for no real reason

It is a little strange this post, I’ll freely admit it.

Today has been a deeply interesting day, I’ve had my first exposure to the mac, I’ve been introduced to a hundred new things to do with a computer, my head is buzzing with ideas and I need an extra bunch of hours in the day to get all of them done.

So today I’m blogging, on well, none of that.

After a long time staring at a computer this afternoon, I needed a lie down and went to bug my housemate because he has better stereo in his room than I do. He is obsessed with maps, loves them, really truly loves them. I’ve never seen anyone derive as much pleasure from an A to Z as this gentleman.

So much so he subscribes to the blog of strange maps. The one he was looking at today was the Amnesty International map of war. I liked the look of it very much so made him email me the link. further inspection was quite impressive, there’s a wealth of information associated with each map, for the one I’ve mentioned there is a heap of interesting quotes and statements and this would be a great start for a discussion….

While this doesn’t obviously link to science there’s some maps in there that would, in the very least, kick start a conversation or give an interesting perspective. You’ll Never Moonwalk Alone for example. I think with a bit of exploring there might be something in there for a lot of subjects.

In conjuction with that I’m also adding a link to a site I’ve been using recently for display work called Block Posters. It’s a simple little tool where you upload a photo (up to 1 megabyte) choose how big you want it (four landscape pieces of A4 wide or two pieces of portrait A4 wide or however large you need for however big a space you have to fill really) and it outputs it as a paneled poster in PDF that you put together like a jigsaw.

I might make my housemate a giant map. I think he’ll like that.

I’m not sure if that’s the best way to enlarge posters like that, so if you know of a slicker technique, please do tell me!

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