Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1jtr4wjbH1qz4yloo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Cable & Wireless Giant Circle Map of 1945, photographed by <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/20009494648/for-blech">iamdanw</a>.</p> <p>There’s a <a href="http://blog.refractal.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/giantcirclemap.jpg">neater version</a> at “<a href="http://blog.refractal.org/2008/10/23/along-what-dimension-is-cyberspace/">Along What Dimension Is Cyberspace</a>”, a post on what looks at a quick glance to be the fascinating (if slightly neglected) <a href="http://blog.refractal.org/">refractal</a> site. (Again, thanks to Dan W for the pointer.)</p> <p>It’s interesting comparing this decorative, slightly off-centred polar azimuthal map to the <a href="http://notes.husk.org/post/20009217267/pan-am-world-routes">Pan Am route map</a>, made just twenty years later, that I posted earlier. For example, the Empire and Dominions (as they then were) are shown in red, whereas Pan Am leaves the entire world off-white, and there’s far more labelling. Of course, both have the handy property of showing great circles (other than the Equator) as straight lines. </p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20012404863http://notes.husk.org/post/20012404863Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:38:00 +0100azimuthal projectioncable &amp; wirelesscablesimagemapreblogtelecommunications1940ssubmarine cablebritainbritain the world centre<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kofl87LdI41qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.vads.ac.uk/x-large.php?uid=92511&sos=1">Please pack very carefully</a> - a Tom Eckersly advert for the GPO at the <a href="http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/">VADS online archive</a> of <a href="http://www.vads.ac.uk/results.php?cmd=advsearch&words=eckersley+archive&field=all&oper=or&words2=&field2=all&mode=boolean&submit=search&TEC=1">his work.</a></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/163646218http://notes.husk.org/post/163646218Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:40:54 +0100imagetom eckersleycatgpo1940sdesign<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkp2axvquoFCu7DtSo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:London_,_Kodachrome_by_Chalmers_Butterfield_edit.jpg">London in Kodachrome</a> from Wikipedia.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/128771234http://notes.husk.org/post/128771234Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:14:27 +0100imagelondonpiccadilly circus1940skodachrome