I'm gonna pit this all up to Harry Potter, probably one of the most famous YA books that I didn't see mentioned above (Maybe I'm skimming too fast).

There's a strange Harry Potter-ization thats going on thats sort of reenergized the YA field, I think.

This is really fascinating and could be useful too. I work in the mapping department of an electric co-op near Fort Worth, and we constantly use either Google Earth's street view or Live Search Maps's (msn) Birds-eye-view. This would be another useful resource for locating electric lines and the sort.

Live Search Maps website:
http://maps.live.com/

Wow, this is cool, I'm sort of surprised I've never seen anything like this before.

Grapevine Texas? Well I'll be damned.

Good ol' hometown Muncie, IN creativity. I like it.

Good to see things back in my hometown just as weird as ever.

Married to the Sea comic waiting to happen?

I actually saw this performed at McFarlin Auditorium at SMU in Dallas last year. It was interesting, but as an minimal classical piece, really not my style. It didn't really keep my interest for the whole thing

I'll just say that I've been working in used book stores for almost 7 years now, and you have no idea the kind of stuff you see over and over again.

Nora Roberts. John Grisham. Suze Orman. Dr. Phil. Left Behind Series. etc

I've thrown out a fair share of thousands of duplicates of these.

I've worked in book stores for the past 6 years and the things you find are quite unique.

We had a photo album of strange photos at my old store, with all sorts of things.. I've even found nude photos stashed away in some books.

I've got a friend who also occasionally blogs the things she's found in the time she's worked in book stores..

Its fun stuff..