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December 16, 2004

Red State, Blue State Visualization

Kerry's greatest strength was the great metro cities:

Click to enlarge.

Another land mass for Bush county-wide view, with winner take all colouring:

and in shades of purple to show majority but not unanimity:

and uglier shades of purple:

[via mejn]

and some pie-chart like versions to show the division within each state:

[via Krups]

[via Wonkete]

That is to say, it's all about population density, cultural hub,
all about the much-touted "redneck revenge" on the "liberal elite"
for unleashing, I suppose, small European cars and artisan cheese
and "Queer Eye" and "The West Wing" on them without their express
written consent. It is, in short, all about Retro vs. Metro.
-- Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle, 2004 November 12.

Posted by omor at 07:34 PM | Comments (1)

December 11, 2004

usability error: Enlarge means uncrop at NYT

Enlarge means uncrop at the New York Times.

If you see a picture, and see beside it a button labeled
Enlarge, you might expect that selecting that button would
cause to be displayed a larger version of the same picture.

Zoom in. Go bigger. More detail.

But not at NYT. At NYT, enlarge may in fact give you a
smaller picture.

Below, Bernard Kerik's head is smaller in the enlarged version of the
photo of him standing outside his house in Franklin Lakes, NJ.