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The Bucky Fuller Dymaxion Map

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I meat abstract representations of data, places etc.

AAAAAAAAH What does it mean OH NO he MEATS ABSTRACT STUFF oh help oh lord.

Ahem, sorry.

But AAAAH I imagigoogled 'science chart' and got this WHAT IS IT?

ihttp://www7.nationalacademies.org/ilit/Large_View_Chicago_City_Science_Chart-1.gif

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't worry, I deserved that. I was being a dick about the criteria, so my spelling mistakes deserve to be mocked.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

emil.y you live in sneinton!?? i used to go there every now and then cos i was in uni in nottingham and my friend lived there (and i think there are people more scary than internet mentalists to worry about there!! The had a police drugs raid once of the house opposite my friend's, in which they didn't find any drugs, but found a bomb!!!! (plus i witnessed a fist and knee in the stomachs kinda fight the first night i was there eep!))

Yeah, Sneinton! We are RUFF FuX0rs yay! Although I have to say I've never experienced anything as mental as bombs nearby, but I am staying in as much as possible to avoid scary firework-throwing children. AAAAH!

(Sorry about overloading on superlativeness and exclamations but I am still wacked by election distress and the only way I seem to be combating it is by turning into MJ Hibbett)

xpost I wasn't mocking, really, I just found it amusing at the time

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://bbc.nvg.org/sw/Elite/Airwolf-map.jpg

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.ciesin.org/datasets/gpw/gppd-12in.gif

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 5 November 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.trigonalmayhem.com/worc-topo.jpg

GIS is fun!

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Friday, 5 November 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/rural_us_ev_num.gif

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 6 November 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.bento.com/subtop5.html

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.flyingkettle.com/allais/eclipses_files/image029.jpg

― Spinning Down Alone You Spin Alive (ex machina), Saturday, 6 November 2004 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I love this site:

http://www.euratlas.com/summary.htm

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 6 November 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Barry, thanks for that, I've been rapt for the last 20 minutes!

(Go Venice!... oh, Venice is gone :( )

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 6 November 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

emily, is sneinton near st. ann's? my ex's little sister went to (private school) there and my ex herself went to n0ttingham high school fr g1rls, I'm trying to remember where she stayed, now. can't remember. is hoxley where broadwhatever the cinema is called is, haha the boho area? I quite like nottingham actually.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think much, of nottingham.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

it probably has trams.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/cartlinear.png

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Fpr explanations and more electoral maps:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

wow, that is beautiful

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.skyscraper.org/timeformations/fly.html

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Earthquake activity.
http://www.sensorium.org/breathingearth/logdata02/index.html

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link

So.. Los Angeles County is the most populous, followed by the county that Chicago is in?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I think that's right, Chris. Check out
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2003/cb03-65.html
which also ranks the "fastest growing" counties.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://plainjanestudio.com/Mexico/Tree-of-Life-Guadalupe2.jpg
http://world.std.com/~snet/stol3.gif
ihttp://www.bota.org/images/treeclr-7.jpg
ihttp://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006410.jpg
http://www.revelation2seven.org/UsedImages/ChristMystery.gif
http://www.trigono.com/calendario_celtico/images/yggdra2.gif

― Azoth, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Kabbalah has a lot more to offer aesthetically than spiritually.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.puramaryam.de/aura.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://library.thinkquest.org/27890/media/fibonacciSpiralBoxes.gif
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~odsgroe/wwwha/spiralen/www-phyllotaxis/phyllo.gifs/parastichen.JPG
http://www.ulb.ac.be/soco/matsch/recherche/22/fibonacci/phyllo07.jpg
ihttp://www.fibonacci-arrays.com/Tropic.jpg
http://www.invisiblecircle.org/schwochow/images/abb4.gif
http://www.invisiblecircle.org/schwochow/images/abb8.gif
http://www.geocities.com/clamvobis/Fibonacci_spiral.jpg
http://www.moonstar.com/~nedmay/cfsgimg/squaresm.jpg

― Azoth, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you calling me a hippy?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.earlham.edu/%7Eclas/classics-map.jpg
Painted by friends of mine on the wall of our Latin classroom at college

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

That is really cool, but there's a bit missing:

http://www.deonix.homestead.com/files/pic30.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/gac_images/Fullsize/17523.jpg

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/pagecgd109party_us2.gif

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

i love this thread

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link

one of my maps up there didn't work, so i'll try again

http://www.fs.fed.us/land/ecosysmgmt/colorimagemap/ecoreg1_provinces.gif

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~sara/html/mapping/election/election04/counties_cartogram.jpg

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

three months pass...

http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/maps/metroarea/us_wall/Nov2004/cbsa_us_1104_large.gif

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/multimodal-london-10km-1000px.png

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 (seventeen years ago) link

but from where?
"that dot in the middle."
to where?
The colored pixels. The color represents the total travel time to get to that location.

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

oddly, electoral maps are neither cool nor beautiful.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://faculty.washington.edu/stkerr/minard.GIF
Minard's map of Napoleon's 1812 rout from Russia (1861)

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 (seventeen years ago) link

oddly, electoral maps are neither cool nor beautiful.
i guess they're trying to make up for that by being gigantic, cf. suv limo.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

dude, at least find a jpg or whatever that does Minard's map justice. get one tufte.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/seqD_063a_half.jpg

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Z-MACHINE'S LONG LOST PAL

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ps here is my favorite blog about this:

http://infosthetics.com/

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

oh MAN.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

omg, the dark matter, the universe! the movies are great too.
xpost

okay, infosthetics.com, i love you.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

THEY TIE-DYED LONDON!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

== FAIR WARNING ==

IF YOU POST ANYTHING I'VE SEEN ON A BLOG, YOU GONNA GET SHOT.

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

psst, dudes, he reads a lot of blogs!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

or at least yer gonna get "I READ x TOO"
xpost

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DY_IDkXX0AA5fbq.jpg:large

― calzino, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_North_Caucasian_Emirate.svg/1200px-Flag_of_North_Caucasian_Emirate.svg.png

flag of the short lived North Caucasion Emirate :)

― calzino, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.shifnal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/image2-392x280.jpg

― mark s, Monday, 6 January 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link

lol no, not that, THIS:

The spread of dumplings in the late-ish Middle Ages. Look, people can agree on things. (from Rachel Laudan, Cuisine and Empire) pic.twitter.com/bRqeXKa1fL
— Yuliya Komska (@ykomska) January 5, 2020

― mark s, Monday, 6 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

https://i0.wp.com/seedtocrop.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/vegetables_history.jpg?w=1024&ssl=1

― Mordy, Monday, 10 February 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link

Last night:

Me: Got any homework?

Anna: Nah.

Me: Whatcha gonna do?

Anna: Have a map I’m working on.

Just found this on her desk. pic.twitter.com/9uulpX1Pve
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) February 12, 2020

― j., Thursday, 13 February 2020 03:30 (four years ago) link

https://cartographerswithoutborders.org/post/132149989593/my-plan-to-create-a-perfectly-flat-and-level

― koogs, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYdjVVQX0AAPGIj?format=jpg&name=large

― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link

four weeks pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbS4el1XgAAIUZo?format=jpg&name=large

― Mordy, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link

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