Places I Visited on the Internet Today #12

There's a lot of stuff on the Internet. Here's what I got around to looking at today:

• A brief article on the history of cartography and errors in mapping. I had to go put the author's book "On the Map" onto my "Too Read" list on GoodReads.
• An article on Civil War cartography that sounded like it would be interesting, but then turned out to have very little actual information.
• The Portland Tribune profiles the guy who does Portland Transport has put together some homebrew transit trackers for different locations. They refer to these as "inventions", which sounds quaint and out-of-touch.
• Speaking of out-of-touch, the Oregonian kicks off an article about the Portland Art Museum digitizing their archives by putting the word digitizing in scare quotes. 
• The National Parks Service restored some graffiti that was created during the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island, which is something that I had completely forgotten about.
• There are plans to build a Walmart-sized retail store on the site of the ruins of the Thunderbird Motel. The Fire Bureau has declared that the fire that destroyed the motel was "suspicious". I'd thought that the Mayor had proposed that the site be turned into a public park as part of his West Hayden Island plan, but maybe that fell through when I wasn't paying attention. 
• If you were wondering what the structure being built at the East side of the Hawthorne Bridge is, here's your answer.
• Somebody thought the reflection of light's inside an airplane's cabin was a UFO, so they filmed it.
• Shillapoo Wildlife Area is just across the Columbia from Sauvie's Island. I was checking it out because one of my themes for 2013 is exploring Washington.
• Dave's Killer Bread has traded in half its ownership to an equity firm. I prefer Franz, myself.
• This squirrel.
• The BBC does a year in review about archaeological discoveries. I followed the link about the discovery of King Richard III's body, since I'd only heard about that in passing.
• Portland Afoot has an article about someone making their first grocery shopping trip by bike. I read it and just felt bad for the cashier.
• Shawn Levy has a pretty great Tumblr.
• Paul Krugman writes about the people who fear budget deficits.
• "Paperwork studies".
• A bunch of state parks are having group hikes on January 1st.
• A Salon article briefly explores women and gun control/gun ownership.
• A bunch of photos from the early 1900s depicting different parades in Astoria.
• Bob Stacey is adjusting his tactics in combating the Columbia River Crossing. 
• We were considering going to the Grotto's Festival of Lights (because it has a petting zoo, duh) but then I saw that admission was nine bucks.
• Wikipedia links:
• Ridgefield National Wilderness Refuge (Heather and I went here today - it was really nice!)
• Great Egret
• Cooper's Hawk
• Nutria (I'd never heard of a nutria until around 2002, and back then I wasn't too sure if they were real. I saw a bunch of them today.)
• Ridgefield, Washington
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Stork
• Felida, Washington