• more about #geography
    ZadaAdmetus: I'd like to point out that those "SUVs" are in fact commercial vans usually used by builders and other tradesmen in favour of pick-up trucks which are... more »
    LarsThorwald: Well, the sea forts are now added to the list of places I can go when the zombie uprising comes. more »
    tetracycloide: i'm just now noticing that for the red SUV image you can cross your eyes and look at it crosseyed and bring it back into focus so the image looks 3D (... more »
    acrobatic rabbit: the sea forts remind me of Waterworld. Yes. I said(typed) it. Now I'll go scrub my hands with lye. more »
    Althestane: i SO want to take those sea-forts and renovate them into linked apartment complexes! more »
    Roklimber: Well, then, allow me to show a picture of a neighborhood in my native Sao Paulo: [www.fototucavieira.com.br] And here's the satellite image, thanks to... more »
    Mount_Prion: So it's like Koyaanisqatsi only without Philip Glass. Would link a video but googlefail=youtubefail. more »
    corpore-metal: That first image is positively arcology-like! I love pictures of hyper-dense urban living. (Suburbia sucks!) Makes me almost want to move to China jus... more »
    acrobatic rabbit: wow these are pretty cool. i'd like to know why millions of 'matoes were dumped though. 'matoes are yum. more »
    crashedpc - Haifisch: I don't know which blob is mine cuz I live in an area overlapped by 5 of them!!! more »
    Klebert L. Hall: Memo to anyone intending to present data graphically: Lots of people are colorblind, and most of them are red/green colorblind. -Kle. more »
  • #aerialphotography

    Incredibly Strange Landscapes Created By Humans

    No, this isn't Photoshopped - it's a real image, taken from a helicopter among the apartment buildings of mainland Hong Kong. Photographer Jason Hawkes captures bizarre human-made formations from the air - some unrecognizable. More »
  • #madeconomics

    Employment Maps from the Economic Apocalypse

    A series of maps showing job gains and losses in the United States over the past five years makes a fascinating study of how joblessness spread across a country heading for massive economic recession. More »
  • #maps

    World Disaster Map Gives You the Big (Terrifying) Picture

    The National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications in Hungary has put together a helpful real-time map of global disasters. In this detail, you can see a series of earthquakes that hit Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Russia today, as well as an explosion in Norway and a flood in Finland. More »
  • #remoteplaces

    Set Up Your Mad Science Lair on the Most Remote Islands on Earth

  • #madcartography

    The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps

    Adrian Leskiw is one of the rarest kinds of science fiction creators: He does his world-building entirely through the medium of road maps. A self-professed road geek, Leskiw creates extremely realistic road systems for fictional countries or alternate versions of existing ones. Here you can see a map he's created of an imaginary island called Breda in the south Pacific, in the year 2040. More »
  • #strangeearth

    A Planet of Boiling Water and Lava

    One of the most gorgeous images from National Geographic's recent photography contest is this one, of a boiling lake under cloudy skies. It looks like what I imagine the methane lakes might look like on Titan. Taken by Ben Hattenbach, this pool of intensely (and naturally) blue water is a geothermal oasis in an arctic desert in Hveravellir, in the Kjolur region of central Iceland. One of the other winners managed to capture an image of boiling rock arcing through the air. More »