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Cartoon: Voting machines

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It’s said that the electoral process in democracies has three important parts.

What happens before the voting – who you can vote for and how these are selected and can communicate, the voting itself, and what happens afterwards once the votes have been cast.

Well I guess that means one down.

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Recession: The Movie

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The trailer for the latest movie from the producers of “The Iraq War”. Now playing at a theater near you.

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Leo Burnett: Future trends in advertising

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A typographic video about the latest advertising trends predictions report from Leo Burnett / Arc.

The report was created by Ben Hourahine, Futures Editor at Leo Burnett (London). The predictions in the video include…

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Image: Why choose if you can combine?

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The best two versions we found of the more and more popular Barack O’Clinton images on the web.

Why choose if you can combine ?

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Data-visualization: Charting The Banking Crisis

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The web log “And Still I Persist” has made two interesting implementations available that demonstrate how data-visualization tools similar to “Gapminder’s Trendalyzer” can be used to show patterns in vast amounts of data.

They used OSG’s Boomerang technology to show changes in banks’ mortgage portfolios based on the data the banks have reported to the FDIC. The first chart / animation shows the amounts of 90+ days late mortgages and the second one visualizes the changed amounts in mortgages that…

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Street-Art: London as an Open Prison

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These signs are currently popping up all over London.

An excellent idea to create awareness of the planned ID card project in the UK. You find more images of this great poster “here”, “here” and “here”.

We refrain from commenting on the subject directly (in our opinion the issues…

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