16 July 2003

Kevin Kelly Recomendo has good mapping tools etc Diagrammatic chart of world history: Displays with utmost intelligence 50 centuries of civilization, as revealed in the complex rise and fall of ancient powers. Not as linear as the (out of print) histomap (some interesting writing/maths histomaps here) Offroute: custom topographic maps world map wallpaper The Tiny Book of Tiny Houses: "Each very tiny house -- or should we say each shack and shed -- is photographed and sufficiently rendered in orthogonal view that one could construct it, or at least borrow designs from it [...] George Berhard Shaw designed [his] hut himself as a tiny office built on a central steel-pole frame so that it could be manually rotated to follow the arc of the sun" (something similar at Amazon.co.uk, Allconsuming) Ancient Civilisations: the best one-volume survey of earlier civilizations he's found (Amazon.co.uk, Allconsuming) and... Tools are the revolution: pdfs of pages from the Recomendo-inspired Whole Earth issue 2:31:48 PM     comments