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		<title>Cartocacoethes: Uncontrollable Compulsion to See Maps Everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human brain is wired to recognize faces everywhere, but it turns out that there&#8217;s also a strange mania called cartocacoethes: the uncontrollable compulsion to see maps everywhere.
Strange Maps blog has a post about these &#34;accidental maps&#34; &#8211; for example, the africa in milanesa to the left:
&#8220;I was cooking this typical Argentinian food called milanesa, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2009-01/accidental-maps.jpg" width="150" height="194" class="imageleft">The human brain is wired to recognize faces everywhere, but it turns out that there&#8217;s also a strange mania called <a href="http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/cartocacoethes-why-the-worlds-oldest-map-isnt-a-map/">cartocacoethes</a>: the uncontrollable compulsion to see maps everywhere.</p>
<p>Strange Maps blog has a post about these &quot;accidental maps&quot; &#8211; for example, the africa in milanesa to the left:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I was cooking this typical Argentinian food called milanesa, when I found the map of Africa in my saucepan,&#8221; writes Manuel Barcia from Argentina. &#8220;This typical dish is made out of a cut meat from the back of the cow, called nalga, covered with a mix of mashed bread and eggs and then fried. I always say that each piece of meat looks like an undiscovered island or some unknown place, but this looked just like Africa.&#8221; </em></p>
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<p><a href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/350-accidental-cartography-between-cartocacoethes-and-blatant-pareidolia/">Link</a> &#8211; via <a href="http://bblinks.blogspot.com/2009/01/cartocacoethes.html">BB-Blog</a></p>
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