(Source: oxu)
January 31, 2012
January 30, 2012
January 30, 2012
January 30, 2012
Missouri has never looked so good … Dave Imus’ map of the United States recently won the “Best of Show” at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society.
Slate magazine calls Imus’ cartographic work of art, “The Greatest Paper Map Of The United States You’ll Ever See.”
“What I did different than anybody else who ever made a map of the United States was that I brought into focus… the basic geography,” Imus told Here & Now’s Robin Young. “People that read this map or look at it on the wall can understand and appreciate more deeply the character of the United States… the lay of the land.”
(Image: A map of Missouri. Courtesy Dave Imus, Imus Geographics.)
(via npr)
January 29, 2012
I’m getting that itch to move again, and this time I’m thinking L.A. because I don’t really know anyone there except for my Mother’s cousin who’s a boom operator for b-horror movies, and I’m sick of being cold and I’ve never lived on the West Coast, and I want to work here.
I’ve got at least until 2013 to think about it. Ten to one though, if I ever move anywhere again it will be back to the Midwest or the South, though.
January 29, 2012
January 29, 2012
nypl:
Here’s a fun fact for you to appreciate on a leisurely Sunday… NYPL’s Ottendorfer Branch opened in 1884 as New York City’s first free public library. The landmark library is one of the oldest in the system.
January 27, 2012
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Copyright made big headlines last week. File-sharing site Megaupload was shut down following a dramatic FBI raid. The Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) generated widespread web protests, resulting in a postponement of both bills. And the Supreme Court upheld a decision to restore copyright to works that previously had been part of the public domain - like Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf.” We’ll break down these convoluted stories with our go-to copyright expert, intellectual property lawyer Jon Reichman.
