more graph humor and song chart memes
*I would probably add lemurs to Madagascar and the Marrakesh Express to Morocco, but otherwise probably pretty accurate, huh?
06.08.2008
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Jillian C. York writes about free expression, politics, and the Internet, with particular focus on the Arab world. She works at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and writes for Global Voices Online. Views expressed on this blog belong to Jillian alone and do not represent her employers, past or present.
This Economist article introduces my new favorite word: orkutificação http://bit.ly/b3Ehkg
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13.08.2008lova
Lemurs or hissing cockroaches, it’s a toss-up. BTW, Mada is missing on that map :) but you and I are used to that by now.
29.08.2008EthanZ
Where are the Nigerian spammers, Jillian? I think you’re selling West Africa short…
Of course, given the pathetic level of detail on Africa available on Google Maps, the map above is more or less what we’re able to find online…
29.08.2008Fresca
You missed “The Lion King.”
I would color it orange and run it in stripes across the continent, like the stripes on a flag.
4.09.2008hash
This is hilarious, thanks for sharing it. Would love to embellish it a little more, but that would destroy the impact.
12.06.2009test
Why isn’t Sudan at least place at the correct location? Is that also a pun on the knowledge of the commoner?
10.07.2009Craig Hitchcock
Nigerian spammers, and Chelsea fc training centre in Ivory Coast !! and you forget Bad, mad Uncle bob’s lunatic asylum in Zim !!!!!