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Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Good as (Acapulco) Gold
Over on Andrew Sullivan's blog, they're comparing the price of marijuana to the price of gold. Fun stuff, including:
Most useful, this handy chart compares the price of weed across the continental U.S.:
Once again, as Jim Morrison once said, "The West is the best."
And Canada looks pretty green.
Pot retails for about $300 an ounce IN CALIFORNIA. West Coast pot (I'm from Eugene, Oregon - whaddup!) is famous throughout not just the US but the world. If I take an ounce of medical grade pot, put it in my trunk, and drive it to Texas or the East Coast, I could charge $500 or $600 for the ounce and sell it in hours.
Most useful, this handy chart compares the price of weed across the continental U.S.:
Once again, as Jim Morrison once said, "The West is the best."
And Canada looks pretty green.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Map Crazy
Here's one for graphical information/mapping fetishists, like me, Strange Maps.
The one on the top as I post this is, "131 - US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs."
I'm also a big fan of the terrifying and Inconvenient "117 - Europe’s Climate in 2071" as well as the revelatory "124 - Jesus In India: A Road Map of His Lost Years."
Hard to top the hand drawn "98 - ‘On the Road’ Map: Kerouac Traces His Trip" (hitchhiking back and forth across America in those halcyon post-war years of 1947-48) but maybe Munchkinland and its neighbors will do the trick for you with "69 - Not Kansas, But Just As Rectangular: The Land of Oz."
There's a zoo hidden in the London Underground map ("119 - All Elephant and No Castle: a Secret Bestiary of the London Tube Map") and a woman who's certainly more into maps than you or I ("126 - Hannover On Her Mind - and On Her Back"). And illuminating information, like why our interstate highway numbering system actually works ("75 - A Diagram of the Eisenhower Interstate System"), as well as why America cannot be a world empire in simple population terms ("96 - A Cartogram of the World’s Population"), the latter of which is also an argument for open border immigration -- if we want to kick anybody's ass.
As some parting cartography, here's two representations of where Nettertainment hails from daily.
One is more virtual although not necessarily more virtuous: "118 - Online Communities Map (Not For Navigation)." We're somewhere in the Southwest corner, map detail not available.
The other...well...would anyone really be surprised?
The one on the top as I post this is, "131 - US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs."
I'm also a big fan of the terrifying and Inconvenient "117 - Europe’s Climate in 2071" as well as the revelatory "124 - Jesus In India: A Road Map of His Lost Years."
Hard to top the hand drawn "98 - ‘On the Road’ Map: Kerouac Traces His Trip" (hitchhiking back and forth across America in those halcyon post-war years of 1947-48) but maybe Munchkinland and its neighbors will do the trick for you with "69 - Not Kansas, But Just As Rectangular: The Land of Oz."
There's a zoo hidden in the London Underground map ("119 - All Elephant and No Castle: a Secret Bestiary of the London Tube Map") and a woman who's certainly more into maps than you or I ("126 - Hannover On Her Mind - and On Her Back"). And illuminating information, like why our interstate highway numbering system actually works ("75 - A Diagram of the Eisenhower Interstate System"), as well as why America cannot be a world empire in simple population terms ("96 - A Cartogram of the World’s Population"), the latter of which is also an argument for open border immigration -- if we want to kick anybody's ass.
As some parting cartography, here's two representations of where Nettertainment hails from daily.
One is more virtual although not necessarily more virtuous: "118 - Online Communities Map (Not For Navigation)." We're somewhere in the Southwest corner, map detail not available.
The other...well...would anyone really be surprised?
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