Pew News IQ Quiz: take it and be depressed

The Pew Research Center is offering an online news quiz aimed at gauging how news savvy the (American) public is. I think most people plugged into the daily news cycle — particularly the U.S. news cycle — should do pretty well.
You can compare your online results to those of “1,003 randomly sampled adults [who were] [...]

Election data: the right way to display

Check out this incredibly cool and effective interactive from the NYTimes. Despite the cuts and creakiness, The Grey Lady still does a lot of things well:

For me, it’s the actual animation that makes all the difference. The graph does a superb job of showing broad demographic shifts in a way that static graphics (and certainly [...]

The inevitable ballplayer-morality list

Not quite in the ‘hilarious’ category, but Radar Online has devoted one of its trademark top lists to the questionable morality of baseball players.
This stuff is like online Cheesies.. bad for you, but you can stop eating them. And then you have to figure out what to do with those disgusting orange fingers…

The Khadr video

It’s been the top story on most news sites all day, including BBC and CNN, and it’s not over yet. Video of CSIS’ interrogation of Omar Khadr in Gitmo has certainly captured the attention of the country. It’s at turns boring, dramatic, pathetic, and ultimately inconclusive, despite what his defence team says. Here’s the first [...]