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October 29, 2007
Monday Links
- The New Yorker lovefest continues: Emdashes is compiling a list of the New Yorker articles that have appeared in Houghton Mifflin's annual Best American Essays series. It's a perfect guide for dipping into your Complete New Yorker set. Update: Emdashes has also done a "short stories" version of the list.
- My cousin Mitch produces a survey of state quarters. Arkansas: thumbs down. Connecticut: thumbs up!
- The Regret the Error blog (which tracks all sorts of funny newspaper corrections) has produced a book with a serious sounding subtitle.
- I would love to get my hands on Transit Maps of the World, an encyclopedic book that's already been noted by Boing Boing and kottke.
- C. Max Magee @ 7:23 PM ~
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After seeing Transit Maps of the World mentioned here, I got really excited about it and decided to pick it up at my local bookstore. I am a big fan of Ed Tufte's books and was hoping this would be similar.
Also, for nostalgia's sake, I wanted to feast my eyes on Mumbai's transit maps. I am sorry to report that the book can hardly be called Transit Maps of the WORLD.
Unless I missed seeing it because I flipped too fast, important ones such as Mumbai's, which has the highest passenger density of any urban railway system in the world, are not included.
In a notoriously chaotic city, Mumbai's transit works so smoothly commuters set their watches to it.
I was disappointed. As compensation, I came home and re-read my Tufte books instead.
I liked the premise of the book and the maps included were a fun geography lesson. I just think the title is a bit too grandiose.
Also, for nostalgia's sake, I wanted to feast my eyes on Mumbai's transit maps. I am sorry to report that the book can hardly be called Transit Maps of the WORLD.
Unless I missed seeing it because I flipped too fast, important ones such as Mumbai's, which has the highest passenger density of any urban railway system in the world, are not included.
In a notoriously chaotic city, Mumbai's transit works so smoothly commuters set their watches to it.
I was disappointed. As compensation, I came home and re-read my Tufte books instead.
I liked the premise of the book and the maps included were a fun geography lesson. I just think the title is a bit too grandiose.
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Poornima @ November 05, 2007 7:11 PM
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