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Stephanie Butnick, "Maps Chart Speech Patterns Across America," Tablet Magazine , June 5, 2013 Today in fun charts: Joshua Katz, a statistics PhD student at N.C. State University put together a series of maps of the United States which reveal the staggering extent to which where we live in influences how we say what we say. Basically, why New Yaw-kers speak differently than, say, Texans. In addition to illustrating the geographic coordinates of the sub/hoagie and soda/pop debates, Katz’s cartographical endeavor plots contentious pronunciation from coast to coast: caramel (where more vowels get dropped the further west you go), crayon (all over the board, literally), and mayonnaise (which I prefer to simply avoid both in speech and practice). >>> Mickey Mellen, "Historic Overlay Maps of North Carolina," Google Earth Blog, June 3, 2013 Image overlays have consistently been one of the neatest features in Google Earth.  The most common use of overla...

Maureen McGavin, "Digital project focuses on Lincoln-based sermons," Emory News Center, February 22, 2013 The route of Lincoln's funeral train A group of graduate students at Emory University specializing in digital research in the humanities have created a new website that uses digital tools to analyze and compare the text of sermons delivered after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Their project uses various digital text tools to map geographic and thematic patterns in the collection of 57 sermons, which reside in the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library of Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library. The scholars are calling their project "Lincoln Logarithms: Finding Meaning in Sermons" and they hope it will become a model for the next wave of research in the humanities. >>> Max Fisher, "A surprising map of the world’s national holidays (only two countries have no national day)," Washington Post , February 26, 2013 This map...