Awesome Infographics

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.

Entire world, meet Dan Meyer: the Santa Cruz high school teacher has created a 2009 Annual Report of his life that includes beers imbibed, TV watched, miles driven, and hour slept.

Fail whales are thankfully absent in this visualization of Twitter’s development history; it starts from 2006 with Jack Dorsey to Blaine Cook and Alex Payne, and finally to today’s developers.

Visualize the orbital-palooza taking place above our heads with Michael Paukner’s Big Brothers; he organizes satellites not just by nation but by working/non-working and >10cm debris.

From fusion reactors to genetically engineered pets, What’s Next’s Trends & Tech Timeline is a mind-blowing look into the future; it starts in present day with predictions up to 2050.

Historical power structures and distributions aren’t exactly casual conversation, but The Power Gap succinctly distills these topics into an animated infographic a-la The Crisis of Credit.

Maxim Dalton’s Guitar Lessons is a noteworthy performance, with 35 of the world’s most amazing axes on a single 19″x25″ poster; it includes Slash, Hendrix, Clapton, and more.

Give the gift that keeps on brewing this holiday season with the Periodic Table of Beer Styles; each “element” includes ABV (alcohol by volume), IBU (bitterness), and SRM (color).

David McCandless’ Visual Miscellaneum book moves beyond staid pie charts and bar graphs: it features colorful infographics that show everything from media scare stories to “in” colors.

Pedro M. Cruz’ Decline of Empires reduces the top maritime empires of the 19th and 20th centuries (France, Portugal, Spain, and England) to blobs–albeit surprisingly descriptive ones.

xkcd untangles convoluted Hollywood plotlines into organized Movie Narrative Charts; LotR, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars all become semi-coherent, but Primer still remains indecipherable.

It’s not quite as comprehensive as the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Generator, but 42 Essential Plot Twists scores points for its twisted creativity–helpfully illustrated with equally twisted drawings.

Filled with sci-fi size charts, gladiator comparisons, and tie-tying flow charts, Visual Aid’s posters are heaven for infographic lovers; they’re from the two books of the same name.

The Helmet Project deserves its own Hall of Fame for its scope: a work in progress, its goal is to catalog images of all college and pro-football helmets from 1960 to present day.

What are you chances of being struck by lighting, or, say, two nuclear blasts? Book of Odds is a site devoted to charting your personal odds for both the morbid and the marvelous.