I think this is beautiful and fascinating — it overlays population, energy and materials usage heat maps over GoogleEarth maps of cities. It’s interactive so you can choose the city and the information you want. (Via guardian.co.uk)
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smashey family road trip 2010
We’re going old-school — throwing the kids in the back and driving across the country to see the wonders of these United States. Our basic vacation requirements are: cool weather, parks away from the crowds, and mountains and/or the ocean. So, here we go — Olympic National Park and Glacier National Park in two weeks. Kudos to my wife, Aimee, who arranged for amazing places for us to stay near ONP and GNP. She has a knack for finding us the coolest places. We’ll be off dark and early Friday morning. I suspect I’ll be the only conscious (semi) being in the expedition until about Kansas City.
leg 1: Three days to Seattle
leg 2: Seattle to Kalaloch Cabins on the Pacific Ocean. We’ll spend five days in the rainforest and on the incredible rocky beaches of nearby Olympic National Park. It’s also Sasquatch and vampire country.
leg 3: ONP to Glacier N.P. (Whitefish, MT) for four days. There were no (zero!) rooms to be had in the park — it’s the 100th anniversary for Glacier this year. Ahh, mountains.
leg 4 (and the last): GNP to Bolivar
really getting away from it all
This is a really great map of the most remote areas of the Earth. The winner–a place on the Tibetan plateau that is 3 weeks travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more. The map shows more remote areas in darker, redder shades.
Check out the link (below) for more.
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm id=672&index=672&domain=
fair territory
On one of my family’s sojourns to Chicago, I began wondering, where exactly was the boundary between Cardinal Nation and the pathetic domain of the hapless Cubs? Here is the answer to that and all the other boundary disputes in the baseball world. Very nice.
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