Your guide to recent corporate scandals.

September 17, 2002 3:22 PM

Your guide to recent corporate scandals. An excellent visual description of recent corporate scandals and all the connections between the different firms and people involved. There is a small pop-up thingie that comes up if you drag your mouse on any box (the techies will know the more precise term for it).
posted by SandeepKrishnamurthy (11 comments total)

It's called Alternate Text, but "Pop-up thingie" is perfectly acceptable.
posted by thanotopsis at 3:36 PM on September 17, 2002

Thank you, thanotopsis.
posted by SandeepKrishnamurthy at 3:39 PM on September 17, 2002

Cool, but I think the artist could use some tips from Edward Tufte.
posted by sharksandwich at 3:53 PM on September 17, 2002

Actually, there only seems to be one pop-up for the entire image (which is just an image, not an interactive imagemap) giving credit to contributors. If you're looking for something more, you can stop.
posted by dhartung at 4:03 PM on September 17, 2002

It's a fun work, but I think Dave Shulman's "Gateway to Heaven" diagram is more clever(erer), in a fluxus kind of way. [click on "Enlarge Image" to see it]

Shulman's style appears to be circa Seventies, but must be more recent ("SUV," "HMO," "soy milk"). Sorry, no ALT tag...
posted by skyboy at 4:04 PM on September 17, 2002

Is this a set relic from Russell Crowe's character's office in A Beautiful Mind? After studying the melange for five minutes I hit my 'back' button and took two Advil.
posted by zenpop at 4:55 PM on September 17, 2002

After studying the melange for five minutes I hit my 'back' button and took two Advil.

...and this is why they continue to get away with it!
posted by inpHilltr8r at 5:01 PM on September 17, 2002

I think the visual clutter was on purpose, kind of a comment on the general fuckedupness off the whole matter.
posted by signal at 5:30 PM on September 17, 2002

hmm, anyone know why the alt text pops and disapears very quickly in IE 6?
posted by Grod at 7:07 PM on September 17, 2002

Hard to tell if it's intentional or not. On one hand, serious information graphics don't generally make good T-shirts, but he's trying to sell it as 'Diagrams to help you make sense of it all.'

Fun T-shirt, but far from an excellent visual description.

Intentional visual clutter worked for the Spamdemic Map, but this just comes off as a poor use of Visio.
posted by Jeff Howard at 8:41 PM on September 17, 2002

I always liked They Rule (Flash)-- you can see the executive boards of many of the biggest US and international companies and see who is scratching who's underbelly both in the corporate sector and in the government.

Is business really exterting undue influence in politics? -- you decide.
posted by zpousman at 5:43 AM on September 18, 2002