As hibernation season sets in for bears of the Northern Hemisphere, it seems appropriate to blog about our favorite furry friends. While real life bears snore away the dark days of winter, there are plenty of teddy bears, gummy bears, animated bears, bear costumes, bear songs, and Cinnamon Bears on Archive.org to lighten our hours. Besides, it’s Friday and we can BEAR-ly contain ourselves!

• Teddy’s eye view of San Francisco, plus kidnapping!
  A teddy bear’s adventure in San Francisco
• Bear at a Tokyo Shop: Shibuya Apple & Bear
• Lusty Bear (quaint old song): I’m a Bear in a Lady’s Boudoir
  
• Teddy Bear CPR (A Collection Team favorite we will feature again and again and): Teddy Rescue
• Star-Crossed Gummy Bears (perhaps this is a little on the heavy side): Letters to Patrick
• Silly song w/ lots of bear photos: Bobo The Bear
• Old-time Radio Show: The Cinnamon Bear
• Real-life bears! Polar Bear and Cubs

If you’ve been nosing around the Web looking for free maps, the Archive’s new collection of nearly sixty thousand digital raster graphic (DRG) maps from the USGS is nothing to sneeze at. These maps are in the public domain, but getting access to them usually costs money. The Archive provides them for free thanks to the work of Jared Benedict of the Libre Map Project and donations from over 100 map liberators. For best results, the maps should be viewed with global positioning software or a map viewer.

A few examples:

Nose Rock, New Mexico
Roman Nose, Idaho
Blue Nose Peak, Nevada
The Nose East, Wyoming
Devils Nose, California