Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (long form Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch), also spelt Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll and commonly known as Llanfair PG or Llanfairpwll, is a village and community on the island of Anglesey in Wales, situated on the Menai Strait next to Menai Bridge and across the strait from Bangor. Read all about it here!

With Gracenote's Music Maps you can find out who is listening to what and where throughout the world.

I zoomed in on Minnesota and "J.K. Rowling" came up in the "Current Top 10 Artists".  Unless they are referring to books on tape, since when did she start her own rock band? 

Lily is 23 months old and can find her way around a map better than I can.  Video.

Sure, she can locate several countries on a map, but can she identify different kinds of sharks and whales like my son?  I think not.

Can anyone explain this strange landscape I found in Afghanistan this evening?

Those are some substantial craters, but they are in the middle of nowhere - so I'm thinking it's not the result of some bombing campaign. Some of the lines of holes will have a small stream at one end, which makes me think this is a method for irrigation. But why so many, and why so huge?

Anders over at The Random Show created a really interesting video using Google Earth combined with spatial information for video bloggers around the world.

What I love about videoblogging (or video in general as a medium) is that if I get an idea, I can visualize it in almost no time at all because the tools available are so easy to work with, and I get some result immediately.

This video is a good example of how quickly we're approaching the point where the same can be said for mapping and GIS tools.

The data was supplied by the folks over at vlogmap.org who recently released a vlogger dataset for google earth.

Anyone want to post a list of their favorite video blogs?

[via makezine]