I use Google Analytics to keep track of views of the home page of the organization at which I work. (In case you're curious: we're a smallish program at a university, so as you can imagine, we're not talking Boing Boing-esque numbers here--I'm more interested in where and when pageviews are happening. But that's beside the point.) Analytics offers a nifty interactive map allowing users to view activity state-by-state. As you can see and probably could have guessed if you knew that's where we're located, New York accounts for most of our hits.But something ain't right here. Let's take a closer look.
I'm outraged on Michigan's behalf: the familiar glove and whatever-the-upper-peninsula-is-supposed-to-look-like has been replaced with a depiction of Ontario's failed 1932 invasion of Wisconsin (look it up).Worse yet, it looks like a bigger, tilted New Jersey, and I think the world is fine with just one of those.
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That's actually what Michigan's true borders look like. We, uh, do not discuss it with outsiders.
I see--I figure that includes the American half of the lakes then?
The same map also did make Florida look like it had a tail, but at least the Keys looked less like a pee stream than in some of the more phallic depictions.
Yes, it's showing Michigan's water boundaries, including its little-known border with Minnesota.
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