Eric Sanderson gives this TED talk about how he and his team developed a full 3D map of Manhattan as it looked before it was settled into the massive metropolis we know it to be today.

There was actual vegetation?!

You can't take the entertainer out of the politician!  Al Franken is said to have used this trick to get himself into the senate.

Ever wonder just how far in you can zoom in using Google Maps? Satellites and GPS technology have reconceptualized what we can see through our computers. Here, two college buddies get a little too close for comfort when they...

One thing is certain in the 2007 web world, Miss South Carolina is a superstar! Caitlin Upton came down with a bad case of verbal diarrhea during the Q&A section of the Miss Teen USA contest. The beauty queen tried to blame a...

There's a collective nerdgasm a-poppin' across the internet over this video announcing Google's new "My Location" feature for mobile devices. Whether you have a GPS phone or not, Google can help you find your way through the...

You knew it wouldn't take long for the new Miss South Carolina to hit the academic scene. This sequence isn't as unintelligible (and we can even sympathize with getting the Budapest question wrong), but the debates over...

It's rare that these web videos have legs longer than a few days, but Lauren Caitlin Upton has earned herself a spot in Internet Infamy. She was the talk of our Labor Day festivities and probably yours too--she's the gift...

Jimmy Kimmel tries to make sense of Miss South Carolina’s nonsensical (and very viral) plea for more maps during the Miss Teen USA competition, breaking out the old chalkboard to crack the code word-by-word on his late night...

If you haven't yet endured this again today... treat yourself again! Miss South Carolina, Lauren Caitlin Upton, utterly butchers a question about map-reading. How better to illustrate a question about cultural illiteracy than...

Miss South Carolina, Caitlin Upton, came down with a bad case of verbal diarrhea during the Q&A section of the Miss Teen USA contest. The beauty queen tried to blame a lack of maps for poor geography knowledge in the U.S. (...