Going through a period of periodic tables

I'm definitely a visual learner.

Show me a smart diagram that demonstrates an idea in a clear, concice and engaging way, and I'll "get" it straight away.

With that in mind, here are several examples of visual aids that have really captured my imagination recently (click on a picture to go through to the appropriate page):

The Periodic Table Printmaking Project is an international collaboration where 96 artists produced 118 prints, each representing one element. They used a variety of techniques: woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or a combination. The idea is to "promote both science and the arts." Read the Etsy interview here.

A Periodic Table for Branding Elements - Groups include: Advertising, Direct, Branding, Marketing Communications, M&A, Misc. (Java rollover goodness included).

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - An excellent compilation of visualization methods, which in turn leads to more delightful eye candy.

Web Trend Map 2008 - Information Architects Japan created this 2008 Web Trend Map that positions "300 of the most influential and successful websites" on a Tokyo train map.

And perhaps the best of all...

The Life Cycle of a Blog Post - From the post:

"You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you've written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers."

Genius.

(If anyone else knows of any great visual aids, let me know!)