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Twitter Links Rorschmap
Fractal, rorsch patterns in Google maps

April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments
Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose…

October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments
Link Serpentine-Edge Map Marathon Gallery
Three years ago, Edge collaborated with The Serpentine Gallery in London in a program of "table-top experiments" as part of the Serpentine's Experiment Marathon . This live event was featured…

October 15 2010, 6:52am | Comments
Link Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film
What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like…

September 30 2010, 4:19pm | Comments
Link If the Earth Stood Still
If the earth stood still, the oceans would gradually migrate toward the poles and cause land in the equatorial region to emerge. This would eventually result in a huge equatorial…

August 16 2010, 2:51am | Comments
Metafilter Going (London) Underground The London Underground. Every Londoner has used it, but has everyone really seen it? The old map is looking a bit dusty. Perhaps its time for Geographic precision…

August 13 2010, 5:47am | Comments
Link The Agnostic Cartographer
Oe fateful day in early August, Google Maps turned Arunachal Pradesh Chinese. It happened without warning. One minute, the mountainous border state adjacent to Tibet was labeled with its usual…

July 11 2010, 4:33pm | Comments
Link Signs: The most useful thing you pay no…
Signage—the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors—is the most useful thing we pay no attention to. When it works well, it tells us…

May 2 2010, 2:28pm | Comments
Link A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson
By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture."…

March 7 2010, 4:53pm | Comments
Link Myriahedral projection maps of the world
A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out…

December 23 2009, 3:50am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

November 1 2009, 10:02pm | Comments
Link On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of…
by Umberto Eco

September 8 2009, 9:15am | Comments
Link Atlas Obscura
Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloguing all of the singular,…

June 16 2009, 3:14pm | Comments
Link Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange…
“When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds…

June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments

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