Abkhazia railway station: scenes from the end of the Russian Empire
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A beautiful graph of New York Marathon drop-outs in the spirit, appropriately, of the Napoleonic march map made famous by Ed Tufte.

Thanks to its ability to tap into the cloud, the iPhone is less like a PDA and more like a pocket interface to a supercomputer.
Today's case in point? Snap a few pics of that Rubik's cube that you've never been able to solve and the phone will show you how to solve it in the fewest moves possible. Totally cool, except for the lame name: