Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998. Anyone else grateful for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? Watch Video ›
Created by Eric Fischer, these maps combines data from Flickr and Twitter. The red dots represent Flickr pictures while the blue dots are tweets. More on the story at The Daily Mail. View List ›
For years, a Russian professor has been predicting the end of the United States as we know it - a victim of civil war triggered by an epic moral and economic collapse. In his prediction map, Alaska goes to Russia (heh, Palin joke), The northeastern states join the European Union and “The Texas Republic” finally returns to Mexico. View Image ›
Kottke’s put together a nice look at a number of different election night maps. These are mainly from a wide range of news organizations, p[lus the Onion, Google and some guy with a dry erase board. There must be a cocktail napkin map out there somewhere.
