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Boston Globe putting all your other disaster fetish maps to shame.

via @awoodruff

The Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator, a British product from the 1920s, is a scroll-map navigator in the shape of a watch. It came with tiny interchangeable instructions that you scrolled manually to see which roads to take when driving.

mapsontheweb

One Line - One World

A world map drawn with a single continuous line.

kaylabeemarie

Din’s toughest mission yet 💚

kaylabeemarie

Din: *Sigh*

comickergirl

So, I had a bunch of ideas for goofy Crisis comics. This was one of ‘em. I’m still working on another that I think is turning out a little better, but this one has the benefit of being finished, so. XD (It’s like a finished deleted scene on a DVD, let’s put it that way.)

halfagony-halfhope

thehillywoodshow

What we thought the parody would be: A music video parody, some dance scenes, great.

What the parody actually was: A cinematic masterpiece.

mapsontheweb

The Midwest Fires of October 8, 1871.

sarahseeandersen

mapsontheweb

United States of Pixelated.

mapsontheweb

This animation was created by NASA using FAA air traffic control data from September 11, 2001. It shows the rapid grounding of air traffic across the US, and redirection of incoming international traffic, in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Time is at lower left, number of planes in the air lower right. At 9:06 am, FAA issued a ground stop to all traffic not yet departed that would encounter NY airspace [“tier one”- NY, DC, Boston, Cleveland] . A series of rapid decisions followed, including redirecting inbound traffic away from NY and warning airplanes in the air of potential cockpit intrusion. At 9:45 am, FAA Command Center decided to close all US airspace for the first time in history. Within a few hours, all commercial air traffic was grounded. This animation is displayed in the National Air and Space Museum’s “America by Air” exhibition.