This is the map of the United States that IKEA uses to let you locate its stores. It’s drawn, and it’s not awful or anything. (Even though the toe end of the Louisiana “boot” is all basically underwater now.)
But what the hell is that thing above Maine? Why is all of New England, er, engorged? It looks like some unfortunate Swedish cartographer — probably stuffed with meatballs to the point of distraction — slapped the Gaspe peninsula on top of the U.S. — as if there are secret American IKEAs in extreme eastern Quebec.
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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