I always think about attening SxSW, but never do; so Naz’s SxSW Infographic Roundup will have to do

50 States In A Week’s Vacation (via)

Via Kottke comes the cool Social Explorer Maps which offer many visualizations of data. Most interesting are the slideshows illustrating movement of white New Yorker’s (1970’s White Flight) and movement of Black New Yorkers from 1910-2000 (settling Harlem, Brooklyn & Queens)

Martin Strel is swimming the entire Amazon River and has been swimming since 1 Feb 2007 and hopes to finish his swim in 70 days. You can track his progress on a Google maps mashup

This repo man drives off with ocean freighters

Some Valentine’s Day Links: Marian Bantjes: 150 hand drawn Valentines & The Comic Valentine of mid-Victorian England

How feasible is it to live in a van?

Taxonomy of Apocalypse Scenarios

Where can someone go to get her head clear for free in this country?

Diagrams: 15K people per hour, by transport mode