Another week has come and gone, and with it I have once again accomplished far less than I hoped. But on the bright side, I’ve seen quite of a bit of Good Stuff on the web this week.

April 26th was John James Audubon’s birthday, and Google commemorated the event with a great “Google Doodle” — you know, that thing that appears on the Google homepage? Audubon was a great naturalist and artist, and certainly one of the most important figures in American Ornithology. Can you see how the birds spell “Google?” Maybe sort of?

Next, discusses in videos at the , and suggests resources for finding interesting fonts to use in your creative projects — for free!

Robb Dunn has a great story on the Scientific American guest blog about Oliver Zompro, a biologist who discovered an entire new order of insects, the Mantophasmatodea, in southern Africa. The most remarkable thing is that these insects live in many areas that are densely inhabited by people, yet they were completely overlooked until recently. The article is accompanied by some great photos by Piotr Naskrecki, an entomologist and fantastic photographer, who has newly redesigned .

I love it when people find creative ways to make science visual. This is particularly important when the science involves math and statistics, which are not intuitive for many people (including most scientists). Penn and Teller have a of the absurd vaccine/autism “debate,” showing why even if vaccines did cause autism (“which they f***ing don’t!”), it would still be a good idea to get your kids vaccinated. Warning: this video includes strong language.

I realize I’m drifting away from the science and visual communication theme of the blog with this one, but it’s too good to pass up (and I’m going to justify my decision to include this by noting that the book in question is a biology book). On evolutionary biologist Michael Eisen’s blog, he describes an unusual series of events that cause a book about fruit flies to be priced at $23 million on Amazon.com.

And finally, a rather amazing origami anole, designed and folded by Brian Chan, whose utterly remarkable origami designs, most of them folded from a single uncut square of paper, you can see here.