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Time to geek out with some humorous items related to data viz. I find these items most curious, because they hint at the growing social acceptance of visualizations as a popular forms of communication -- no longer restricted to the financial graphs, scientific models or 8th grade math class.

1 - demetrimartin.com - this guy does some sort of stand-up data viz comedy, clever and inspiring as data viz relates to art.

2 - graphjam.com - a gathering of data viz graph/chart humor of diverse quality. Here are two classics from the 80's...

Just had to post this explosive visualization app called Solar, built by this guy Robert Hodgin. It's a music/lyric visualization built with Processing, must take a lot of juice to run, but it's hot hot.

Aside from the standard visualization resources out there (visualcomplexity.com, infosthetics.com and flowingdata.com...), here are some interesting pools of visualization:

Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About