Factor in that you can't even make out the mostly blue, tiny little urban districts, and the United States seem to be much more blue than what many think.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.fs.fed.us/land/ecosysmgmt/colorimagemap/ecoreg1_provinces.gif
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Another US election voting map, but with the size of each county altered to reflect population.
― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link
warm areas = shorter travel times, cool areas = longer
but from where? to where? i think maybe it's all based around that dot in the middle.
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
This compelling map, brought to public attention again by Edward Tufte, was drawn by French engineer Charles Joseph Minard to depict the crushing defeat of Napoleon's army as it first marched on and then retreated from Moscow in the winter of 1812-13. The combination of human drama, multivariate information, and minimal extraneous data all enhance its effect. As Tufte notes, "It may be the best statistical graphic ever drawn."
― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Millennium Simulation. Shows simulated present day distribution of dark matter in an area around 1/10 the size of the observable universe. Bright regions = denser. Turns out you get filaments and pancake structures. Amazing videos on the website, e.g. "During the two minutes of the movie, we travel a distance for which light would need more than 2.4 billion years."
― caek (caek), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
http://infosthetics.com/
― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
oh MAN.
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
okay, infosthetics.com, i love you.
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
IF YOU POST ANYTHING I'VE SEEN ON A BLOG, YOU GONNA GET SHOT.
― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.fractalus.com/steve/stuff/ipmap/con.jpg
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 June 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 June 2006 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 2 June 2006 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/images/largepng/65.png
Refined Petroleum Imports
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/images/largepng/66.png
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Crimea River (Mark C), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Secret Map of the Elders of Zion
― mayhaps (mayhaps), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― literalisp (literalisp), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― literalisp (literalisp), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. Madness, the first movement, opens with a wildly swarming mass of around 1,500 particles, emanating from the center of the screen and then careening outwards, bouncing off walls and reacting to the behavior of the mouse. Each particle represents a single feeling, posted by a single individual. The color of each particle corresponds to the tone of the feeling inside – happy positive feelings are bright yellow, sad negative feelings are dark blue, angry feelings are bright red, calm feelings are pale green, and so on.
[warning: Java]
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 3 June 2006 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 3 June 2006 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Saturday, 3 June 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
NASA moonwalks, to the scale of a football pitch:
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/a11vsfootball.gif?w=700
full size
― ledge, Friday, 6 June 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
from http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ which has many other strange and beautiful maps.
― ledge, Friday, 6 June 2008 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
(correction, just the apollo 11 moonwalk)
― ledge, Friday, 6 June 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link