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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, BBC Future has created an interactive map of his travels through time. Can you guess which Doctor has made the most TARDIS trips? Click here to find out, and click on each trip to see archive video clips and images too.

CODEBASES an ongoing work-in-progress by Information Is Beautiful.

It’s essentially a linear scale of code, starting with things that have very little code and progressing to things with a lot.

Look at UNIX and LINUX, lean and mean …

Each horizontal line represents a new scale, from 1 million, to 5 million, to 10, to 25, 50, and 100 million lines of code.

And even if you can’t code yourself, the data is a bit fascinating, isn’t it?

Data, gotta love it! I mean, to be is to be data. Right?

How does Microsoft Office have so much more data in it than many living organisms, for instance?

Because apparently bloatware isn’t subject to natural selection.

And the graphic’s not-so-subtle kicker, well, it’s hilarious.

Hilarious: actually, no … don’t think so … Mucholderthen wonders: How much of the criticism of the Healthcare.gov website is real and how much of it is just plain partisan disinformation? I mean, there are a lot of Obama-haters (and poor people haters) out there who have been caught in lies. Over and over and over …

The cultural progression of four stories mapped.

"The four stories are neatly synopsised as:

A man falls in love with his female creation (Pygmalion);

A king unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother (Oedipus);

A man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for power and knowledge (Faust);

FM radio stations in the US

The emergence of YOLO on Twitter