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Monday, October 26, 2015

Next class

Map of the school hallway:
navigating,school hallway,war zone

Sunday, October 25, 2015

They will always be there

Owl Turd by Shenanigansen is quite the excellent webcomic.  Enjoy it. funny-web-comics-the-horrifying-reality-of-existence

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Introducing Chaos Life

This is a common experience from Chaos Life by A. Stiffler & K. Copeland
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Friday, October 23, 2015

If it quacks like...

Here's an interesting observation:

I don't know what to do with the information.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Ninja GPS

I could have sworn I've posted an example of Bug Martini before (by Adam Huber)http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-11-gps-ninjagation.png

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Introducing Atomic Robo

Atomic Robo is a webcomic about an atomic-powered robot invented by Nicola Tesla.  It often has maps.  This one is funny because it shows a character using a map like it's a mall directory rather than the map of the black market freighter in the middle of the Pacific as our heroes/fugitives prepare to re-assemble the titular character and (once again) save the world.

Other examples:



Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Mercator truth

Many people have become so used to seeing the Mercator projection of the Earth that there's some confusion about actual sizes of different places on the planet.  Here's an interactive tool to help clarify things.

...and an article to help explain what's going on

Monday, October 19, 2015

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Rule 34

This might be a trigger warning for some.  And if you don't know about Rule 34, here's the explanation
Africa x South America

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Abducted

So much pun:
So much pun. From Just say eh
aliens abduction webcomics It's Always a Difficult Conversation to Have

Friday, October 16, 2015

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Really high

From Ahammaday.com.  This one seems a bit off.  Sure, the one astronoaut's looking the wrong way and his buddy is tapping him on the shoulder to turn around, but it just doesn't quite work somehow.
astronaut,earth,funny,space

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Relieving

This visual trope is a bit familiar (scroll to bottom of that link).  This one is from an article about conservative Canadians screwing up privacy:

 

And isn't the first time we've had a comic involving urine

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Jefferson Grid

Thomas Jefferson established the square mile as a foundation for land law in the US.  This instragram account shows images of things found in 1-square-mile crops from Google Earth.  It's pretty:
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Sunday, October 11, 2015

Water fall

Apparently some people thought this image/video was what the Earth would look like without water.
http://www.asu.cas.cz/~bezdek/vyzkum/rotating_3d_globe/figures/rotating_3d_globe_preview_Geoid_height_EGM2008_nmax500_BlueWhiteOrangeRed_px0650.png 
I't actually just the geoid, which shows the shape of the Earth's surface where gravity is the same (exaggerated for visual effect)

This is what the Earth would look like without water (which we've seen before):
Earth without water

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Read it

Halcyon Maps brings you myriad beautiful maps of interesting things, like this map of literary genres

Friday, October 9, 2015

Can't buy me...

Map of London in the style of the iconic tube map showing rents in London and how they're unaffordable.
http://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1560005

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Geological acne

I swear I've seen this joke before. From Alexander Hoffman's Tales of Absurdity
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Brassy

Do you need a brass wrist band with a map on it?  Of course you do:

Monday, October 5, 2015

Schoolhouse rant

Maps in this parody:

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Introducing OGLAF (Very NSFW)

While this particular example isn't too off-color, virtually every other episode of this webcominc, OGLAF.com, is massively NSFW:
Snow Queen cookies.

Saturday, October 3, 2015