Here’s a website you may not have seen: GIS humor, run by Kelly Sparks, aka @GISRocks.

My favorite may be the entry that points to the Onion’s headline, “Midwest Discovered between East, West Coasts.” It doesn’t appear that Kelly has updated the site since May 2011, prompting me to wonder if we need to do some more funny GISy things for her to write about.

Here’s a stack of GIS, cartography, and design books that I put together this morning. It looks bigger in real life.

I’ve been wanting to add to the “Crazy” category (See categories, at right) on this blog for a while but had too much “serious” content to get through first. So finally, here’s another Crazy entry. This special map cake comes to us courtesy of the Cake Wrecks blog:





Matt Rosenberg has posted a fine compilation of one-liners dealing with maps here including this one:
Q. Why didn’t the map have any meridians?
A. It was a map of a parallel universe.


And I couldn’t help but post this t-shirt design from BustedTees. You see, sometimes the map can be really simple and still get the point across!

Etsy is a great place to go to buy something unique. I’ve gotten some great things through them. However, today I decided to scour the Etsy items for some crazy map merchandise!

This is a poster being sold on Etsy by delovelyArts. The description is great: “This 11″x14″ print would be a lovely addition to any room in your home.
(Especially if your from Illinois)” Now that’s creative!

Here’s a men’s shirt with a map of “West German Land Usage” on it. Who knew? A while back I made a map of soybean production in the Midwestern U.S. I should have put it on a t-shirt! Darn, I missed that money-making opportunity.

This is a Map of America Necklace. It’s actually kind of cool, really. But to wear it as a necklace? In public? Not so sure. Maybe to the next Ignite Spatial NoCo…

I don’t think I could say enough about this teething toy shaped like Oklahoma. Please tell me what YOU think about it in the comments. Please? Please?