Barrington Atlas. The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World provides beautiful detailed topographical maps of the ancient world. A mammoth undertaking in production over 12 years with 160 scholars and cartographers (with help from MapQuest) and estimated to cost over $5 million it is the largest and most accurate Ancient World Atlas ever. Composed of 99 maps (examples) the Atlas is easily available to the layperson. "If you're gripped by Hannibal and want to sort out which way you think he went through the Alps, you'll have enough of a clear landscape to do it. If you want to follow St. Paul around the eastern Mediterranean, you can." [MetaFilter] 
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Tribute to George Orwell [ via STOP1984] 
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ghosts from the sky. The AMANDA II collaboration has just published the first map of the high energy neutrino sky. This is amazing science and is a bit more frigid than the old DUMAND detector. I had considered a postdoc with DUMAND but,... [tingilinde] 
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What Would Wink Do?. The Bush/Cheney campaign lets you look up campaign donors on their web page. With its help, we can now answer the burning question "Forget about me...who does the incredibly popular, beloved-by-millions television personality Wink Martindale support?"

Now we know. [MetaFilter] 
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Who's who among digerati?. General Thinking "began in early 2001 as a collaboration between Remo Giuffré, Geoffrey Gifford, along with a shared intuitive desire to gather together a global Network of Thinkers who shared certain Beliefs." Their "roster" includes Erik "MetaDesign" Spiekermann and a variety of interesting folks. Friendster for the digerati? Always interesting to read what the elite think of their peers... [MetaFilter] 
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How the President got spammed. Okay, let me recap, I want to be sure I haven't missed anything:

• Some Nigerian weirdo invents something about Nigerian selling Uranium to Iraq (must be in the same group of those sending you spam asking if they can move $4M to your bank account)
• then he sells the news to the Italian secret service
• they think appropriate to report to the British secret services
• who will then pass the news to the CIA
• who will send it over at the White House
• just in time to get it included in the President's address to the nation.

And somebody is accusing bloggers of not checking facts before posting? [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] 
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