Paris this week

To coincide with this week's international climate change talks in Paris Amanda has submitted this explainer comic by Richard Monastersky & Nick Sousans:

Abridged history?

I'm not sure I get this one:

At the center of it all

Architecture critic Oliver Wainwright recently went to North Korea and took photos of colorful, symmetrical building interiors.  One of them included this North Korea-centric wall map.

Mapping terror

Here's a video animation of 15 years of terrorist attacks by designer Milan R. Vuckovic.  Is it more or less discomfiting than this animation of the history of nuclear tests?

They will always be there

Owl Turd by Shenanigansen is quite the excellent webcomic.  Enjoy it. 

If it quacks like...

Here's an interesting observation:

Ninja GPS

I could have sworn I've posted an example of Bug Martini before (by Adam Huber)

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:

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

Rule 34

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

Abducted

So much pun:
So much pun. From Just say eh

Blue marble

Pretty

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.

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

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:

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:

... and the bees

Introducing Things in Squares

Early days

John McPherson's Close to Home

All of Zelda

"Friendly tag-based Javascript animators" JADSDS have made a gigantic HMTL5 map of the overworld from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, also known as the best Zelda.

...simply walk...

This website compares distances in Middle Earth to places in England.... and Europe: