A visualisation of how long you have left

Boing Boing has a post with an extract from an article about a fellow who keeps a jar of coloured beads on his desk.  Each bead represents a day remaining in his life and each day he removes one from the jar.  The beads are colour-coded by decade.

New Technique for Maple Syrup Production

Apparently the new method is to cut the top off a sapling and then, essentially, suck out all the sap with a vacuum.

via Boing Boing

US Internal Migration

Vizynary has a post with an info-graphic that shows migration within the US (ie how many people move from one state to another).  A nice way to show a huge pile of data.

via Boing Boing