Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2766832)

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the videogame history timeline (beta)

Game history timeline designed, programmed and compiled by Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga. This is an ongoing project. Feedback and comments are welcome.

Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2770992)

Graphic designer Kenichi Tanaka’s animated infographic “Japan — The Strange Country” covers everything you wanted to know about Japan,
but were too busy warbling along to the Cowboy Bebop closing credits song to ask.

In his words (Tanaka): "This is my final thesis project. I created info-graphic, motion piece. My objective is to make Japanese people to think about that everything happening here in Japan, isn’t that normal. So I created this video from foreigner’s point of view, rather than Japanese people’s point of view."

Watch it on vimeo -- Japan: The Strange Country
~ 11 min. in length, short doc.

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[feingut.]

Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2290943)

I wanted this to spark a discussion elsewhere, but I couldn't accurately decide where to put this video. I suppose I could have put it in General Discussion, but I shall just drop it here because it just might disappear in time.
FYI: This is a small documentary of sorts, which runs about 20 minutes in length.

Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2766524)

The ranks of millionaires, now more than ten million strong, are swelling one BRIC at a time. That's because Brazil, Russia, India, and China are enjoying some of the highest rates of growth in millionaires. According to an annual report on world wealth, the population of those with a million U.S. dollars in assets, not including home value, rose most last year in stock-strong India (up 23%), manufacturing giant China (20%), and ethanol-exporting Brazil (19%), with gas-and oil-rich Russia (14%) surging too. They're joining the usual suspects: the U.S. (the most millionaires total), Switzerland (most per capita), North America (per continent).

But whether you’re from a BRIC or an Old Money nation, a million bucks isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to global inflation, it's now worth a mere $455,000 in 1983 dollars.

So has being a millionaire lost its cachet? That’s rich. “The word is fixed in the popular imagination,” says sociologist Leonard Beeghley. “It’s still what people aspire to. Perception hasn’t caught up with economic reality.”
—Jeremy Berlin

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SHOW ME THE MONEY
In 2007, the world's 10.1 million millionaires were worth $40.7 trillion. These are the nations with the most millionaires per capita:

1 Switzerland (2.7% of population)
2 United Arab Emirates (1.8%)
3 Singapore (1.7%)
4 Norway (1.3%)
5 Japan (1.2%)
6 United States and Germany (1%)

GRAPHIC: OLIVER UBERTI, NG STAFF; ZACH FERRIOLA-BRUCKENSTEIN
SOURCE: CAPGEMINI/MERRILL LYNCH, WORLD WEALTH REPORT, 2008

[Nat'l Geo.]

Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2784888)

This Decade in... Cell Phones (click this link to view the infographical image, full-size)

Alternatively, if you are wary of links off-site, for whatever reason, I've encapsulated the image below, hotlinked, inside the [hide] tags.


more infographics pertaining to and relating solely towards cellphones and their functions can be found HERE