Randall Munroe of xkcd is coming out with a new book called Thing Explainer.
Inspired by his popular comic, "Up Goer Five," THING EXPLAINER is a series of brilliantly — and simply — annotated blueprints that explain everything from ballpoint pens to the solar system using line drawings and only the thousand most common English words.
So awesome. I love everything about this. Here's a look at part of one of the blueprints, the Curiosity rover, aka Space Car for the Red World:
