February 2011
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Null Island
WARNING: A troubleshooting country has been added with an Indeterminate sovereignty class called Null Island (1, 2). It is a fictional, 1 meter square island located off Africa where the equator and prime meridian cross. Being centered at 0,0 (zero latitude, zero longitude) it is useful for flagging geocode failures which are routed to 0,0 by most mapping services. Aside: “Null Islands” exist for...
Feb 1st
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Flowprint of London - 24 hours of bus traffic via Digital Urban
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January 2011
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d8taplex →
a prototype data visualization site (limited to the datasets from www.defra.gov.uk)
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40 Fascinating Blogs for the Ultimate Statistics... →
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“Did small children die? Is the world coming to an end? If not, you’re cool.”
– How to assess the gravity of what didn’t get done on your day’s to do list, according to me. (via jenbee)
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The Geopolitics of Where in the World is Carmen... →
These games serve the exact same function — and may even be better at getting the information to stick — and yet they’ve received no critical attention. We just don’t know the geopolitics of Carmen Sandiego, and in some sense, it’s really important to find out. What did the game include about history? More importantly, given the brevity of the information presented,...
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I sewed you a zoetrope
weareallangry: I made this sewn zoetrope for the “Dwelling on the Past” group show at Twilight Artist Collective in Seattle. Title: Persistence Medium: Cross stitch, Embroidery I don’t have a ton of photos so you’ll have to wait to see full details. (The outside has black-on-black details, for example.) Here’s a still shot that the fabulous Rosalie Gale took at the opening: The kind and...
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Per Square Mile: Life at different densities →
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Corruption, Secrecy And ‘Immapancy’ →
immapancy - insufficient geographical knowledge or lack of geographic knowledge
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Jellyfish Are the Dark Energy of the Oceans →
science: It’s relatively common in science for a specific effect to be assigned a conventional cause, only for further measurements and calculations to find that the conventional cause can’t account fully for the effect. Far from being cause for panic, this is really a fantastic opportunity to discover exciting new facts about the world. For example, the conventional explanation for why the...
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