The Omnibrain is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, he is really a Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology studying high level vision. You know... stuff like scene & object perception.
While not an official contributer to 'Of Two Minds,' Shelley's sidekick is an African Grey parrot named Pepper. His heros are Irene Pepperberg, Alex, and Rachel Carson. He spends his time learning Mandarin and writing the Great American novel.
The guys from I Can Haz Cheezburger? have come up with a new website for all of you to submit random crap to. This one, instead of being based on cats, is based on graphs. According to Wired:
Unlike creating lolcats, which requires just a photo and a grasp of the broken English of kitty pidgin, GraphJam requires readers to come up with concepts and create pie charts, histograms and bar graphs. Daunting for sure, but the potential for moments of meme-genius is there.
There don't seem to be many funny graphs up yet but I'm sure there will be some to come. Here is one that I almost chuckled at:
see more funny graphs
Humanities & Social Science
Comments
An older graph-humour favourite:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/02/hilarious-piechartvi.html
Posted by: Janne | March 29, 2008 10:55 AM
Crappy Graphs is a good one as well.
Posted by: badchemist | March 30, 2008 3:07 PM
My personal favorite
Posted by: Left_Wing_Fox | April 3, 2008 6:10 PM