Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.