Pop culture data representations

Many people have seen, or even made, drawings or illustrations depicting song lyrics either sincerely or sarcastically. But how many have made accurate data representations of pop culture? I will share with you some examples.

I like the cleverly inactive "Touch this"

Layers upon layers.










Biggie never said anything about it being linear though... he merely asserted that for the function f:money->problems, f'(x) > 0 for all x.

Triangles from folding

Using a square piece of paper, label each side 1 unit long. Find the midpoint of the top side by folding in half. Take the bottom right corner and fold it up to touch the midpoint of the top side. This creates three triangles. ABC, CDE, EFG. Determine the side lengths of all three triangles.

This was a nifty little problem given by Harold Jacobs at Asilomar 2007.

Prison Break

Having never seen Prison Break, I have gotten more and more confused about the premise. All of my knowledge comes from FOX's endless promotions of the show. Here's what I've pieced together:

Guy gets accused of a crime he didn't commit.
Brother gets into prison in order to help Guy break out.
Shenanigans ensue.
They break out and meet their father? or something

Now in the new season the Brother guy is back in prison? But, in like China or something?

I guess my main question is, how many times does he have to break out of prison?

Dr. House

My Halloween costume was "House" from the tv show House. "TV's most liked jerk." My limp was apparently very convincing as one woman offered to help me carry my backpack...

Ok after the pictures sat for a while and ripened on my camera, here's me as house, complete with poorly photoshopped background.

15 Laterals

So the NFL went to London last weekend, and Trinity of Texas decided to add a little rugby flair to their own game... You can also tell this is division III football by the distinctively "brah" accent of the color announcer.

Laughing Baby

While we all enjoy this laughing baby now, will Ethan still be laughing when the parents bring it out to show it to his high school prom date?

More baseball

A-rod apparently just opted out of his Yankee contract. And the Yankees said they wouldn't resign him if he did that. Boston next year! Unless he all of a sudden becomes altruistic and joins the A's...

Swisher 1B
Ellis 2B
Rodriguez SS
Chavez 3B

Now that's an infield.

Coors 1, Sam Adams 4 right now... c'mon Silver Bullets!