liveonearth: (curiosity and cat)
This is very interesting for anyone interested in regional accents. Answer ten or so questions about your words for things, and it will tell you where it thinks you come from. It had a hard time localizing me though I attempted to use my childhood words for things, but some people it totally pegs. My language is most different from the Great Lakes area, which makes sense because I've never been there.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?
liveonearth: (Donkey)
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
--Ambrose Bierce
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than knowledge.
--Charles Darwin





Imagine being lost in the wilderness with a group of 10. Who is the most confident about which way you should go? Always an interesting test.)

(Didn't mean to but both knowledge and confidence tags just created. Not sure I will ever stop creating new tags, sorry. Follow a parallel tag to track the idea farther back. This journal is a form of mind map.)
liveonearth: (fantasy river)
The Map is not the Territory.
—Alfred Korzybski
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National Geographic won the 2010 Malofiej--the top award for their map. The rivers are scaled by annual discharge, so you can get a good sense of where the boating might be.
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http://www.measureofamerica.org/maps/

Interactive map where you can see health indices, income, education, political and religion stats for all the states. Very interesting, and very useful for my current project of sorting out where I want to set up.
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From the LA times. Definitely check out the filters.

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