IRAQ WAR ENDS and other great headlines in today’s (fake) New York Times (courtesy of The Yes Men).

Mark Newman at the Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan generated this awesome collection of election maps. My favorite is above.

H/T Andrew Sullivan

UPDATE:
As Steve and Josh commented, the red/blue colors can give a biased visual perspective. Here’s the same map with the hue rotated 120 degrees.

Check out this cool Japanese water fountain:

This came up as one of the sidebar images on the blog’s home page (it searches Flickr for photos tagged with ‘information’). He calls it a “Life Map,” and it shows his interests, academic and non-academic, apportioned through his life.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A new way of thinking about time and space, a book by Rob Bryanton. www.tenthdimension.com

Way more kitschy moog LPs than you ever knew existed….

ok, I know, this one is actually an ARP…

36 15 Moog

My friend Jay Schuster just pointed me to a really fun graphical description language, which can produce beautiful images with remarkably small amounts of code.

I encourage you to check out the galleries at contextfreeart.org and try it yourself if you’re inclined.

To give you a taste of what it’s like, this snippet of code:

startshape SeedOfLife
background { b -1 }

rule SeedOfLife {
DotCircle {}
6 * {rotate 60} DotCircle { y 1 }
}

rule DotCircle {
180 * {rotate 2} CIRCLE { y 1 s 0.025 hue 120 sat 1 brightness 1}
}

… produces this image:

“Photographer Richard Harrington stumbled upon this abandoned NASA trailer, abandoned on a dusty lot somewhere between L.A. and Las Vegas, and as you would expect, it’s a retro space-tech dream inside.” - VIA Gizmodo

The NYTonline posts a review of Font design software and websites here.  One of the most interesting is fonstruct.com, which is a combination of an online font editing system and a social networking site that lets users share fonts they’ve designed.