Europa Polyglotta, a cool map from 1730, indicating the languages spoken in Europe and full of typographic goodness.
Month: January 2008
The best voting technology
The best voting technology may be no technology at all, an old Cringely article featuring our glorious Canadian system: pencil and paper.
Can super glue heal wounds?
Can super glue heal wounds?, a NYT article with a great accompanying graphic.
Music is essentially free
Wired sits down with Trent Reznor. “And so, a couple years ago I kind of realized that music essentially is free now. I’d prefer if it wasn’t. But it is. And being on the other side of that argument is a losing battle.”
The Nerd Handbook
The Nerd Handbook, required reading for people in relationships with nerds.
Nick Hornby interviews David Simon
My Year in Cities, 2007
Here’s a roughly chronological list of the places that I visited last year. It was by the most well-travelled year of my life, living abroad and exploring Europe by rail probably didn’t hurt.
- Kingston, ON, Canada
- Brockville, ON, Canada*
- London, England*
- Reading, England*
- Rome, Italy*
- Florence, Italy
- Bristol, England*
- Dublin, Ireland
- Amsterdam, Netherlands*
- Münster, Germany
- Trier, Germany
- Mainz, Germany
- Bad Homburg, Germany
- Berlin, Germany
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Vienna, Austria
- Barcelona, Spain
- Geneva, Switzerland*
- Grenoble, France
- Brussels, Belgium
- Bruges, Belgium
- Toronto, ON, Canada*
- Mississauga, ON, Canada*
- Oxford, England
One or more nights were spent in each of the cities listed. Places with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive nights. The majority of my time was divided between London and Reading, where Alanah and I were studying respectively. There were also a number of other places that I visited on day trips, including: Ottawa, Winchester, Salisbury, Bray and Ypres. The post idea was gratuitously stolen from kottke.
And don’t forget
“And don’t forget to make some art.” From Neil Gaiman’s new year’s message