Birthdays are a good time to reflect on one's place in the universe. Via Data Mining, here is a map of the blogosphere, on which we have helpfully circled Cosmic Variance.
The original map is interactive, so you can click on each circle to visit the corresponding blog. We are in a good neighborhood, close to such elite properties as Majikthise, Bitch Ph.D., Lance Mannion, Shakespeare's Sister, Eschaton, The Huffington Post, and Talking Points Memo. At the top you see a big black dot (Engadget) and an even bigger looming orange dot (Boing Boing); the thicket at the right is filled with blogs I know nothing about, which tells you something, although I don't know what. Thanks for visiting, everyone! I wonder what this will look like ten years down the road.
