Pocket Noodle - Eventually, everything connects

• The Crisis of Credit – The credit crisis explained using infographics. Nice work from Jonathan Jarvis.
• DC Website Stencil Kit – Neat idea, a stainless steel stencil for prototyping websites.
• Twecipe – Twitter tool that lets you tweet ingredients and sends a recipe back.

• Interactive Twitter Friends Browser from Neuro Productions.
• Love the infographics that appear in this article on new methods in terrorist violence from the NY Times.
• How to live in Twitter and still stay productive – Top tips on staying on top of your Twitter addiction from Mashable.

• Favela – Fantastic looking cardboard model from Toykyo. Wish I had the time to make something like this.
• Loving my copy of Visual Aid from Draught Associates. Great infographics covering stuff you know and should know.
• Book you seats for Lincoln School of Art & Design’s Design Auction to be held at St Brides on 19th March. Lots of goodies to be had.

• ‘We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence‘. – Simon Hoegsberg’s 100m photograph shot over 20 days in the same location. More of his photographic projects can be found here.
• Visual Literacy has some useful visualisation tools including the ‘Periodic Table of Visualisation Methods‘.
• MapTube – Mapping site from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. There’s some nice map mash-ups including a geographically correct London Tube map and one that maps the credit crunch.

The animated history of the Internet told using pictorial communication language (PICOL) icons.

• Fantastic looking data visualisation concepts for Google from Grid Plane.
• Userfly – Instant usability testing tool that captures and displays user browsing sessions through adding one line of javascript.
• 12 Standard Screen Patterns, the first of a four part series from Bill Scott and Theresa Neil’s forthcoming book ‘Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions‘. A must have for interaction designer.

• FlowingData’s 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year which includes my favourite programme from last year, the BBC’s ‘Britain from Above‘.
• Inspired Inspirers – Nice idea for a site, find out who and what inspires creatives.
• New weights and styles for Obama’s favourite typeface, Hoefler & Frere-Jones Gotham. Though it doesn’t seem to be used for the updated whitehouse.gov.

Travel site Dooplr have recently generated ‘Personal Annual Reports‘ for all its users which features a breakdown of personal travel taken in 2008.

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With ‘Words that sum up Bush’s America‘, the BBC makes good use of Wordle
to show the most used words in Bush’s State of the Union Addresses. There’s also some interesting analytics on the usage of words following key world events.

• Great looking ‘City Railway Maps‘ of Seoul, Tokyo and Osaka from Zero per Zero.
• A ‘Motorway Map of England, Scotland and Wales‘ in the style of Harry Beck’s iconic ‘ London Underground map’
• Five Second Test – Simple online usability testing for user interface effectiveness.