Coming soon to an iPod near you ... a subway map

iPod subway maps are hot—if your municipality’s mass transit authorities aren’t busy trying to stop them from being published and distributed. That’s what we gleaned from reading ipodsubwaymaps.com, one of those quirky Web-centric labors of love in which someone (in this case, William Bright, a design director for Nerve.com), aims to create a Web-based clearing-house for subway maps that can be downloaded to one’s iPod for easy navigation on the fly. Ironically, one of the cities currently making progress difficult is New York, where there’s a