There's also this.

Apparently the very far north is the porno community, dwarfing all the others.

And this.

Unmitigated Gauls. Heh.

Well, I think it's neat, Apo.

You and me against the world, baby.

I'm surprised that the Bay of Trolls is so small, but I love how Usenet is this Bermuda Triangle-esque chunk of ocean.

Already bookmarked. Why hasn't one of the professional pedants here come down on the spelling of "Blogipeligo"?

Just because I think I'm missing a joke: Sulawesi is a real place in Indonesia or thereabouts, isn't it? Is there something funny about the spelling, or what's it doing there?

7: I assumed that was a representation of Usenet as Laputa.

9: Yes it is, I think it's probably just a cool shape.

9: I'm not sure either. Maybe the artist drew the island, then realized it looked remarkably similar to Sulawesi? It is a distinctive and funnily-shaped place.

Pwned. But I realized that the doodler did way too good a rendering of Sulawesi for it to be an accident.

The main thing the island is famous for is great coffee, which makes no sense as a connection. Maybe it's a reference to the island's former name of Celebes (= "Celebs" in Blogipeligo? Eh?)?

Dude, presumably bloggers, y'know, drink a lot of coffee???

7, 10: I assumed that was the outline of a formerly existing but now submerged Usenet. Like Atlantis.

The small points on there are big fun - "Numa" and "Your Base" over on the east side, "the wreckage of the SS Howard Dean" over near the Blogipelago. Also, the "Cory Doctorow's balloon" joke is explained here.

It is indeed an excellent outline of Sulawesi, and I should know, because I have to draw a map of it (in relation to Borneo, and PNG, and Bali, and Australia) every time someone asks me what I do.

Speaking of places to go on the intertubes - I can't get on to Pharyngula; it hangs at "reading m1.2mdn.net". Is this an all round problem or does scienceblogs just hate me because I'm beautiful?

I can get on. Must be the beauty.

When that sort of thing happens to me, I usually fix it by putting the offending url onto my adblock list. Bloggers are adding more doodads, widgets, and moneymakers than I want to deal with or wait for.

17: So what do you do?

Draws pictures of Oceania. It's a specialized but lucrative field.

I do research on some languages in Sulawesi. And it's just like Sir John Mandeville said:

In one of these isles be folk of great stature, as giants. And they be hideous for to look upon. And they have but one eye, and that is in the middle of the front. And they eat nothing but raw flesh and raw fish.

And in another isle be folk that have horses' feet. And they be strong and mighty, and swift runners; for they take wild beasts with running, and eat them.

And in another isle be folk that go always upon their knees full marvellously. And at every pace that they go, it seemeth that they would fall. And they have in every foot eight toes.

9: That is the joke, LB. And it's the funniest part.

Fuck. Pandora's started enforcing their ban on foreign listeners. Anny advice on how I mask my IP?

Anonymouse?

Nakku, you aren't a classicist by any chance?

I admit it, I'm prejudiced against classics. Is that so wrong?

because I have to draw a map of it (in relation to Borneo, and PNG, and Bali, and Australia) every time someone asks me what I do.

Are you under a geas, Nakku? Did a bad fairy turn up at your baby shower and say, "S/he(?) shall prick her finger on a spindle and then every time anybody asks her what she does she will have to draw a sketch map of a large island in the Indian Ocean, until a handsome geographer shall come to her and give her Google maps"?

Indian Ocean? See, that's what I'm talking about.

Where are you, Nakku? Only Emerson is awake in the whole USA at this hour.

Cambridge, give or take 5 miles. You?

Sheffield

And it's the funniest part.

Stallman's airship is pretty funny.

Go back to sleep, apo. We'll look after the blog for you.
(Right - OFE, ttaM, asilon, who else? Let's get all coked up and trash this joint).

Go back to sleep, apo.

God, how I wish I could go back to sleep, but it's 7 in the morning. I have to feed the kids and get ready for work.

Spooky, it's like you're living my exact life, but 5 hours later.

Too late, I missed the incitement to run riot.

Yeah, and I'm not in the mood anymore. Nice work, ttaM.

I just asked because I know of several classicists in the general area pf Sulawesi. You would have been the fourth.

Classicists, like native Mexican hill tribesmen, must migrate long distances to get any work at all.

Oh. No, linguistics all the way through. Who do you know in/around Sulawesi?