Unable to get any traction in the courts, AT&T has taken to the airwaves to fight Verizon Wireless: Map vs. Map. Nice postcards, Luke. I thought I even saw a couple map postcards in the mix... Via Mashable

This is Cartophilia post #500! (Queue the balloons and music!) That's post # D .5K 1111101002 1F416 I forgot to note my 2nd Anniversary back in September but, by golly, I'm not going to let this milestone go unnoticed! Woot! Ok, enough of that....

We all know that Sen. Al Franken can draw all 50 states from memory, but can your U.S. Senator draw your state? To help kick off Geography Awareness Week, National Geographic invited all 100 U.S. Senators to draw a map of their home state from memory...

As an experiment in information art, Pedro M. Cruz has created video representation of the evolution of the top four empires in decline during the 19th and 20th centuries; the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese: Visualizing empires decline from...

Erik Johansson, of Gothenburg, Sweden, is a photographer who likes to have fun with Photoshop. Kaffeslump (Coffee Spill?): Via Bored Panda