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It Must Be True – The Internet Says So

July 15, 2010 | Comment

All I did was plug in text from this post and this post, and it was definitively confirmed…

I write like
James Joyce

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Hey, Dr. Karl Hufbauer – you and your C+ dismissal of my Freshman Billy Budd paper can kiss my baby tuckoo!

What can I say? I try to keep C&B more on the Dubliners/Portrait of the Artist end of things than going all Ulysses or Finnegan’s Wake up in here. Read the rest of this entry »


Outside The Map Room

March 21, 2010 | Permalink

I’ve always dug geography and considered myself a map nerd. It seems, however, that one of the charter members of the C&B blogroll has proven me wrong. If I were a real map nerd, I guess I would care about the kind of stuff most often posted at The Map Room these days — stuff like the conflation of neogeography with GIS, or the upcoming BBC4 radio series On the Map. I’ll admit that I got a slight kick out of the news that there are now global maps of the Moon and Mars available as apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, albeit a sarcastic one (I just know that the next time I’m on Mars and can’t find an ATM, I’m going to kick myself for not having an iPhone).

I had to scroll fairly far down the front page to find the kind of thing I used to see a lot more of at The Map Room: a link to this delightful set of map art by illustrator Christoph Niemann at his New York Times blog. As a cinephile, I suppose it’s natural that this one is my favorite:
casablanca

Thus it has come to pass that The Map Room must go without the torrential stream of traffic that surely resulted from its presence on my blogroll. I’m pretty sure he’ll be fine. To be clear, I have nothing at all against The Map Room — I’m just, as they say, not feelin’ it anymore.

As for the remainder of my “Niches” blogroll section, websurfers with or without a cartographic bent should find plenty of interest at the whimsical, wonderful, web-based world of Strange Maps. For example, check out this 1940 map by an Irish satirist endeavoring to make his country look maximally unappealing to possible Nazi invaders.

Or, if you’re both a history geek and a map geek (like me), you can frolic away the hours at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection site. Read the rest of this entry »