Today's Featured Blog: Strange Maps

This is the first installment of what I hope will become a regular feature here at The Old Eighteen, in which I encourage you to check out blogs that I've found while perusing the many internets (because, as President Bush has reminded us, there is in fact more than one internet).  Today's featured blog is Strange Maps, a blog which, as the name implies, features unusual and interesting maps.  As an example, today's post features a series of cartograms (maps whose features are distorted to illustrate demographics or other information) about the global film industry.  Before looking at these maps, you might not have known that Iceland produces more films per capita than just about any other country in the world, or that Nigeria was such a prolific producer of feature films.  Other interesting topics recently posted about on the blog include a World War I soldier's helmet painted with a map of the Western Front, an example of trench art; a map of an unnamed sea of methane on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn; and a 1929 "Surrealist Map of the World."