This was fact-checked thanks to my good friends Spike Jetpack Solomon, Steven Motocross Fluffybutt, Riley Day, and Delilah Whatshername. Yes, they’re all cats. And, while adorable, they don’t give a f*%k about you.

Clearly I now need to make a t-shirt with an adorable cat on it that says “I DON’T CARE IF YOU LIVE OR DIE.” I may just do that.

Speaking of cats, if you like cats on t-shirts, you may want to check out Professor Internet.

Underpants.

A followup to yesterday’s Antisocial Networking.

If you like this one, you’d probably like the other rules and terms we here at The System have defined over the years. Such as:

• The Rules of Mooching
• Relatiolators and Escalationships
• Factbomb
• Adorabull
• The Double Goodbye
• Lazivator, Crappling, and the Crappling Hook
• Friemployees and the E-Beuller
• Singletasking
• …and a whole lot more!

Thanks again to Marty F’n Day, who helped me come up with this and many other comics. His blog is Blast-O-Rama, and has great nerd news and interesting finds, as well as well-crafted movie reviews you should actually listen to.

And if you like these comics, you might like to see Marty and I collaborate on stage, as we do at every Super Art Fight show as co-hosts of the craziness that is THE GREATEST LIVE ART COMPETITION IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE. This weekend, we’ll be performing at Magfest on Saturday, 12:30pm in the National Harbor right outside of DC. More info over at SuperArtFight.com here »

Over at Slate, there’s a great article about the “Best of Show” map at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. Unlike most other maps, it was created painstakingly by one man. Much like yesterday’s post about the Roboto typeface, there is a very subtle art to maps that most people haven’t ever thought about. This article does a great job of discussing the multitude of decisions made by the cartographer in the creation of this map. It took him FIVE YEARS to make!

Normally, this is where I’d mention that I found it on Kottke.org, one of my main sources for great content. But this time, I’m the one who sent it to @jkottke. That’s one step closer to getting him to post one of my comics on his site, which is next on my “awesome blogs I wish would link to me” list.

The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See »

Oh, and if you want to buy the map, here’s the link to Imus’ website. It’s only $40.00, and only $80.00 for a 10-pack. Get some friends together and tell people you have the best map of them all.

 

Over at BoingBoing, there’s a great article about the typeface used throughout the Android 4.0 interface (or “Ice Cream Sandwich” as it’s known), and the controversy surrounding it’s Frankenstein-like nature. Also, I consider typography the unsung art. Something you only notice when it’s wrong, and never when it’s done right. This article talks about this exact process. Check it.

Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto (via BoingBoing) »