Borders are weird

Here's some fun with national borders from a recent Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic by Zach Weiner.  If you decide to stop over at the site there is this warning: SMBC is often NSFW. 

The no-touchy zone

This is a submission from a person who should be on everybody's short list of favorites: Andy. It's an absolutely wonderful video by that self-professed map nut and incomparable explainer-of-things C. P. G. Grey. Indeed, his explanations of various electoral systems immediately convinced me of the rectitude of abandoning the first past the pole voting system used in the US for the objectively mathematically superior Mixed-member proportional representation... but just click on those links to be convinced yourself. Meanwhile, enjoy the sublime weirdness that is the US-Canadian border:

Old maps

Let's hear it for Jack Ziegler in the New Yorker, everybody!

When was the last time the world saw a war that actually changed borders? Kosovo? I guess the Russian-Georgian scuffle kinda, sorta did that... I suppose.