While not a perfect flowchart, it is difficult to beat the premise.

(Click the image to embiggen.)

Flowcharts reduce everything to a series of choices, and they can help you drill down a complex question into a combination of easy answers to less-complex questions, but I find that they frustrate me in two ways:

1) sometimes they reduce too much, leaving me to choose between answers that don’t precisely match the way that I feel; and

2) they can frustrate the completist in me, since I need to read all the way through all the possible options, and see all of the cleverness that the flowchart creator has come up with.

Thankfully, this flowchart doesn’t frustrate me. In fact, it is kind of delightful, with a nice dash of whimsy.

That doesn’t surprise me, once I found out that it was created by Jessica Hirsch, who I’ve blogged about before, as having created both the Daily Drop Cap (blog post) and The Internet Sends Me Cake (blog post).

(thanks, Colin!)

Amazingly, they’ve done it without ever asking whether you are male or female. I guess the gender difference isn’t that pronounced, after all!

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*If this is literally a burning question, please get yourself checked out.

This is one:

(From Espiral Destructiva, via @Coudal)

Click on the image to see it full size. It’s worth it — probably worth keeping around, if you want to quickly pick an appropriate look for your next type-based project, but don’t want to just scroll through endless lists in the “paragraph” style sheet.

It’s a student project by Julian Hansen, and I also liked his near/far poster for a documentary film festival.

It was featured on the new-to-me design blog Inspiration Lab, but I found it via Coudal.

Wait, do dorm rooms have kitchens? Hot plates? Hmm … add a box.

Actually, the best part of this flowchart is how just trying to follow the lines makes me feel a little drunk.

(thank-you, Daily What!)

Amy left this handy flowchart up for me to follow and laugh riotously at. If you’re even in the midst of a zombie epidemic — or perhaps you want to write a zombie-based screenplay — just follow the flowchart.

Click here for the full thing. I won’t spoil it for you, but just like in real life, the flowchart is ruthless. And there are really only two outcomes: death or sequel.

I thought it kind of fit in with my Scientology post below.

(via Science Blogs)