseball. But, my favorite part of this video is when he’s about to say that the Yankees are the Manchester United of baseball. So funny to hear it that way, rather than Manchester United are the Yankees of EPL.

(Source: youtube.com)

thedailywhat: Coming Soon of the Day: Neil Degrasse Tyson Will Host the Sequel of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos Though it’s been quietly in the works since 2011, Fox has officially confirmed that Carl Sagan’s monumental 1970 sci-ed miniseries Cosmos: A Personal Voyage will be getting an updated sequel next year, which will consist of 13 episodes produced by Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane and hosted by one of the Internet’s most celebrated astrophysicists, Neil Degrasse Tyson. Fox is hoping the show will have as much as of cultural impact as Carl Sagan’s original series, which still remains one of the most watched PBS series in the world to this day. (Image by Richard Davies)

thedailywhat:

Coming Soon of the Day: Neil Degrasse Tyson Will Host the Sequel of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos

Though it’s been quietly in the works since 2011, Fox has officially confirmed that Carl Sagan’s monumental 1970 sci-ed miniseries Cosmos: A Personal Voyage will be getting an updated sequel next year, which will consist of 13 episodes produced by Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane and hosted by one of the Internet’s most celebrated astrophysicists, Neil Degrasse Tyson. Fox is hoping the show will have as much as of cultural impact as Carl Sagan’s original series, which still remains one of the most watched PBS series in the world to this day.

(Image by Richard Davies)