{"id":260,"date":"2007-06-11T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T17:41:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:30","slug":"the-most-useless-infographic-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/06\/the-most-useless-infographic-ever","title":{"rendered":"The Most Useless Infographic Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of infographics is to take data that is initially tough to interpret and distill it into some high-level knowledge that readers can remember and take away with them. Upon picking up a six-pack of Cottonelle last night though, I think I found the most useless infographic ever:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/cottonelle.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"328\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes indeed.  It&#8217;s a visual reminder that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 x 1 = 1<\/li>\n<li>2 x 1 = 2<\/li>\n<li>3 x 1 = 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s good times.  And there&#8217;s even a 1-800 number you can call for further details as well as a website where perhaps you can plug in different values and see how many single rolls a quintuple roll would equal.<\/p>\n<p>If I were the makers of Cottonelle, I&#8217;d probably use this space to showcase and romanticize the process by which they get Aloe into the toilet paper.  I&#8217;ve always wondered about it.<\/p>\n<p>For much better examples of infographics, check out a great book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fimoculous.com\">Rex<\/a> showed me: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.understandingusa.com\">Understanding USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of infographics is to take data that is initially tough to interpret and distill it into some high-level knowledge that readers can remember and take away with them. Upon picking up a six-pack of Cottonelle last night though, I think I found the most useless infographic ever: Yes indeed. It&#8217;s a visual reminder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}