November 30, 2009

Map O’ The Day #181 - Tire Information

Category: Uncategorized — Tags: , , – Grant Smith @ 6:09 pm

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Today’s MOTD is a followup to a previous infographic about how to change a tire. Today’s explains the different markings on a tire and gives you all the information you need to successfully replace your blow out.

November 20, 2009

Map O’ The Day #180 - Proper Posture

Category: Health — Tags: , – Grant Smith @ 5:01 pm

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Today’s MOTD is very good knowledge for everyone that is reading this post right now. People are spending a lot more time in front of computers, without understanding the consequences of posture. Improper posture can lead to painful lasting injuries including carpal tunnel syndrome, shoulder and back pain, eyestrain and lumbar and lower back problems.

Designer Devon Morgan has made this exceptional infographic to help you improve you posture.

November 18, 2009

Map O’ The Day #179 - The Pasons-White Stringbender

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Today’s MOTD is a look at the inside of a guitar modified with a Parsons-White Stingbender.

The B-Bender was invented in 1967 by musicians Gene Parsons and Clarence White of Nashville West and The Byrds. The device was originally called the Parsons/White Pull-String, later renamed the StringBender, and is now best known as the B-Bender. Early prototypes developed by Parsons (a machinist as well as a drummer) included multiple bending devices for the E, B, G and D strings, but guitarist White decided he preferred a single B string bender in the final design. The B string is bent up a full tone by pulling the guitar neck down. This puts pressure on the strap, which is attached to a spring-loaded lever at the base of the neck. The lever arm passes through the body of the guitar and is connected to the B string behind the bridge. White’s 1956 Telecaster with the original Pull-String is now owned and regularly played by Marty Stuart.

In 1973 Parsons started making and installing the Pull-String himself, and renamed it the StringBender. He eventually made as many as 2,000 custom installations for guitarists including Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin.

November 17, 2009

Map O’ The Day #178 - Tsunameter

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Today’s MOTD comes from The National Environmental Agenency Of Singapore. It is a graphic showing the equipment used to detect rogue waves and tsunami’s.

November 13, 2009

Map O’ The Day #177 - Where’s The Beef?

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Today’s main MOTD is from the National Cattleman’s Beef Association and uses a blackboard technique to clearly illustrated what part of a cow different cuts of beef come from and what their recommended preparation for consumption is.

The second graphic is meant to be a supplement to the top graphic, this time using an actual carcass, to more accurately explain the butchering process.

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The third graphic represents the average yearly consumption rates of beef in different countries, it is not a depiction of what parts of beef are consumed.

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November 12, 2009

Map O’ The Day #176 - Cricket: Get With It

Category: Sports — Tags: , , , – Grant Smith @ 2:24 pm

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Today’s MOTD continues our on-going series, get to know a sport. After my complaining yesterday about not being able to find fresh content, i dug into my collected resource folder and pulled out a gem. It is a newspaper infographic from www.pakistanintelligencer.com depicting visually the rules and how to play the sport of cricket.

November 11, 2009

Map O’ The Day #175 - Espresso

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I pulled this image yesterday from a bigger infographic, before Digg got ahold of It (glad to see people really embracing infographics but it is making it hard to bring you fresher content, sorry if you have seen this before). I thought this was the best and most visually informative piece of the bigger post that I will not be linking to.

November 9, 2009

Map O’ The Day #174 - Tree Of Life

Category: Health — Tags: , – Grant Smith @ 1:42 pm

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Another in our series of Forbes vintage infographics, today’s MOTD shows the way that our political predecessors classified health care and is a good comparison/contrast of the preventive concerns they were facing back then, as opposed to those we face today.

November 6, 2009

Map O’ The Day #173 - 1940’s Whiskey Distillery

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Today’s MOTD is from Forbes magazine circa 1942. I found a catalog of vintage Forbes infographics and will be sharing some of them with you to show the timelessness of visual information. This first vintage infographic is of Hiram Walker’s whiskey distillery and clearly shows all of the steps from corn kernel to alcohol. I am not a distiller myself, but would believe the process, as well as, the content of the message has also held up to the scrutiny of time.

November 5, 2009

Map O’ The Day #172 - How To Change A Tire

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Today’s MOTD was created by Enrique Tejero, a graduate from Vancouver Film School. The infographic explains how to change a tire and would be very useful to print out and slip in the trunk next to a jack in yours…or a loved ones, vehicle.