Still another Saturday morning linkdump.

* This is my favorite MetaFilter post in a while, with tons of links all about the history of stick-figure icons, non-literacy information signs, and Helvetica Man.

* Also at MeFi: all about Herb & Dorothy Vogel, art collectors.

* Favorite last lines from science fiction novels. Hard, I think, to top "Poo-tee-weet?"

* Know your meme.

A helpless fan of warning signs, I'm very glad to see new Doktor Sleepless covers on Flickr.

The blog icon for this week is of course shamelessly stolen from the Warning Signs of the Future Flickr group, one of my absolute favorite things on the Internet. That's why I'm so glad I ran across the Doktor Sleepless wiki this afternoon, which has a similar aesthetic from the minds of Warren Ellis and Ivan Rodriguez. (Information on the series here. Originally via grinding.be.)

In the end I found it necessary to troll the site for every Warning Sign image I could find, which I now happily share with you. So cool.













Most of these originate in a series of variant "warning sign" covers done for issues of the series, which I will now absolutely have to check out, if only because of stuff like this.

Investigating the origins of the bizarre warning sign below (originally found at Boing Boing) leads to the world's coolest Flickr group, Stick Figures in Peril.



Here's my entry, from our honeymoon:



A related group, Warning Signs, is something I've linked to before, but it too is awesome.





Aficionados should refer to "Signs of Life" in their copies of Backwards City #2 for more sign-related hijinx. I could put it online, but I feel weird about it; I don't live there anymore.