Hot sauce, where are you?

Here's one way to prevent theft of hot sauce bottles.

Endless wings

Recently from Randall Munroe's XKCD we have this depiction of "endless wings"

At the actual webcomic, hovering over the image reveals this additional message in the "title-text":

Try our bottomless drinks and fall forever!

Grover's corner of geography

Ah, Sesame Street, how I love thee. And here is a wonderful, glorious example of Grover having fun with geography... and SOUTH America. By the way, is that the Peters projection on that map? More on that next week.

New Restaurants

Why not do another cartoon by Roz Chast this week? Just because this one from The New Yorker in July of 2001 is too tiny and detailed to be legible (sorry, I couldn't get a large enough version so that even clicking on it won't help.  If anybody out there can find a larger version of this which would be legible I'd be much obliged).  I'm sure that even if it were larger, most of the restaurant jokes it contains would be missed by non-New Yorkers. And don't confuse this with Chast's "Folk Art of Midtown" which she did the previous year. It's much better labeled on The New Yorker's cartoon archive site.  But it doesn't involve a map.

This sort of insanely detailed drawing and too-much-text is very much par for the course for Roz Chast submissions to The New Yorker.  I'm guessing that this one ran on two full pages when it ran all those years ago.

Free atlas

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis has always been a bit punny, but sometimes it gets rather thoroughly out of hand.

Drabble GPS 03

More of the GPS story arc from Kevin Fagan's Drabble May 2008.

Hitting Saddam

Hitting Saddam Where It Hurts. ( Map of possible air-strike targets in Iraq, shows Stretch-limo bases; Restaurants That Don't Take Reservations; Hummel Factories; Lite FM Stations.)

Wanna guess when Michael Crawford had this published in The New Yorker? Lead up to 2003 Iraq invasion? Nope.  Persian Gulf war? Nope.  This was in February 1998, when Clinton was sending cruise missiles in to effectively punish Saddam for not cooperating with U.N. WMD inspectors.

Drive me to the moon

Getting lost in a car on the moon has been done.  This time it's by Chris Madden.  Turns out, however, that "Marius" is, in fact, a place in Lancaster, England. And this guy is trying to blame it on the GPS, or Sat-Nav as the Brits call it.