Very pretty. Also congratulations on the picture behind the logo. Its all warm and lovely, while being hellfire and damnationy at the same time. V. appropriate for Memefirst.

I disapprove, on the grounds that it's not a map. But nobody ever listens to me.

The line between a 'map' and an arial image must be blurring. Probably about the same amount of manipulation went into this picture as goes into turning a photo of Washington DC into a road map...

Charles, you doofus. (See, Stefan? We're equal-opportunity over here.) Road maps aren't made from photographs. They're made from on-the-ground surveys. And what makes you think the picture was greatly manipulated? You just pick your spectrum, is all.

Felix, you are sooo mid twentieth century. Nowadays they tend to make maps from satellite/plane photos. So much more straightforward than wondering along the streets with those flimsy unicycle things you can't even ride. And they do way more wierd stuff to photos than just filtering, as I think Stefan mentioned in a blog a while ago which I can't be bothered to find at the moment. Anyway, they certainly don't make maps of the sun by surveying, which I guess would have been the better analogy in the first place.

Yeah, Felix, this is the closest you can get to a map of the sun. The damn sunspots keep on moving...

But, for your edification, I have just scanned a lovely old map that I'll put up next Sunday. Very Heart of Darkness, to countermand all this sunshine.