Connoisseurs of maps and fans of agricultural landscape systems will love this presentation of the 1635 Laxton Open Field Survey Map at the consistently wonderful BibliOdyssey. There’s more and more of this sort of geographical mashuppery, a Good Thing.
links for 2007-12-08
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Developer’s Guide – and it really works! via http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/12/google_chart_api.html
Bagpipes
It being winter, one has time for Kurt Gottschalk’s A Field Guide to Staying Inside: Bagpipes, from WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. Not everything here will be to your taste, but examples like Birchville Cat Motel’s “Piss Perfume Overkill” will give the cobwebs in your speakers a good airing. And the Alfred Hitchcock quote at the beginning is worth the price of admission.
links for 2007-12-07
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from TED Talks… recursion amok
Humbead’s Musicians
Take a look at this table of Musicians, quarried from the Population list that surrounds Humbead’s Revised Map of the World. I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with these bits of data in the last few days, and continue to consider how next to proceed in unpacking the Significance of the Map.
Thrill Is Gone
nice to stumble upon this again:
The Kingdom
information aesthetics points to this 4-minute opening sequence from The Kingdom, an interesting primer:
I haven’t been this interested in math in years
…as I am in watching this. Sorta the same effect as reading Gleik’s Chaos, 20 years ago:
links for 2007-12-06
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brilliant
Righteous fiddling
and pretty fine guitar backup too: