Potpourri for a Monday on Vacation

Robo-Dave suggests:

1. DOF presents a very nice article on getting the most bang for the buck in various efforts to stop global warming.  Worth a read.
2. Iwo Jima is being renamed Iwo To by the Japanese government — but this isn’t some sort of historical revisionism or the like — the Japanese military misnamed the Japanese-owned island in the first place (the two names are written with the same characters, but pronounced differently; the military used the Iwo Jima name after they evacuated all civilians and took over the island).
3. The Star Wars galaxy — if you include all sorts of stuff from the novels and the like.  I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this map before, perhaps during Doyce’s old SW game, but it’s still pretty fun. (via kottke)
4. There’s The Rat Patrol … then there’s the Real Thing.