Monthly Archives: August 2007

American’s need maps…

I came across this on James Fee’s blog. Miss South Carolina is asked why she thinks it is that recent polls have shown a fifth of americans can’t locate the US on a world map. You just have to see her answer to believe it…

Marks for geographical (and just general) awareness: 0/10

Marks for asinine smiling: 8/10

Marks for managing to end on building a future for all our children irrespective of the question: 11/10

How Stonehenge Might Have Been Built

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An interesting approach to building Stonehenge from a Michigan construction worker called Wally T. Wallington. I have to say, the idea of rocking the huge stones back and forth seems an awful lot more plausible than eg using hot air balloons to lift the stones into place! 

Schmap!

Some of my photos are being used in the Schmap online guidebooks! Seems like a nice way of building a guidebook; use Flickr for the photos and WCities for the descriptive information and present it in an easy to use web map. Perhaps a bit of a cheeky way of avoiding paying for professional photos from one point of view but I quite like the messages telling me I’ve had a photo selected, warms the cockles of my heart and all that, plus the Schmap guides do give full credit and a link back to my Flickr account; I’m just glad people want to use my photos, that’s what they’re there for!
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