thanks for pointing me to Visualizing Economics... love the site - Mark Williamson via twhirl

Same - great site ! - David Th

Would really like to see another line added for the mean income. - Ken Sheppardson

My favorite detail is the fact that the Gulf War was so short that it needed to be written vertically. - James Cham

Meanwhile, the price of bread has tripled and the hours of labor extended. - Thomas T. Panto

Embedding is disabled for this video, so you have to click through. (Any chance FF can detect that and not offer the direct play button?) - Tom

"Why is this not obvious to people from the MPG information? It is because comparing MPG don’t directly reflect the cost differences. In Europe they present efficiency measures I liters per 100 kilometers, and this seems to be a much more intuitive measure." - Tom via Bookmarklet

my preseason pick, they earned it. hope they can do it again next year! - grant

"Each adapter will act like a hub that several devices can plug into. The first are expected to go on sale in the first quarter next year for under US$100, Chang said. The adapters also will shut off the power supply when a device has finished charging or is turned off, giving further energy savings." - Tom

Not the expected result (for me), but I'm guessing this is a feature not a bug ... and evidence that I probably misunderstand the intention behind rooms. =) - Tom

Part of the purpose of rooms was to separate your posts, so, e.g., I can post a bunch of geeky stuff to a room and my family doesn't need to see it. That said, posting to multiple places at once is a common request, so we need to make it easier. - Bret Taylor

"If you have your own notions about the Google favicon, please send them to us. We'll do our best to work them in, and maybe your idea will be the one that people see billions of times per day." - Tom

NYTimes interactive graphic that shows the different parts of the average consumer’s budget and the change in price (inflation) over the last year. This post highlights gasoline with its 5.2% share of spending and price increase of 26%. - Tom

"Left-hander Jon Lester beat cancer and clinched Boston's World Series title last year. On Monday night, he added another memorable chapter by tossing a no-hitter." - Tom

"Cicero, while we are quoting the ancients, once defined freedom as participation in power. I think it is the best definition of freedom that I have heard. Freedom is participating in power such as a deliberative democracy, such as government, such as corporations, such as trade unions. People have to participate in those areas of power that affect their lives so intimately." - Tom

Some additional languages for supported for translation via JavaScript: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Swedish - Tom

"A new study shows that people in wealthier countries are more likely to be satisfied with their lives. Earlier research had suggested that satisfaction did not necessarily increase once basic needs were met." - Tom