Web Stuff Friday: Flowing Puzzle Art

FlowingData has some cool graphics and animations for visualizing information. Here are a couple animations showing the growth of two big store chains:

• Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America shows how Walmart has taken over.
• Visualizing the Growth of Target is not nearly so impressive.

KenKen is a new puzzle. Unlike sudoku, it actually involves some math (very simple math, but math nonetheless). I just did one and it is quite addictive.

Vik Muniz is an artist. The site is pretty darn cool and so is his art. For instance, go to the Gallery section and scroll down to 1994. Look at the video for his Pictures of Wire. Wow. This site is going to take a while to peruse.