International geographical trolling

So Canada's NATO Twitter account tweeted this:

Geography can be tough. Here’s a guide for Russian soldiers who keep getting lost & ‘accidentally’ entering #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/RF3H4IXGSp
— Canada at NATO (@CanadaNATO) August 27, 2014

To which the Russians tweeted this response:

Helping our Canadian colleagues to catch up with contemporary geography of #Europe @CanadaNATO pic.twitter.com/MjzRxpFFfN
— Russians at NATO (@natomission_ru) August 28, 2014

This is surely a positive development in international relations.

BizarreRecords.com

Want to spend some time being creeped out by disturbing LP album covers?  Head over to BizarreRecords.com for gems like this:

Vintage jacket

I'm pretty sure it doesn't have South Sudan on it either. On the other hand, if Putin keeps up his antics, if this guy wears it long enough maybe it will become more accurate.

You don't just paint over Mordor

I think there's something slightly criminal about having to paint over something this thoroughly awesome.  I would think the landlord would want it left there... give them their deposit back and then charge the next tenants extra for the privilege of living with something so precious, I would.

Muppet Wizard of Id

Did you know that Jim Hensen once did a pilot for a Muppet-esque take on the Wizard of Id?  It featured a map joke:

PMS GPS gum

My wife found this rack of novelty gums in a candy shop on the Oregon coast a few months ago.  I've only now gotten to posting it:

Hot and Cold (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here with a map of the world:

(Image links to source.)

World History: The Comic

Blog friend Amanda has found a page from World History: The Comic by Zak Ziebell. This one is about the Byzantine empire.  There's much more to be found there.

4-dimensional map of California drought

This is an insanely innovative map.  And timely.  As if any other evidence was even need to prove xkcd's Randall Munroe is a cartographic genius.

The "title-text" at the actual webcomic says:

58% of the state has gone into plaid

Face tracking

This one is a bit more off-the-beaten-path cartographically speaking, but it is a legitimate form of mapping and projection.  An article explaining the project by Nobumichi Asai is here, but it's in Japanese:


OMOTE / REAL-TIME FACE TRACKING & PROJECTION MAPPING. from something wonderful on Vimeo.

Berkhamsted

Look, I know we've done a bit of a rash of this sort of thing, but I swear it's not intentional.  Article

Map of an introvert's heart

Over at I Love Charts there'a a map of an introvert's heart by Gemma Correll

Un-zoo

ArchDaily reports that Danish architecture firm BIG has come up with Zootopia, an innovative plan to reimagine the 1960s-era Givskud Zoo in Denmark that would create a cage-free, design-forward layout for captive animals and the humans who love to gawk at them.  The centerpiece of the zoo has an interesting theme:

Snake fight (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here with another globe cartoon:

(Image links to source.)

19 Maps That Will Blow Your Mind

The jovial folks over at Flowing Data have a whimsical set of "informational" maps for you to enjoy: Below are just a few:

Blind map

In the 1830s, Samuel Gridley Howe developed an embossed alphabet known as Boston Line Type. This atlas, printed in 1837, made use of this type to present geographical information for students at the New England Institution for Education of the Blind  Scans of the rest of Howe’s atlas can be seen on the David Rumsey Map Collection website:

New Hampshire

Ohio

Florida

Worst. Hurricane. Ever.

Randall Munroe's xkcd: Producing a mind-puddlingly wonderful map-based webcomic about once per month so as to make the world a better place. The "title-text" at the actual webcomic says:

'Finding a 105-year-old who's lived in each location and asking them which hurricane they think was the worst' is left as an exercise for the reader.

Comic stars

We haven't done a "Map of the Stars" gag in a while. Here's one from Lio by Mark Tatulli, which is a joke he's used previously

Relationship GPS

Proof

I'm fairly decent at most math.  I thoroughly disliked proofs

Wow (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here with…

Free T-shirt

Still on the Shark Cafe story arc, Sherman's Lagoon strip by Jim Toomey, this time with a joke about California's budget woes (which have since largely been resolved... kinda.

GPS-in-law

A classic mother-in-law joke from Sherman's Lagoon strip by Jim Toomey.

Inevitable?

This is one person's (Claire Wyckoff) vulgar thing to do with their exercise tracking device':

When was the USA most like an eagle?

Making animals or people out of maps is a fairly common cartographic venture.  Here's one from the Library of Congress by Joseph Churchman from 1833.  It's not a particularly good fit... and it kinda looks more like a large-footed pigeon rather than the eagle it's supposed to be.  But the atlas it was published in was significant.

Borderline

Bill Mahar has presented an immigration-themed satire of Dr. Suess's iconic "Oh, The Places You'll Go":


Immigration issues lend themselves rather well to map-themed political cartoons:

Steve Breen

Streets have no name

Kennith Field—who is also a professional cartographer, a former cartography professor, and the editor of The Cartographic Journal—assembled this map of all the streets in the US that have no name:

Map by Kenneth Field  Acknowledgements: "Tom Tom data used and published under licence using Esri technology."

Children's book cartoon (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here with a cartoon illustration from "I'll be you and you be me" by Ruth Krauss, illustrated by Maurice Sendak:

(Image links to source at Brain Pickings.)

Humans on the move

(Mostly Eurocentric) human migration and culture in a 5-minute video:

There's a starving kid in Europe...

This map is from a 1918 book by the United States Food Administration, titled Food Saving and Sharing: Telling How the Older Children of America May Help Save From Famine Their Comrades In Allied Lands Across the Sea. “Remember,” the text asked its readers, “that every little country on the [map] is not merely an outline, but represents millions of people who are suffering from hunger.”


Article in Slate

Road to crazytown?

I don't think we've done a photo of a GPS unit in a while: