​Marijuana enthusiasts know that despite the West Coast's deficiencies, it has one thing really going for it: weed is cheap out there and plentiful. And usually better.

This information has now been backed up in fancy infographic form, with data from Floating Sheep, a collective of geographers. Weed is officially cheaper in the Pacific Northwest and in California, and more expensive on the East Coast.

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​The New York Times has a pretty well-done interactive infographic this weekend, attached to a story about an unconventional Brooklyn family. Our country's demographics skew increasingly toward the non-traditional; the days of 2.4 kids and a dog are no longer. The infographic shows you how many other households in the U.S. are like yours. I toyed with it so we can visualize some uncommon arrangements.

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​Yesterday, we unleashed Steven Thrasher's cover story, White America Has Lost Its Mind, on an unsuspecting -- and partially mental-health-care-needing -- public. Since then, besides producing some pretty amusing, enlightening, and point-proving hate mail, Thrasher's story has also generated record amounts of comments for us: in just one day, 247.

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​Happy Tuesday, New York! Today's the day when you realize you are now knee-deep in a week that simply won't end until, well, four days from now. And you are likely to reach the point of what's commonly (though not medically) known as "quiet desperation" sometime over the next three hours. The answer? Anything but the following various ways to get high, none of which should interest you at all.

Unless you're desperate.

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​Apropos of nothing -- except the whole Islamophobia talking point inspired by that community center downtown (or as people who aren't from New York/are directionally impaired/are reality-impaired call it, the "Ground Zero Mosque") has inspired over the last week or two -- here's a nice way to demonstrate just how much of the world's minority are angry, terrified Americans in regards to the world's Muslims.

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​There's been quite a bit of discussion around these parts about the word "hipster," especially after the New York Times' standards editor put the kibosh on using it yesterday. But what's the cumulative total? And what's our role in propagating this trend?

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​Apparently, it's time to reduce your Unsolicited Carbon Footprint -- spam emails release over 20 million tons of CO2 per year, approximately .3 grams per message, as this Woork Up infographic tells us. Though the exact science of the whole process isn't revealed, this is good validation against spammers on environmental principle -- be they your bleeding-heart Midwestern aunt or a pleading Nigerian prince. Here, we re-create the information from the infographic with examples of our own.

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​Hey! Remember that time yesterday when Radar Online released the news of tapes with audio of Academy Award-winning director, producer, and What Women Want actor Mel Gibson spewing racist, misogynist invective at the mother of his lovechild? We certainly do. And we also promised that we'd get to work on a flowchart of this thing. So, without further ado, do you want an easy, beautiful way to know all the awful things Mel Gibson said?

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​The Catcher In the Rye has its obsessive fans, but also the obsessive "phonies" who try to ban it. Also, The Chocolate War, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and other beloved, dark, coming-of-age books teenagers have once been told they must read this right now. Good Magazine has an awesome must-read infographic about the books that were most targeted by authorities for banning in 2009. [FK]