British newspaper The Independent has an interesting feature called ‘Mapping the Crisis’, featuring a node-link graph (which I’ve mentioned before) attemping to map the articles and discussion from the paper’s coverage of the current political situation in Israel/Gaza.

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Reddit User Chknbone dropped this little New Year’s present the other day and I thought it was too cool to leave unshared.

It’s a flow chart of the Ice Cube song Today Was A Good Day (NSFW Language). Classic rap makes for some amusing grammar and linguistic feats, and seeing it mapped out here is a good laugh, not to mention an amusing stretch of the flowchart metaphor.

So check out the original at flickr, and here’s to more cool stuff in 2009!