clock … watching time, the only true currency

I’ve never heard of Alex Reisner before today. My gratitude to Adam Kalsey for the link. I just now realized that Reisner’s post is from March of 2006, almost 2 years ago. But this is timeless, not timely.
What a marvelous, brief examination of history and its forces: Baseball Geography and Transportation. Effectively annotated with dated [...]

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After fighting allergies during the last two beautiful days in San Francisco, it’s time to clean out the inbox from the last few weeks.

The Daily Mail reminds us all of Worldmapper, which tries to use maps to tell different truths. All maps distort reality. These maps do it deliberately, which makes them more honest than [...]

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I’d like a clean inbox to start next week, so it’s time to pull out the tidbits which raised themselves up above the del.icio.us level of interest, and into the “I should check this out” tier. Of course, I really haven’t given these much attention, but if I put them up here, at least my [...]

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These aren’t new, but it is Saturday, and I’m sick of staring at them in my inbox.
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I thought all The Economist content was invisible on the web, but not this September 7, 2006 opinion piece, “Welcome aboard,” which asks “In-flight announcements are not entirely truthful. What might an honest one sound like?” An honest one [...]

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In reading Mark Hurst’s interview with Katy Börner of Indiana University, I learned for the first time about Places & Spaces. This exhibit is about maps, and visualization, and it’s going to be at the New York Public Library for much of the summer. On my list to visit if I get the chance.

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GETTING THERE The science of driving directions by Nick Paumgarten earned an immediate printing, because (a) it’s 10 pages long in the printer-friendly version and I can’t sit in this chair and stare at this screen any longer and (b) it’s about maps and (c) it’s The New Yorker, whose deep dives are always worth [...]

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Tuesday was not my best day.
I got off to a bad start. Just down the hill (east) of the intersection of Fulton and Pierce, alongside Alamo Square (see for yourself), I was given my first ticket for a moving violation.
On a bicycle.
Yes, my ticket says, for make and vehicle, “Specialized Rockhopper, Red.” A stop sign [...]

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Twenty-two Undersea cable maps, ranging from 1858-1992. Reminds me of Neal Stephenson’s Wired Magazine article from December 1996 “Mother Earth Mother Board,” about laying the cables. [Via The Map Room]
I wonder how redundant all these cables are now, both in terms of multiple cables per route and wireless/satellite alternatives. Seems like an economic monopoly — [...]

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Cleaning out the Safari bookmarks from the past year or so, and dumping those worth keeping into my del.icio.us account. Along the way, I came across SFPD CrimeMAPS. This page describes the San Francisco Police Department’s CrimeMaps service, where you can view crime data mapped against the city. I think this was originally rolled out [...]

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Few things more useful in the world of general knowledge than an accurate representation of the world: a globe. Of course, every map is out of date shortly after it’s printed, but the physical form of a globe certainly helps reinforce the reality, even if the labels and colors and lines move over time.
I only [...]

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