atlas(t)

how to make map animations

this is actually "for travel documentaries," since that's what all the cool kids are making now, but anyone can use this to be random on the internet.

Useful!

dave matthews gps

somehow, this just works for me. Except the part at the end where Dave Matthews actually shows up.

after sesshu foster

sad America, who will hold your Entropy Hand?

I will hold your Entropy Hand with Old World Simulacrum nestling your Adolescent Limbs.

I will hold your Entropy Hand with Airport Plaque sacred on your Haunted Asphalt.

I will hold your Entropy Hand with Jeepney Triumph remaking your Guilty Garbage.

I will hold your Entropy Hand with Crisp Canal Map logging your Lovely Bleeds.

 

I will hold your Entropy Hand with New World Simulacrum, spice for your Sand Foundation.

I will hold your Entropy Hand with Dried Tears Windshield for your Mourning Horizons.

any given latitude

the best thing about this half-hour travel show from Fine Living channel is the title.

I was really hoping it would be something like Michael Palin's BBC series Pole to Pole, the best travel show ever, in which he picked a longitude and traveled from the North Pole to the South Pole entirely on the Earth's surface. (He had to cheat somewhere around the Sudan and jigger over to a slightly different latitude to go around a war, and again at the end by flying, because it was either that or wait six months at Capetown for the next boat to Antarctica.) I was hoping this show would pick a latitude each season and find interesting travel locations around that latitude. Or something.

Alas, the show has nothing to do with latitudes. It's just what the Germans would call a "stinknormale" travel show. If you like travel shows, this won't offend you. If you don't like travel shows, this will put you to sleep. I've tried watching two random episodes and couldn't get through an entire one, even though the total running time is 20 minutes. I don't like travel shows.

By the way: 20 minutes for what is presumably a 30 minute timeslot? That's crass. That's really crass.

Let's hope the next TV show is more interesting. This one gave me nuthin'.

u.s. bicycle route system

just a quickie:

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, working with The Adventure Cycling Association plus some other groups, have approved a plan for a nationwide network of bicycle routes.

State officials and bicycle enthusiasts are stitching together more than 50,000 miles of pedal-friendly pavement to form a vast network of bicycle routes connecting byways, cities and off-road trails in a system like the one created for cars and trucks more than half a century ago.

Working from a bewildering tangle of existing roads, planners mapped a web of corridors where the national bicycle system should go. They considered traffic volume, terrain, amenities and ways to link together lightly traveled byways, secondary roads, urban trails and already established transcontinental bicycle routes.

How. Cool. Is. That?

I must be getting old. I really wanna BIKE these routes. Who's with me?