Matt Jalbert features some stunning photography of urban sprawl in California. Check out this unsustainable mono-culture. How they chuck their cars into the landscape. But there are also nice images from Death Valley National Park. (via Kottke)

Fireflyforest has great images of wildflowers and wildlife in Arizona.

Snailstales is about snails, slugs, snails and slugs. Good reflections on natural history.

The National Library of Australia Pictorial Collection contains 80,000 digitalised images from Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.

The Google video of the day is annotated here.

Watch how sharks disappear from an aquarium? (Via Google videoblog)

Watch a beehive being massacred by hornets.

Anti war posters get you thinking via Adam Nieman's site in Bristol.

Sniggle net is a culture jammer's encyclopedia maintained by Dave Gross. Lots on billboard liberation , hacks etc.

Comix lets you aggregate all the cartoons you ever wanted.

With Woogle you can turn words into pictures (sometimes). It could be further developed as a vocabulary tool.

Nice buzz, turning pages of ancient books at the British library. Leonardo's personal sketchbook, botanical illustrations or Arabic calligraphy. The 'features' section contains 'real and imaginary gardens' old cook books. The 'showcase' contains historic books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, patents, music scores, sound recordings, photographs and stamps. Flick through the old pergament...

Carnets de digestion is a collection of imaginative gaphics in b/w, take time! Eugene Smith is a 'noodler' of very contemporary characters. Drawn is a collaborative blog sharing illustrations, art and cartooning and linking to a web of the very same. Matt Jones also has some good graphics. Codex Seraphinianus is weird and wonderful. There are a lot of 'grand illusions' (rich media) and some more on art, myth and legends. On the graffiti front Banksy is worth a click through  'outdoors' and 'indoors'.