As any cartography and transport "map" nerd will tell you - it's not a map, it's a diagram.

How long is half a football field in libraries of congress?

I love the smell of capitalism in the morning...

Stupid people... We know better! It's fat cars and guns that give you bigger dicks!

Thank you! I finally know that a microsecond was the equivalent of a millionth of a second... Just the kind of information I expect from "News for Nerds". Now excuse me while I peruse some of your excellent "From the Web" links (rolls eyes).

I do it all the time on Swiss trains. Then again, if they put a socket above every seat (on modern trains at least), I somehow expect they won't mind.

As Robert Bosch famously said: "I don't pay people well because I have much money. I have much money because I pay people well."

I think it depends on your frame of reference. North Pole and the various rings around the south pole are correct if you want to end up in the same location with reference to the earth. If you observe the situation from the sun, there's no possible point, since the earth moves while you walk. If you observe the situation with yourself as the frame of reference, any point will do, since you will always end up where you are...

How many idiots will use this in the safe knowledge that they can't be busted for speeding anymore, I wonder...

Not a huge surprise... Though I wonder how they're going to wriggle their way out of that one. I'm guessing they'll just try to ignore it and hope it goes away.

Don't forget:

- a rubber hammer (for failing hard drives without visible traces)
- a cattle prod (for failing "visitors" without visible traces)
- a sledgehammer (for failing anything if you don't mind visible traces)
- thermite (to get rid of visible traces)

Works absolutely fine in Switzerland.

We will not tolerate such foul language on slashdot!

That still wouldn't help for Iceland...

Lots of options - I'm missing the Cimier Watch Academy (http://www.cimier.com/watch-academy-200.html). Nice, stylish mechanical Swiss wristwatch... but you get to build it yourself.

No disclaimer necessary - I don't work for them.