What the font.

Google books results for the (apparently) authoritative atlas of tree distributions

How to do a design project for a city you don't want to visit: just acknowledge that you're doing it for Google Earth, and lay some transparencies on screenshots. Laziness is godliness.

Subway time mapping with color overlays. Very well done.

"Autumn 1944, and London was under attack from space. Hitler's 'vengeance' rocket, the V-2, was the world's first ballistic missile, and the first man-made object to make a sub-orbital spaceflight. Over 1400 were launched at Britain, with more than 500 striking London. The 13 tonne rocket impacted at over 3000 miles per hour. There was no warning; the missile descended faster than the speed of sound and survivors would only hear the approach and sonic booms after the blast." For reference the next time you read Gravity's Rainbow.

frickin sweet google map detournments.

1917 history of Newark NJ

The new, sleeker boundaries of the District of Columbia, as defined in H. R. 1858, District of Columbia-Maryland Reunion Act, which will not be passed.

google maps bug: type in Florida, Michigan, Maryland or Hawaii, and you get points outside of the state. Gmaps looks for the centroid, but it's outside of those convex shapes

Farthest point in lower 48 from an interstate. (appx 225 miles) (Lake Superior)

wow, this seems easier than phplot

Paul Rudolph has (at least) two buildings in downtown Boston. Who knew? note: archinform's g.map feature is pretty good.

Supporters of Ferdinand VII cheered 'Long live the chains!' when he was restored to the throne in 1814 (with wrists crossed, according to Milos Forman). (cf in The Phantom of Liberty)

Superimpose outlines of various geographies on the world map.

Google Easrth frontend for census data. Looks amazing, I'll probably spend all day tomorrow playing with it. thanks 18b!

extremely frightening satellite photo. coworker said 'gives me bad feelings.'

We demand an architecture of crystals! Walter Netsch's 'field theory' in action at UIC.

book of Elizabethan criminal slang

Best speculative science fiction from the 1880s ever. Well worth the read.

Midway point of Richard Florida's booming 'ChiPitts' region/corridor. Right off I-80/90. I heard there's a pretty good thrift store here!

go here for an easy hand-out

As in Cheap Fast and. Full text of a techno-utopian potboiler by fmr exec ed of Wired. Notable bc I read a chapter in the library 10 years ago, forgot the title, then found it again by googling 5 common words.

knock-off designer bags with FAKE spray painted on in **gold** spraypaint. "As founder Bea Correa puts it, “'Fake’ has become one of the defining keywords of the current age.'” WTF WTF WTF

kurt cobain suicide note b/w google ads. thnx to cory a.

bucky fuller's biosphere dome. never realized it was transparent.

Google maps to make the earth a sandwich...

before & after w/ google earth

Currently, Google doesn't support searches in which an asterisk indicates a fraction or extension of a word: [ flower * classes ] will not match "flowerful classes."

my sweatshirt (FOOL) and kio's buddy icon (PARANOIAC) had a party, and you weren't invited.

via angermann

ignore previous. "myspace is the new geocities" lives in the myspace blog entry from 2004-09-21. "god damnit stop putting songs in your profiles"

#2 result for "Myspace is the new geocities" google search. ( livejournal entry written 2006-02-06). #1 result is a myspace page that doesn't include phrase anymore

During the first half of the 1900s, the Horseshoe Curve was considered, along with the Panama Canal, the Empire State Building, and the Bay Bridge at San Francisco, one of the engineering "Wonders of the World."

toggle between Map and Satellite views to see the part of DE that google refuses to recognize!

a new wellspring for satirical collages. dibs!

mashing flickr and gmaps

now that it's fashionable to hate on google

1964 world's fair

pretty snappy