Understanding the scale of Hurricane Katrina – This neat interactive map thingy from the Boston Globe gives some sense of proportion for those of us who don’t know how big things are around New Orleans. In this overlay, which only serves to demonstrate size, not predict what would happen in a flood of the Boston area, Wellesly and Harvard are under water, but Brandeis is just barely spared. Too bad about Brookline, though, I’ll miss eating at Zaftig’s.