And to while away a quiet ten minutes at the weekend… August 16, 2008
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How about this from a site graphjam.com? I found the link in Wired magazine. Not so sure about Wired. Every issue I buy, which is only now and again, tends to be more or less the same. That said the design is great and it’s easy stuff if you want to relax.
Anyhow, as the accompanying piece in Wired notes:
Somewhere, chart guru Edward Tufte is squirming: This site’s homages to pop culture come in the form of perverted infographics. From the map indicating which countries a Flock of Seagulls deem “so far away” (Iran) to a bar graph illustrating the possibilities at the Hotel California (checking out: 100 percent; leaving: 0) and a flowchart for deciding what game console to buy (pivotal question: Do you have any friends?), GraphJam will give you newfound respect for the awesome power of Microsoft Excel.
Who’d have thunk that plain old MS Excel would have such entertainment possibilities? Anyhow, here are a few more examples for your consideration…
It’s entertaining, but soon gets a bit wearing in a way which can best be summed up by the following graph I made earlier…
Blimey…..Flock of Seagulls…hath been olde times of yore, in other words the 1980s. I recall someone in my class decided to have his hair done like the lead vocalist and was sent home as it was against school regulations. Very unfair.
I will endeavour to have a look at this Graphjam.com and to plot the entertainment value.
I remember a Flock of Seagulls fan in school telling me that the guitar was finished as a musical instrument… this would have been 81/82.
Doesn’t seem to have worked out that way. That said I do have AFOS’s Greatests Hits on CD.
I have to admit I liked Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) I always believed there were elements of OMD in there.
Absolutely. And OMD were a better band than their later more pop like exploits would have people believe…
Ballymena council certainly didn’t think so if I remember right.
Tell me more…
Didn’t they stop them playing there on the grounds of being Satanic music? I think they did.
I think it was ELO who were banned from Ballymena Showgrounds.
You’re right. My mistake.
And I’m so good at remembering what the various paramilitary acronymns stand for too
ELO? Surely not. Although if you play Mr. Blue Skies backward…
Did you had a Flokc-style hairdo, Harpy?