Spirit animal: Wilson Phillips/Hold on for One More Day
Things we are not ready for.
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
—
George Orwell
I’m feeling quotey this weekend.
"
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"—
(Source: annielaughs)
I’ve had these two fortunes tacked up somewhere in my life for probably ten years.
“You will be successful in everything.”
“An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.”
The first I don’t actually believe, but it’s a nice little cheerleader when I’m feeling discouraged or lost. There’s a freedom in it — if something’s not working out, do something else, because you will be successful (or not) at that too.
The second I wholeheartedly (wholestomachly) believe, and those are in fact the words I live by every day. But it speaks to the more basic premise, a la Maslow, that we have to meet our basic needs (breathing, food, water, sex and sleep) before we can do much else.
I seem to have a lot of energy on Wednesdays, perhaps I’m just coming around on the week. In any case, here’s to Wednesday.
Really nice set of cartograms + accompanying explanation on the progress and location of OpenStreetMap contributions from around the world from the team at Mapbox.
Full post has OSM cartograms from 2006 to the present, over on the Mapbox blog. To make these, they took advantage of some free cartogram software from Mark Newman at the University of Michigan.
A cartogram is a map where some aspatial attribute (like time or number of OSM edits) is used instead of area or distance to draw a map, resulting in a distorted geometry that conveys the theme. One of the more famous applications of the cartogram technique is the Worldmapper project (also from Mark Newman).
Consider these cartograms from Worldmapper, where the top is countries of the world drawn according to total population, and the bottom is the same map, drawn by each country’s GDP.
Source: @Mapbox, worldmapper.org
This is the sauce, pxc.
(Source: mastardsauce)
