Chart your life, make sense of it all

| Friday, July 11, 2008

Perhaps life is all numbers. Perhaps we can chart and graph our entire existence in an effort to make order out of chaos.

Perhaps.

Well, that’s certainly the humorously intended target of Graphjam, a Web site dedicated to plotting pop culture points on the big bar chart of life. And the best part? You can contribute.

Graphjam — graphjam.com — takes popular songs (or classics) and puts them to the test. Want to know what size a girl needs to be before she’ll cry? There’s a graphic for that — along with the video of “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by the Four Seasons.

Curious how things will turn out on a long road trip? A line chart shows when singing “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” intersects with the “Urge to Kill.”

Or, if you are a bit more, um, intellectual, you can view the flow chart titled “I Think Vs. I Am.”

All of this is good fun and runs the gamut of celebrity, music, pop culture, politics and the like. Links off the site will take you to another portal where photos are captioned by the site’s many visitors. Categories here center around politics, cats and dogs.

Earth-shattering stuff? No. But as the Graphjam slogan says, it’s “Pop culture for people in cubicles.”