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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

but there are a lot of blogs! i'm going to plead ignorance.
anyway.

http://www.fractalus.com/steve/stuff/ipmap/con.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.carto.com/maps/9909059.jpg

― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/robotzoo/about/images/squid.gif

― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Do not sink below the horizon, thread of lost maps. You are too pretty.

― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

robot squid!
robot zoo!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.discoveryofpluto.com/images/mars2.gif

― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That London travel map is really intesting, I'd like to see it for a wider area!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

If you go to their site, they have a travel-time map for all of the UK, I believe.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 June 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 June 2006 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Dudes I already posted a link to a large version of Minard's map way back at the beginning of this thread!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

re time maps:
those odd grey areas around hawick and bute are interesting. here be tygers.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 2 June 2006 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link

But I want is a time-travel map. But I suppose I have to ask Dr. Who for one of those. :-(

― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Refined Petroleum Exports

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Refined Petroleum Imports

http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/images/largepng/66.png

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy crap Ireland imports and lot of petroleum, as does - what is that - Mautitius?

― Crimea River (Mark C), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think that's ireland. I think it might be England...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

That's Ireland. Britain exports because of Scotland's North Sea oil.

― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/headwideopen/JWOflags2.jpg

Secret Map of the Elders of Zion

― mayhaps (mayhaps), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.kottke.org/plus/manhattan-elsewhere/

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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