azz:
The London Underground map, redrawn so that the line lengths represent the time it takes to travel between stations.
The final result's aesthetically quite interesting, although I don't think I'd find it as useful as the regular map.
The process that he used to create it is very strange from a CS viewpoint, though -- if there was ever a problem that called out for a program to be written to solve it, this is it...
azz: Slightly tangled English, but decoding it: the French record industry has proposed a bill to make free software illegal (with the usual "anti-piracy" justification).
David: !