We live in a golden age of mapping. First, we have this wonderful map showing the percentage of households in each county where English is not the first language. All counties over 10% are shaded. Over each county is also shows which non-English language is...
useless maps
Who doesn't like cool maps? No one. We know everyone is very excited about the northeast Colorado effort to secede from Colorado. Theoretically it's over Denver liberals and energy exploration,.
This is my new favorite website. Some favorites:US states compared to world by populationGraveyard of the AtlanticDam the MediterraneanKanawha should have taken more of VirginiaEscaping to Brazil
Via CT, here's a map of the "the 297 most visible and influential [political] websites and blogs." Of course any cutoff point would be purely arbitrary anyway, but I still wonder who #298, 299, and 300 might have been....The closeup of the conservative political blogosphere...
So these people are excited for some reason about this map, which claims to tracks "terrorism and suspicious activity" across the planet. For those who've forgotten that the world is.