archival quality: an object lesson on the durability of microfilm, via Slashdot
mercator-projection: Google Maps shifts to depict the Earth as a globe, helping to ameliorate geographic perspectives (previously)achoque: a convent near Lake Pátzcuaro is saving an endangered salamander from extinction—the nuns producing a cough syrup from its skin, via Kottke’s Quick Links
jingfen: a Finnish comic about social anxieties finds resonance with millions of Chinese people
lossless compression: organisms seem pretty indifferent to the effects of squeezing their whole genome into a single DNA molecule
the oxygen of amplification: exploring the conundrum of covering tabloid politics and some advice for journalists on how to not fall into the manipulative traps