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It’s probably not a good idea to try to be cute on the internet because this is what happens.

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We live in a new golden age of maps. Once the province of big, professional operations like Rand McNally and National Geographic, cartography is becoming a more democratic realm thanks to publicly available data and software tools. Thanks to online marketplaces and crowdfunding platforms, amateurs and hobbyists can now draw…

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“We must be insistently aware of how space can be made to hide consequences from us, how relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the apparently innocent spatiality of social life, how human geographies become filled with politics and ideology.”

Edward Soja, ‘Postmodern Geographies’  (via aidsnegligee)

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http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2013/05/message-to-graduate.html

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S(Infographics) — The Zhangistry

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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages

Angela Davis (via socialjusticewarriorgirl)

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Antoine Corbineau’s map of Italy illustrates typical Italian food products into the different regions of the country. 

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Berlin at night. Amazingly, I think the light bulbs still show the East/West division from orbit.

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squallicious friday pre-dawn!

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Rio de Janeiro

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Geological map of Singapore, as published in The Straits Times, 16/4/2013

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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

 E.B. White (via interruptions)

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Myriahedral maps showing the near contiguity of Earth’s continents and oceans (J. van Wijk)