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Return of the Rundown

  • Timewaster: Typewar.  Think you know fonts?  Try this game, which you’ll either find completely boring or riveting.
  • Best aggregated reference word site: Wordnik.  My favorite reference site right now.  All about words.
  • Maps of Disaster: Informative, curious, unnerving.  View map (or maps) of the world, with icons of disaster superimposed.  For added effect, project image onto your office wall.  You’ve got things under control. (This is: a service of the Hungarian Emergency and Disaster Information Service)
  • Best specialty science-writing blog: Tetrapod Zoology.  Fascinating, curious, informative, and detailed without alienating those not totally familiar with the science at hand.  Aside: I want this book.
  • Best easily digestible good news story: “Feeling grumpy is ‘good for you’” (via BoingBoing).  Bonus: “File photo” used for BBC article appears to have been taken from One Foot in the Grave.
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150% Awesome

subwayinternet

If I had a wall large enough for this (and didn’t have the wall covered with dry-erase board), this graphical representation of the internet-as-subway would certainly be an excellent contender for posting.

Which is a too wordy way of saying, this is awesome.

You can theoretically put in to order one when they’re printed, but good luck with that; they’re only printing 1,000. A lot and not.

(Also, they do have a hi-res version available for the downloading. So if you were feeling particularly energetic, and not at a loss for toner, you could rasterize the image, print it out on however many 8.5×11″ sheets of paper it takes, and assemble it yourself…)