I’ll Trade You A Newton for an Einstein

As we’ve already established, I enjoy seeing an unexpected face turn up on a baseball card, and I’n not above borrowing an old design in the service of same. Lately I’ve been admiring this montage of famous scientests, from da Vinci and Newton to Gould (RIP) and Hawking, given the Topps treatment. Genius comes in many forms.

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I was going to write something about how this Yankees page is not one of them–it’s a garish multimedia eyesore done as a part of something called 2002 Magazine. Rainbow colors, throbbing letters, flaming logo,and a giant circle of exclamation points following your cursor around the screen make for an unforgettablably harrowing interactive experience that can probably crash any browser, so be forewarned. But the photos themselves (especially the ones done as Quicktime loops) are pretty decent generic Yankee shots (if a bit heavy on the post-September 11 dramatics). There’s an equally hideous Mets page. Detractors of both teams will get plenty of ammo here.