Neat!

I love this, even if it’s too conservative when it comes to preserving existing state boundaries.  Why is Nevada so recognizable?  It would be better to see this map reflect concentrated populations only; coastal Washington and Oregon together, for example.   To see one enormous state covering most of eastern Montana, both Dakota and Wyoming [...]

Via Cartophilia.
This is kind of neat.  It’s a good eye into which senators are kind of stupid.  Mark Begich of Alaska can’t write for shit, Jim Risch of Idaho is fairly thorough, and Susan Collins can draw Maine freakishly well.

Good job, honey.  Now cut the shit and vote for the public option.
Saxby Chambliss, on the [...]

States where more than 60% of people under thirty don’t care to tell people what to do with their lives.
States where 50-60% of people under thirty don’t care to tell people what to do with their lives.
States where less than 50% don’t care to tell people what to do with their lives, and the majority [...]

I can’t believe this is British. I’m consistently surprised by how casually Europeans drop references to American political and geographic arcana.  Long Island’s big, but not necessarily something I’d assume occupies real estate in the average Brit’s mind as a spatial reference.
Not a bad map, actually.  You can see West and East Eggs, the first [...]

Since I like polychromatic things, nerdy things and the orderly regularity of the alphabet, it’s only natural that I would swoon over San Francisco’s residential parking permit system.  Here is the delightful map showing where you can park (for more than an hour, or two, or four) only if you live in the nabe.  I [...]

This is weird, and wrong.  Why is the scale logarithmic?  Oh yeah–for dramatic effect.  The creative license makes Manhattan’s population look 10x as big during the day, when it probably doubles.

First of all, this is not a map of New York City, it’s a map of the southern half of Manhattan.  New York has five [...]

I know this isn’t accompanied by Rahm Emanuel thumping his chest about a Permanent Democratic Majority or tugging the umbilical cord that tethers him to GE’s placenta, but this is so fucking stupid.

This is a cherry-picked display of useless statistics designed to make Democrats happy and complacent about what a sane, liberal country we’ve become.  [...]

Yesterday (July 1) was the day the Census Bureau uses as its benchmark for its 2009 population estimates, which are obviously the last before the actual Census.  At this instant, the estimated population is 306,817,884.  On July 1, 2008 it was 303,824,640.  That’s an increase of 2,993,244 people in a year and a day, or [...]

States that are ugly, conservative, homophobic, culturally sterile or some combination thereof.

Louisiana gets a bye due to New Orleans, but Georgia does not.  It’s a big heap of crazy.  Utah and Wyoming are so beautiful they can go as cuckoo bananas as they want politically and it won’t matter.  Florida and Pennsylvania are too awful [...]