Here’s today’s WikiBinge [thanks for the term, Brad]:

• Quincunical maps are “a conformal map projection [s] (except for 4 points where its conformality fails) that presents the sphere as a square.” Pretty interesting stuff, if you’re interested in map projections, as I am. [Picked up from the article on quincunxes, which I linked into from Angkor Wat after a mention of the temple on ABC World News Tonight with Charlie Gibson.
• I've spent a fair amount of time reading Antarctica-related articles lately. It really made me wonder if Emilio Marcos Palma had ever written a book about being the only child of Antarctica, but it seems that he hasn't [on Amazon.com, anyway]. I was also quite fascinated by the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition—enough to want to read a book on it, perhaps—and Lake Vostok. Any lake that’s still liquid at -3°C because of massive pressure from glacial ice above and geothermal heating below is wicked cool, regardless of what implications that has for life on Europa. “ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.” Come on … never tell engineers, “Don’t do this.” We’re gonna poke it with a stick, man.
• My senior-year high school roommate Jason sent me a friend request on Facebook today, and after accepting it, I found that he was at SUNY-Stony Brook. Hell, I didn’t know where Stony Brook was until I looked it up. I look at those median family incomes and go, “Man. Too rich for my blood.”

May you get sucked in for a good hour or two as I have.