a set of fascinating (artistic) information graphics by Stefanie Posavec, depicting the literary organisms, rhythm textures, sentence lengths & structures of Jack Kerouac’s literary space. some of the graphics depict literary components (words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters) as visual elements with color representing content (e.g. travel, character sketch, work & survival, social events), & size representing the relative length of the sentences in comparison to the longest sentence in the book.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an
extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast
to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and
powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav.
