Geeky Fun with Google Charts

The google charts API is a blast:

Pac-Man Chart


Pac-Man's Enemies


Star Trek Away Team chart


Some more text I found that I had written about google charts:
Something you might not know and I just fully realized the potential/fun in these….

Google has a nifty tool for creating on the fly charts/graphs called the Google Charts API. The cool thing is it’s all done in the URL – no server side includes, or programming or anything is needed and it’s pretty easy to do. You can totally customize how it looks and they have MANY different types of graphs and charts.

here is the URL for the chart below:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chs=500×200&chd=t:72,20,8&chl=Chocolate|Sour|Gross&chtt=Top-selling+Types+of+Candy

candy

Might be really useful to liven up a post every now and then. Do you think this idea is:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=250×125&cht=gom&chd=t:90&chl=Awesome

or is it:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=250×125&cht=gom&chd=t:5&chl=Terrible

terrible

You could make some pretty funny graphs/charts if you wanted. Think of a celebrity blog post about Britney:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chs=500×200&chd=t:74,5,15,5,1&chl=Crying|Shaving+Head|Eating|Singing|Wishing+she+had+K-Fed+back&chtt=How+Britney+Spends+her+Day

Britney

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