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Tag Archives: Notes and nonsense
The lockdown flag
The KABOOM found!
Long has Marvin lamented, “There was a supposed to be an Earth-shattering “Kaboom!”.
The AuthaGraph
The problem of projecting the Earth’s spherical surface onto a flat page has vexed cartographers for centuries. Here’s one brilliant solution, the AuthaGraph, designed by Hajime Narukawa. This rectangular world map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining areas proportions and unfolding it to be a rectangle. The world map can be tiled in any direction without visible seams.
Today’s the day
Perhaps this will do the job
Is it today?
I need the complete set of these.
Take our leader
Falling leaves
Sweaty, noisy, crowds are rubbish
The news media report that Randwick City Council has banned alcohol consumption in its beachfront parks, especially Coogee, for the rest of summer after Christmas crowds left a disgusting mass of garbage. Fair enough. But what I totally fail to understand is why anyone, drunk or sober, would want to be part of a sweaty, noisy, crowd on a hot summer day … let alone on Christmas Day.