The Big Chart, cre­ated by The Counter-Intuitive Com­par­i­son Insti­tute of North Amer­ica (CICINA), attempts to find the sin­gle best thing in the world using a tournament-style brack­et­ing sys­tem to com­pare 16,384 things in 8 cat­e­gories (ideas, art, peo­ple, fuels, words, other ani­mals, places and other things).

Is the Bil­bao Guggen­heim bet­ter than McDonald’s French fries? Are pen­guins bet­ter than Mir­a­cle Grow? Can any­thing beat heated seats on a cold Novem­ber day?

via Kot­tke

Update: Unfor­tu­nately it appears the CICINA web­site no longer exists and a mir­ror of The Big Chart does not exist. If you hap­pen to dis­cover a mir­ror (or if the site comes back), please do let me know.