These days, most blogs trade in snark and wit, so it's refreshing to find one that blatantly relishes in numbers and analysis. On Information Is Beautiful, you'll learn oodles about, say, that nasty oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico or find a topographical map of narcotics use in San Francisco or see a carbon-dioxide graphic contrasting the way America drives now vs. a possible electric-car future. Overseen by David McCandless, a writer and designer based in London, the blog's clean design, probing nature and impressive number crunching keeps us coming back