The creepy-groovy photography of Denise Grünstein. Creepy. CREEPY.

The Hereford Mappa Mundi The Hereford Mappa Mundi (more, more). From the BBC's the Beauty of Maps.

seizure: the copper sulphate crystal flat. Silvery shards of cold light spangle and wink and beckon. Every surface is furred and infested; big blue crystals dangle like cubist bats from the light fittings. Little wonder the flat has been abandoned: you’d move out, too, if the crystals moved in.

Strange Maps

Airborne cats

Jean Baudrillard did not take place more inside

Carl Linnaeus is 300. 2007 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus, aka Carl von Linné, the father of modern plant and animal classification, who provided a survey of over 7,000 species of plants and 4,000 species of animals, which works helped to establish and standardize the consistent binomial nomenclature for species. more inside

Curious George: Tokyo Meetup 24/25/26 January? Don't make me go to metafilter.

5-card Nancy more inside

Oulipo - an article from The Believer magazine more inside

New in Samorost-Style Games - great post from bluewyvern's blog, Blue Tea. more inside

The Terranaut: like a fish needs a bicycle

Working from home? Get a business bib. via core 77

Star Diary via plep more inside

The book of frogs and mice

Comic strip artists' kit more inside

Wacky Brazilian Pay Phones Via Core 77

U.S. Government Educational Colouring Books. more inside

Amazon Grocery Reviews Via Metafilter more inside

disappearing zine will attempt to address the various things disappearing from the world. So too, a blog called "what I killed today".