Showing posts with label map. Show all posts
Showing posts with label map. Show all posts

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Simple map of Los Angeles if you've ever been curious about the difference between LA County and LA city

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Friday, May 5, 2023

Romantic image of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans kissing thanks to the Panama Canal



*Previously: A Panama Canal pilot manuevers a miniature tugboat during a training day at the Panama Canal's scale model maneuvering training facility
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Thursday, November 12, 2020

Blade Runner origami ornament; Wind direction charts for the coast of Brazil; Clearly the best book cover for The Fountainhead

















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Wednesday, September 9, 2020

"A commercial satellite photo may reveal a new Chinese space plane just moments after it landed at a remote site on the western side of China"

NPR:
"I'm reading a lot into a few little dots," admits Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who diligently tracks spacecraft and satellites. But

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So why might China now be getting into space planes?

"It's a great question," says Brian Weeden, director of program planning for the Secure World Foundation, which advocates for the peaceful use of space. "We're not even really sure why the U.S. military is pursuing a space plane."
From a thread about identifying the airstrip:






Related, another secret uncovered:










And one more:

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Saturday, May 23, 2020

Maps and diagrams from the Star Trek The Next Generation episode "Conspiracy" about the throat parasites












*Previously: The Enterprise in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” had a deck called Cetacean Ops, where dolphins and whales were crew mates
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Big game hunter; River map; Off-model Gundam























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Monday, December 3, 2018

"here are some gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory"







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Thursday, September 27, 2018

"Native-Land is a website dedicated to helping people across the world learn more about their local Indigenous history"

Enter your zipcode at the map for information about who lived there before you.
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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Zarana painting; Vintage map of South America; How logos used to be assembled

















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Sunday, August 6, 2017

Gallery of maps declassified by the CIA



Albums here.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

“'Alexander’s Gates' . . . This myth was the Pacific Rim of its day"

Bldg:
I was also reminded of another famous military wall constructed in a remote mountain landscape to keep a daunting adversary at bay, the so-called “Alexander’s Gates,” a monumental—and entirely mythic—architectural project allegedly built by Alexander the Great in the Caucasus region to keep monsters out of Europe. This myth was the Pacific Rim of its day, we might say.

I first encountered the story of Alexander’s Gates in Stephen T. Asma’s book, On Monsters.
Alexander supposedly chased his foreign enemies through a mountain pass in the Caucasus region and then enclosed them behind unbreachable iron gates. The details and the symbolic significance of the story changed slightly in every medieval retelling, and it was retold often, especially in the age of exploration. (…) The maps of the time, the mappaemundi, almost always include the gates, though their placement is not consistent.
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Westworld maps

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Link roundup

1. Victorian-style map of Mars.

2. The success of Harry Potter:
Because readers imagine themselves in the universe, there are kind of two stories taking place- one being the "Harry Potter" story, and the other being the story that the reader creates for themselves as they imagine exploring the world and reacting to the world's events. This is why I think Harry Potter is so fondly remembered, people don't just remember the story of Harry, but they additionally remember their own adventures that they created for themselves along the way.

Of course, these choices go beyond just the houses. There are many other options that J.K. gives readers that really lets them imagine themselves (or a character they create) as a character in the books. We've got:

What kind of pet you would take to Hogwarts: an owl, cat, or rat (and the specifics of that pet, like color, personally, and so on)?
What kind of materials your wand would be made out of and what it would look like?
What position would you play in Quidditch?
What kind of broom would you buy?
What classes you would take at Hogwarts?
What would your patronus be?
What kind of spells would you learn?
3. "Japanese prosecutors indicted three former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, owner of the ruined Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, on Monday, charging them with criminal negligence for their role in reactor meltdowns after an earthquake and tsunami five years ago."
Prosecutors initially declined to bring charges in the case. They said there was not enough evidence that failings by Tepco or its leaders had amounted to criminal wrongdoing. But their decision angered Fukushima residents and antinuclear campaigners, who formed the organization led by Ms. Muto, the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Plaintiffs Group, to demand a review.

A rarely used feature of Japanese law allows committees made up of private citizens to examine prosecutors’ decisions regarding whether to indict suspects. In certain circumstances, they can order those decisions reversed.
4. Covert garage door.
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Friday, February 26, 2016

"What if not just one random building or street, however, but an entire map is deliberately wrong?"

TandL:
This is the strange fate of digital mapping products in China: there, every street, building, and freeway is just slightly off its mark, skewed for reasons of national and economic security.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Link roundup

1. "In defense of paying $400 to eat at the Times Square Olive Garden on New Year’s Eve"
Your perfect New Year’s Eve experience involves taking your wife to New York City and watching the ball drop in Times Square. But you imagine doing it from a warm, hospitable place with good music, lots of food and booze, and clean restrooms that are not an adult diaper. This is exactly what the Olive Garden is offering
2. "Western games use map detail to create a sense of exploration or story that is absent from the game play. Eastern markets don't have as much demand for an exploration experience, so Eastern games streamline the map to maintain laser-sharp focus on score and competition."

3. From October, "Top curling teams say they won't use high-tech brooms"
Gushue, Howard, Jones among 34 teams that won't use brooms with 'directional fabric'
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

New book collects Andrew DeGraff's literary maps



Plotted: A Literary Atlas:
This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps—all inspired by literary classics—offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff’s stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, A Christmas Carol, and more. Sure to reignite a love for old favorites and spark fresh interest in more recent works as well, Plotted provides a unique new way of appreciating the lands of the human imagination.
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Maps



Painted maps of states and Isla Nublar on sale at Etsy.
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Friday, January 2, 2015

"HarperCollins omits Israel from maps for Mideast schools, citing ‘local preferences’"

WaPo on the atlas, which is available at Amazon:
For months, publishing giant HarperCollins has been selling an atlas it says was “developed specifically for schools in the Middle East.”
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Alternate reality map of Africa:
I have, as a mind experiment, made a map of what Africa could have looked like in the mid 19th century if Europe had never become a colonizing world power. In order to do this I have tried to construct an alternative historical time-line in which Europe was much harder struck by the plague in the 1350's and never recovered. Therefore African nations would have gotten the opportunity to flourish unhindered. 
But the project is really about real historical precolonial African nations, and I have tried to form a map of the most prominent of those that existed between the 15th and mid 19th century, by looking at historical maps like the one found in UNESCO's “A General History of Africa”, linguistic regions and natural boundaries.
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Friday, September 26, 2014



Ornate maps based on Dungeons and Dragons adventures ($20-$30 each).

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