La Perouse and Cook 2.0

I love this oddly familiar map of the various online countries, from my favorite geek cartoonist, XKCD.

Next step: Argonauts of the Western Noob Sea.

Christopher Kelty does anthropological and historical research on science and technology, free and open source software, intellectual property and open access, the history of software, and the ethics and politics of nanotechnology. He also teaches classes about all of these things. From 2001 to 2008 he was assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University, in Houston, TX. He know teaches at UCLA and splits his time between the Information Studies department, the Anthropology Department and the Center for Society and Genetics.