NORAD has been tracking Santa Claus since 1955. Why? To make sure they don't accidentally mistake him for a nuclear warhead and shoot him down! That would kind of suck, wouldn't it? Where is Santa right now? Follow him on NORAD's Santa Tracker: This...

An update to my post about yesterday's 20th Anniversary of the Simpsons. Cartofan Dan sent me two screen captures that depict a rare map of Springfield on the show. Both are on the wall at Chief Wiggums' Police Department Headquarters: I had...

The perfect piece of décor for the fashionable cartophile's living room sofa. A real globe but soft. Twelve inches in diameter, accurate and up-to-date. It's the classic Hugg-A-Planet Earth: For all you Men From Mars, your own Hugg-A-Planet...

Twenty years ago tomorrow (Dec 17), The Simpsons graduated from a short animated bit on The Tracey Ullman Show to their own series on the fledgling Fox network. Since then, Matt Groening's dysfunctional family has become a pop culture icon. Homer,...

Check out the latest post at Black Maps wherein the Sunshine Superboy goes on about Bucky, Tattoos, and New Cartographic Directions and various attempts to "peel" the Earth and create a flat map with minimal distortion. Among the projections featured...