Who made this?

May 10, 2007 3:32 PM

But where did the awesome MeFi map come from?
posted by typewriter to MetaFilter-Related at 3:32 PM (25 comments total)

From EndsOfInvention, here.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:39 PM on May 10, 2007

Who made this?

Define your pronoun, please.
posted by sourwookie at 3:39 PM on May 10, 2007

I wanted to write a post, but I was sure I just missed it somewhere. It's not just me I guess.
posted by jourman2 at 3:40 PM on May 10, 2007

Thanks, cortex.
posted by sourwookie at 3:40 PM on May 10, 2007

Very cool, missed that thread. Thanks.
posted by typewriter at 3:59 PM on May 10, 2007

My RSS feed showed an earlier Metatalk post by matt about it but has since been deleted.
posted by vacapinta at 3:59 PM on May 10, 2007

Yeah, jessamyn was all "wtf, that's like four days old n00b!" so I deleted it but put it on the sidebar instead.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:20 PM on May 10, 2007

So, why does metafilter look like South America?

Or is it a chicken wing?
posted by jourman2 at 4:25 PM on May 10, 2007

Where is Jacob's hut and the Pearl Station?
posted by geoff. at 5:18 PM on May 10, 2007

I missed it too.
Great map, EndsOfInvention.
Thanks, tw.
posted by bru at 5:30 PM on May 10, 2007

Maybe some admin with nothing better to do would add a little link back to the thread and comment that spawned the whole map quest.
posted by Dave Faris at 6:37 PM on May 10, 2007

"So, why does metafilter look like South America?"

Mefi's pretty near a leftist anarchy?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:58 PM on May 10, 2007

A fanatical devotion to the Pope?
posted by Dizzy at 7:16 PM on May 10, 2007

Credit for EndsofInvention on the sidebar!
posted by typewriter at 7:42 PM on May 10, 2007

“"So, why does metafilter look like South America?"”

No, it's because most of us bulge in the middle.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 7:48 PM on May 10, 2007

Holy duplicated quotation marks!
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 7:48 PM on May 10, 2007

The meme is infinitely extendable. Good work! I am already naming rivers and hollows and peninsulas.
posted by Miko at 8:34 PM on May 10, 2007

Verily, I have pestered He Who Runs The Place until the sidebar has run yellow with updates.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:08 PM on May 10, 2007

Oh god a MetaTalk callout! :(

Oh, wait.
Thanks guys! :)

(For those who didn't follow the whole thread I posted the map in, we were discussing which island MeFi would be on xkcd's map of online communities. I just expanded the one we picked (in The Blogipeligo, north-west of Boing Boing) and drew in the details, so that's where the South-American-esque shape came from.)
posted by EndsOfInvention at 2:30 AM on May 11, 2007 [1 favorite]

Yeah for artistic credit! (Ends - I hope you will update as the meta-world conquers new lands!)
posted by typewriter at 8:34 AM on May 11, 2007

Official t-shirt request!
posted by onlyconnect at 9:46 AM on May 11, 2007

i want a tshirt too! it's great, but it needs a newbie lagoon or isle of ancient members or something too.
posted by amberglow at 12:33 PM on May 11, 2007

I guess I could zoom in and do a larger scale map with added injokes (suggestions welcome). Maybe if I have time at the weekend.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 4:37 PM on May 11, 2007

a flaming volcano for flameouts?

a sockpuppet swamp?

: >
posted by amberglow at 4:55 PM on May 11, 2007

T-shirts! In girly!
posted by typewriter at 7:22 PM on May 11, 2007