Posts Tagged: maps
Post-Quake San Francisco
Winter Binges
“There is something of a binge drinking belt across the north of the country, running westward from New England, Pennsylvania and Ohio to Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and Montana.”
Atlantic Cities dissects binge drinking, looking at state-by-state patterns.
...moreLanguage Map
If you’re looking for an interactive map to play with today, here’s a cool one. It breaks down where various languages are spoken around the country by the percentage of speakers.
...moreCartographic Controversy
“Map projections are just different ways of translating the dimensions of a globe onto a two dimensional surface. A sphere (or oblate spheriod, if you want to be fancy) can’t be flattened without causing some kind of distortion, be it in scale, area, distance and/or direction.”
The controversy surrounding world maps is “entirely real,” and here is a crucial piece to get up to speed on the debate.
...moreRebecca Solnit’s Infinite City
Just to let all discriminating book-buyers know: Rebecca Solnit’s new gorgeously-illustrated and highly-collaborative book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas is out now at all independent bookstores.
...moreA Morning Coffee Map Amendment
In yesterday’s Morning Coffee I linked to this write-up of the 10 maps that changed the world. Rumpus reader’s, evidently quite the antiquarian map enthusiasts, proceeded to email me expressing various degrees of excitement, disgust, outrage, ambivalence; and pointed out a few notable omissions.
...moreThe Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The book blogs are full of awesome this week. You should read them.
How to write to an editor: “I have given your request for evidence 23 hours of thought, the proper number of hours to come up with the right proof.
...moreFables of the Reconstruction
With patience reminiscent of Tolstoy, Cornelia Nixon weaves a tapestry of events to explain how an ordinary girl in post-Civil War Maryland kills her lover and gets away with it.
...moreMaps and Legends
“Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere in your head… and you are just spending your entire life figuring out how to access this map?”
— The Selected Works of T.S.
...moreWendy MacNaughton Superlink
Wendy MacNaughton’s visual blog provides “drawings of people on public transportation on their way to and from work. Five days a week, twice a day, twenty minutes each way. And other commutes to boot.” The effect is somewhere between the chillingly under-acted and over-costumed TV series Mad Men, a song by The Zincs, and drunken half-memories of watching Slacker.