They're Everywhere!!!

This map represents every McDonald's restaurant in the United States. From Stephen Von Worley at Weather Sealed:
"As expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid. East of the Mississippi, there’s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of meager gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia.

For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern Oregon, the rugged wilderness of Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains, and the conspicuous well of blackness on the high plains of northwestern South Dakota. There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer.

Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!"

Star Charts

Now when you're out cruising the universe and you get lost you won't need to stop for directions.

CWCID: Jonah Goldberg

Will The Last Person Leaving North Korea Please Turn Off The Lights

This is a night satellite photo of Korea. The only dot of light in the north is the capital Pyongyang which is home to 3 million people. Somehow I don't think their nuclear expertise is being used to generate electricity.

What Is It?

A recently discovered Jackson Pollock painting? Personally, I think it has much more of a Peter Max feel to it. Actually it's none of the above. It's a NASA/USGS map of the dark side of the moon.
CWCID: Strange Maps

Strange Maps

This is very cool. It is a map of the United States with the names of other countries with similar GDP's to that individual state! Click the map to enlarge it.