HB: Stalking Sunlight

Stalking Sunlight Bloggers

So far!

Nanette - Nanette twirly humanbeams dot com
Doc Logan -
melonhead99
Arcturus
James Benjamin (of The Mahatma X Files)

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Recent Comments

Orc on Whose Story: Pirates, Lies and Somalia:

Sadly, this is not surprising… First they f*** the country up, then use the period of anarchy to plunder valuables and dump nuclear waste, only to …

Nanette on Manatees Have Spines Of Steel:

Heh. Same here, pretty much. Happy New Year to you, sorry I missed whatever gathering there was in WN.

Melonhead99 on Manatees Have Spines Of Steel:

I’d doing sod all, so continuing where 2008 left off :)

Orc on Laurel and Hardy in Iraq:

On a somewhat similar note…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdISKKKzNTU

Vincent on Laurel and Hardy in Iraq:

Thank you! Very interesting .

Seeking light in a murky world

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Cool Tool Of The Day - Worldmapper

by Nanette

I’ve not been online again long enough to get rid of the "everything is strange and new… but still the same" feeling, but I have been doing some wandering around the tubes and have come across a few things to share. Like….

Via CNN -

Mapping out a new world order

A new book, The Atlas of the Real World, has redrawn the map giving vivid new insights and bringing economic, social and environmental data to life.

Not since the German meteorologist, Alfred Wegener, sketched out the first detailed theories of continental drift has the world appeared so misshapen, so otherworldly.

The 366 cartograms (statistical maps) which make up the book twist, shrink and distend countries and continents into all sorts of shapes and sizes.

Very interesting, very detailed and something one could spend some time on, investigating areas of interest and how they relate to the rest of the world. This and the other 365 maps can be found at Worldmapper.

I’ll have more later, when I can, as well as thoughts on the election and some of the aftermath.