…well, broadly. It’s Passover, and therefore time to link to my favourite ever Passover story, from Nik.
Archive for April 22nd, 2008
Talking of which
April 22, 2008More caps
April 22, 2008There is, of course, a long tradition of unnecessary capitalisation. A bus just drove past with an advert on the side, and the advert said:
JESUS said: When the Son of Man comes, will He find Faith on the Earth?
I understand why everything is capped up, but it makes it very difficult to read.
More maps
April 22, 2008Strange Maps has a “news map” of the US today, with the size of the states adjusted according to how many news wire stories, from various sources, originated in each of them over a four-year period. Unstartlingly, Washington, New York and California are the three biggest news generators, and all three are vastly oversized in the map, although of course California is just really big, so it doesn’t increase as dramatically as the other two. I’ve never been to California, but I’d like to think that everything about it is just really big.
They link to an article in Science News which talks more generally about the art (or science, or both) of representing more than simple geographical facts using maps. It’s interesting, if you have time to read it.
All of which reminded me of that picture of the earth at night which is still one of the best things I’ve ever found on the internet. Apart from being – well, pretty, it gets more interesting the more you look at it. My favourite things about it are:
- How bright all the big cities are, but especially Paris and Tokyo
- How defined the Nile is – it looks like it’s been drawn on in a single brush stroke
- How empty Australia is
- The fact that North Korea is so dark that South Korea looks like an island. That one’s a bit terrifying, for various reasons, but it’s still interesting.
Selhurst Park
April 22, 2008Good news: apparently Simon Jordan has secured the lease on Selhurst Park for another 25 years.
Bad news: he still wants to move the club elsewhere, according to this article from the BBC:
“I’d like to see Palace move away from Selhurst Park, I’d like to stay in the Borough and I’d like us to move to a stadium which is more befitting of the ambitions we have for the club.”
In which “Borough”, I wonder? I guess he means Croydon, since that’s where they are now. I’d like to see them move back to Crystal Palace proper, although there’s not an obvious spot, unless they pull down the athletics stadium and start again.
I’d also like to see fewer random capitalisations, beginning with that “B”.
