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> As an aside, have you looked closely at Greenland on a globe? It looks all wrong - long and skinny like someone messed up the aspect ratio.

:) Yeah! I don't know why the 3D spherical projection gets a free pass when we're talking about mapping.

There's an unbelievable amount of pretentiousness in this thread, it's ridiculous.

Imagine the roar if he'd used Comic Sans as the typeface for all place names. And made the frame out of re-purposed shipping pallets.

I haven’t contributed to those comment threads, but I have found them much more interesting to read than the original article, regardless of the putative quantity of neocortex supporting their authors’ brows.