a best of 2013 list (kind of): the most photographed places on earth according to flickr; most predictably western in its orientation of course, this collection
me news
P for R
as reported in various news media ysterday: the russian central bank has finally settled on a symbol for the ‘rouble’; to exsist alongside the euro, dollar yen & pound symbols… it seems odd that they didn’t already have one to my mind
global forest change
i spotted this via various news media this weekend: global deforestation collected in one complete and slightly worrying map
long shadows
i am not usually tempted to partake in the ‘is iOS7 ugly?’ discussion, as i find it wholly uninteresting and irrelevant
however this proposal for a long shadow version does appeal to me, it indeed seems to make it more user-friendly and easy to decipher somehow… and yes perhaps a little ‘less ugly’
up in arms
…there’s never been an America, but rather several Americas—each a distinct nation. There are eleven nations today. Each looks at violence, as well as everything else, in its own way…
a different take on the standard map of the USA