Peters Map

The West Wing has its second season out on DVD. Actually, it has probably been out for some time, but it has just recently started to dominate my Netflix queue. I remembered what turns out to have been the second "Big Block of Cheese" episode from when it first aired, but it was good to give it another look-see. CJ had a run-in with what promised to be a humorous and ridiculous band of "merry men" from a fictional group called "Cartographers for Social Equality," or something. So they put up the Peters Map, which is basically another two dimensional representation of a three dimensional object, but this one with a better characterization of relative areas. Which I guess is a serious social issue. But I always preferred the da Vinci or Buckminster Fuller ways of avoiding excessive stretching with scissors. So much more satisfying.