Catching up, and maps elsewhere

First, here's the project I was working on the other week instead of a weekly map: a Google Earth video of the main Olympic venues, narrated by multimedia editor Scott Simmie. Making a Google Earth video of somewhere in British Columbia is about twelve times as much fun as anywhere else, for reasons that will become obvious. Mouseover the image to start:

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A paper forwarded by reporter Vanessa Lu shows maps of concentrations of artists and cultural workers by postal code in Toronto, as well as Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. (Toronto starts on page 42.)

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Former deputy managing editor Catharine Tunnacliffe sent a link to a blog post mapping Facebook relationships in the United States, showing how intensely regional they are. I'd be amazed if a Canadian version didn't look similar.

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Also, I should mention the Star's photo blog, a group effort by our photographers, which for my money is one of the better things we've ever done on line.

Photographer Steve Russell has a recent post on how (and why) male figure skaters' faces can look very, very strange: