Maps are fun, so is food.

[Dingfod]

[Dingfod]

Map of the world's internet activity for one day:




Edit: Who the fuck is in the middle of Greenland?

[Hermit]

[JoeP]

High life expectancy in Florida ... is that just because really old people go to live there?

[JoeP]

Links to zoomable map.

[Hermit]

Originally Posted by JoeP

High life expectancy in Florida ... is that just because really old people go to live there?

Perhaps, but let's not start bashing wrinklies. Their lifestyles can be quite exciting.

[lisarea]

Have we had this site yet?

This one looks kind of familiar:

You Can Learn A Lot About America From Each State’s Internet Search History | Estately Blog

This one's probably my favorite, though:

The Top U.S. Cities for Douchebags | Estately Blog

It's boggling my mind that Texas has THREE cities that are douchier than Aurora.

[Dingfod]

America, fuck yea!

[lisarea]

19 Maps That Will Blow Your Mind and Change the Way You See the World. Top All-time. You Won’t Believe Your Eyes. Watch.

[Ensign Steve]

I have a question about map #3, states that begin with the letter D. Delaware and what the hell is that other one? District of Columbia? That isn't a state, and if it were it should be filed under C. How am I supposed to take these seriously?

[lisarea]

It should actually be under T, because its name is "The District of Columbia."

[Hermit]

If it had more clickable ads I'd file that page under "you won't believe this one simple trick that doctors hate."

[Hermit]

More maps in time-lapse

Ever-reappearing Poland


France grows

[Dingfod]

[JoeP]

Nevada hardly owns any of itself?

[Kael]

Maybe they lost it in Vegas?

A lot of those lands in the west are things like National Forests and Parks (and of course all the military bases and firing ranges out in the middle of nowhere), which the States are normally content to let the Feds run because it means less out of their budget. We saw some backlash against it in the government shutdown a bit ago - mostly because States that really, really like their tourist dollars found so many of their federally-administrated tourist destinations get caught up in it. It not only hit the largely Republican State governments where it hurts - their wallets - but it fit in nicely with the standard anti-government rhetoric we've all come to know and love so well. This is also the source of that dumbass Cliven Bundy's contention; the State of Nevada said "the feds run that land, so make your grazing payments to them," and Cliven said "I don' reconize no fedrul gubmit!" and stopped paying, since Nevada wouldn't take his money anymore.

Really, though, most of these States would have to see some kind of revenue increase if they wanted to 'take back their land' and run it themselves, or simply not manage it at all. Which would again hit them in their wallets - either lost tourist and grazing fee revenues, or raised taxes to fund them.

[Hermit]

Rorschach test

[Dingfod]

¿Tome Texas, por favor? Gracias.

[JoeP]

I assume that someone has written a counterfactual sf novel in which Spanish America has reunited. Or never got split up.

[Dingfod]

The dream of the Reconquistadores.

[Watser?]

So if the Moors were to retake Spain woud they be Rereconquistadores or would the Spanish be if they reretook it?

[BrotherMan]

Don't come up in here with your historical revisionism! Everyone knows it was the MOOPS.

[Dingfod]

This concept is Amero-centric.

[JoeP]

Also, give Europe back to the Neanderthals.

[Watser?]

Oh, they never left. The colonies took all the humans it seems now.