- Illustrated masks:
- The Vader Project features “100 reimagined helmets.”
- Gizmodo rounds up some awesomely illustrated anti-flu masks from Mexico.
- Chicago’s gang cards of the ’70s are a particularly odd form of folk art. I imagine my uncle cracking these thugs’ heads back in the day.
- The Rare Book Room site “has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.”
- Paper Moon brings beautiful monochrome illustration to 2D gaming.
- Urban infrastructure:
- Subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale.
- Triptrop creates slick heat maps on the fly to show how far by subway any point in New York is from any other.
- Perpetual Kid offers manhole cover coasters.
The subway site is great!
Rarebookroom.org seems to be linked to Octavo, which publishes hi-res scans of many rare and antique volumes on CD.
Octavo was started by Adobe founder (and rare book collector) John Warnock.
[Ah yes–I meant to point that out; thanks for the reminder. –J.]
Swine Flu made the saying “When pigs fly” Obsolete.