Un Peu Bizarre: Newseum.org

I bet you're already excited. Good. You'd better be. Because I just found the coolest site on the whole internet:
Newseum (TA DA!)
It's a museum dedicated to journalism, and their website is fantastic. Its best feature is a section that contains scans of newspapers' front pages from around the world. And they're not snooty; any paper can send a PDF scan of its front page.
Newseum is opening in Washington, D.C. in 2008 and I'm totally going. I will seriously book a plane ticket specifically to visit this place. Maybe I'll see the Capitol Building or something while I'm there, on the count of I haven't seen it since I was ten, but only if I've got time.
I've got to prioritize.
And now, a super-sized, super-geeky sampling of the wares (this is not for the faint of heart):

Beijing, China.

London, England.(UK)

The Guardian is a classic. I love the layout, the font, the close-up photograph on the front page....

Iceland.

The major statements are the photograph and the font of the paper's name. Both make me think of Bergman, a native of a neighboring Nordic country.

Beautifully designed. Our newspapers don't get that kind of attention, though a few of our non-glossy magazines do. Some of the papers below are just for fun, but I think it's interesting to see what was considered important enough to deserve a spot on the front page of the newspaper yesterday, depending on where you lived. It's also fascinating how people around the world prefer their news presented to them.