I just posted this to my UI design class discussion board:
Awe-inspiring info design…though the current menu is now only 6 pages 😦
“Two years ago, Calvin Trillin wrote an article for the New Yorker about Shopsin’s, an eccentric eatery in the West Village with about 9 billion menu items… Shopsin’s has moved to another Village location since the article came out, but they’ve still got that big old menu. If you dare, feast your eyes on a tour de force of outsider information design, all 11 pages of the Shopsin’s General Store menu…”
http://www.kottke.org/04/08/shopsins-menu
via xblog
This link, however, will NEVER find its way to Blackboard (turn the volume up REAL LOUD):