Awesome Infographics

The guys at College Humor have put together these handy illustrations to show you how you really get your exercise at the gym. We’ve done the writhing-in-pain one a few times this week.

Quicken’s handy visual guide shows how the typical American household can save money doing little things, from insulating the attic to changing the oil in your car. Click to see the whole guide.

The guys over at Sci-Fi Wire have done their best to memorialize 5 key concepts sci-fi films in infographic form. The BTTF one is crystal clear, while we’re still confused by The Matrix.

We know that reality and TV are quite far apart, not least when it comes to solving crimes, but it’s still nice to know just how (un)realistic CSI is. Check out the link for the whole infographic.

Check out Karl Tate’s intriguing infographic that explores the highest and deepest points on earth; it also includes egg boiling time and the Horizon oil rig as points of reference. (Thanks, Stephen!)

Tenso Graphics created this hilarious Venn diagram that explains exactly how we got the Keytar – and the duck-billed platypus. Or is it the Guitboard, and a platypus-tailed duck? You decide.

In the event of a water landing, be sure to read over this handy flight safety instruction card illustrator Will Schneider found in the seatback pocket in front of him.

This interactive infographic from Newgrounds user Fotoshop takes us on a journey from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of space time. (Thanks Artur!)

We know it’s not a wheel, but Doghouse Diaries has visualized one of life’s truths. She says Maraschino, you say Red. You say Green, she says Moss Green, Lime Green, Sea Foam Green, etc.

If you have any question what this whole “steampunk” thing is all about, we bring you this simple informational diagram which should set things straight once and for all.

Yanko Tsvetkov pokes fun at how Europeans supposedly view each other. Apparently France thinks Italy is full of “Noisy, Friendly People,” while Germany thinks it’s just “Pizza and Museums.”

It’s amazing the things people will stick into their bodies in order to make it into the record books. This chart commemorates some of the craziest digestive feats ever undertaken by mankind.

Games Are Evil’s Game Developers Flowchart also doubles as a surprisingly broad and deep family tree; it’s the end-all, be-all definitive history of video game development studios.

The Periodic Table meme gets elementary with Bill Keagy’s Periodic Table of Periodic Tables; it not only lists hundreds of tables but includes helpful links to their creators.

Packed with more trivia than a Comic Con, this Periodic Table of Sci-Fi Film and TV Poster takes us back to the future and breaks down all things geeky into its basic (fifth) elements.

If you have trouble visualizing 1.73 billion users and 90 trillion emails, JESS3’s The State of The Internet is a feast for the eyes and the brain; numbers are provided by pingdom.