“When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ‘sounds like Chinese’. I’ve been told the Korean equivalent is ‘sounds like Hebrew’…
“For the past three years, Frank Jacobs’s blog Strange Maps has been an increasingly wonderful trove of creative cartography. All of the works cataloged in Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities find a unique way to tweak the generic map…Jacobs’s book is filled with cartographic exercises that range from the historical, like a map of Thomas Jefferson’s proposal for naming new states in the Northwest territories, to the scientific, like a pie chart of which countries’ coastlines offer direct access to Antarctica. And then there are the jokes, like the oft-forwarded map of North America divided between the United States of Canada in the north and Jesusland in the south.”
Santoro: Signorini vede il video il 6 Ottobre e Berlusconi chiama Marrazzo il 19? Io, voglio capire cosa e’ successo in quelle due settimane. Storace: se lo sarà gustato.
