Poignant, brilliant and stark way of visualizing the BP oil spill, at IfItWasMyHome.com — using a Google Maps interface, they overlay the size of the spill in any city/place you specify.

eg. In Toronto:

Stumbled upon this surfing while surfing.

(Yes, it’s no more ironic than rain on your wedding day…but couldn’t resist the rare triple pun.)

Awesome alliteration and appropriate abstract allegorical animation.

(by Neill Cameron, check out all 26 here)

‘Irregardless’, this is tough to argue with…

(You know the mushroom sound effect is ringing in your head. Go ahead, click it.)

Roped the dissenters in…

Too fantastic not to share.

(Source: unknown)

If this is mesmerizing to an adult, it has to be a mind-bending trip for a toddler - a new wave of interactive books (and hopefully, learning):