fun
Stars and bars and the occasional machine gun
On the heels of Jason’s post: more best-ever flags from Ben Pieratt. And it all reminds me of an old favorite: the we are multicolored flag generator.
I know half of my frosting is wasted… I just don’t know which half
Media needs new metrics. Pageviews and unique users are too crude, too homogenized. They don’t capture the nuance, the humanity, or, frankly, the power of the best audiences on the web today.
So, you remember Daily Drop Cap. Of course you do. It’s lovely. And it’s six days old.
Someone baked a Daily Drop Cap cake.
You’ve already guessed it, haven’t you? I propose time-to-cake as a new media metric—sort of a proxy for virality and engagement. Also, sometimes, for deliciousness. So, in this case, Daily Drop Cap scores a TTC of 6, which is pretty awesome.
Seriously, Modulok?
I admire the ambition of this Masters of the Universe riff. It imagines the characters as skinny hipsters dressed entirely in American Apparel attire. Which isn’t actually that funny, except that the artist does all of them. Keep scrolling! (Via Waxy.)
The book of the season
This made me laugh.
I know you’ve heard all about The Lost Symbol. But my friends, this is the book to watch!
It looks made-up, doesn’t it? Like, someone had to come up with the most inoffensive book title imaginable. I’m sure it’s a great book. I feel bad for making fun of it. But it did make me laugh.
This is the most useful graph ever plotted
Wow. Just wow. OkCupid crunches the numbers on first messages, correlating word usage with reply rates. Here’s just one of many—many—graphs they present:
My friends, we now have the data we need to construct, Serpentor-style, the perfect OkCupid profile. He will be a tattooed physics grad student who’s in a veg-metal band and is looking to date a smart, fun, attractive zombie. Right?
(I’m smiling at my screen in self-satisfaction right now, but the truth is, the OkCupid commenters have beat us to it. Once more: wow.)