The webcomic xkcd, helps map geeks figure out the keys their personalities in this awesome comic about map projections. It's kind of a Cosmo quiz for map nerds: What your favorite map projection says about you more »

Via BoingBoing: Here's a short video demonstrating the phenomenon of liquefaction, the process by which soil loses strength and stiffness caused by an earthquake and behaves like a liquid. The liquid rises to the top of the seemingly solid soil and remai… more »

A film shot just a few days before the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco This film, originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was shot. From New York trade papers announcin… more »

BBC News UK has an interesting article about the Waldseemuller map, the first map to use the word "America" to describe the "New World". Frequently referred to as "America's Birth Certificate," the map has an interesting pro… more »

From the Open Geodata Blog: Check out a unique use for Open Street Map data: music! From the artist's, French Letter, site on Band Camp: "This is Washington, DC and the surrounding highways remapped in audio. It is an east-west sweep of the city, so… more »