Most common location of missed-connections in Rhode Island? Parking lots(via @jrogers202)
And the highest paid public employee in your state is…
I think it’s Just Adorable that Vermont’s highest-paid public employee is a hockey coach.
WORTH THE WAIT Time magazine, NASA and the US Geological Survey have collaborated on something truly awesome, sifting through trillions of LANDSAT satellite images, culled from the past 30 years, to create “the world’s first multi-decade animated timelapse of the Earth.” Click on the image for the complete series; you will be blown away.
(via spramped)
In case you needed a geography refresher, Czech Republic is not Chechnya.
In related news, Iran is not Iraq, and India, Indonesia, and the Federated States of Micronesia are all different, too.
(via Boston Marathon bombing: Czech Republic ambassador releases statement on Chechnya confusion.)
xkcd #1196 - Subways of North America
I love maps. xkcd nails it, as always.
The hover text?
About one in three North American subway stops are in NYC.
11 Essential Roadtrip Routes - file for later…
(via vengeanceandfrogurt:fishy:btothed)
(Source: calamresortsblog.com, via mimesandpunishment)
One Million Photos Taken From the International Space Station
Nate Bergey has created several data visualizations using 1,129,177 photos taken from the International Space Station. Since most images from the ISS are of land masses, Bergey found that plotting all of the images creates a fuzzy map of the world.
It would be great if Google kept the treasure map functionality on Google Maps, even after April Fools is over.
Metro, re-imagined as a Super Mario landscape. Twenty points to anyone sending us pictures of themselves doing Super Mario cosplay on the Metro.
Automatic Mario reblog for the DC folks.
(h/t Mattias)
Ever wonder what Street View looks like atop a mountain?
Well, now you know - the above views are from 22,000 feet atop the Aconcagua summit in Argentina, the highest point yet documented via Google’s Street View. As part of the company’s efforts to add to its maps offerings, it recently scoped out ranges such as Aconcagua, Everest and Kilimanjaro.
Photos: Google Street View
All the countries that share just one border with another country: (via 38 Maps You Never Knew You Needed)
Geography of Craigslist Missed Connections
Unclear whether people in Massachusetts are having missed connections on the T, or actually at Subway restaurants.
Also, Indiana?
(Psychology Today, via very small array » So I guess this is on the internet now)
Satellites are powerful tools. They beam our TV signals, phone calls and data around the planet. They help us spy, they track storms, they power the GPS signals in our cars and on our phones. But they also send back striking, totally disarming images of planet Earth.
This set of images is all about showing off the “beauty of the Earth,” says Lawrence Friedl, the director of NASA’s Applied Sciences Program and the editor of a project called Earth As Art.“We want people to look at these images and say, ‘How did nature do that?’ “
The project, which NASA has released in iPad and book form, spans the world, from cold peaks to desolate deserts to ocean islands. But these aren’t your typical snapshots.
Earth As Art: ‘How Did Nature Do That?’
Photo Credit: NASA
(via nprfreshair)
