Posts tagged “geography”

New Home, meet Old HomeOct 2, 2007

I mapped Trinidad against San Francisco and the Bay Area: they're roughly the same size, meaning my daily commute to Sunnyvale crosses most of my home country. Also, I'm now 243 miles closer to Trinidad than when I lived in London.

City by the BayMay 10, 2007

Seeing Orion over Valencia Street got me thinking about how San Francisco's geography shapes its culture. A dense, isolated city on the edge of a vast ocean and empty continent fills you with an urge to connect and build. Maybe that's why the internet happened here.

Okay, I just had to blog this. Entitled US Youth can't find Iraq, an article from CNN reveals the...Nov 20, 2002

Only 13% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map. More startlingly, 11% can't find the US either. Also: public autopsies, airplane homes, the end of antibiotics, and I really need to stop playing the Sims. Smallville is terrible but I can't stop watching it.