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more about #maps more comments → i'm a bottle: I see that the Meth Belt is being thin and productive. more » Helio: I'd say the ground zero of the Ground Zero would be Mississippi. That state is screwed. more » Unsolicited Advice: I've seen some science stating that obese people are discriminated against in the hiring process. I wonder if that's really the cause-effect relation... more » jose.castillo: A veteran photographer at the Austin, TX bureau was also let go; didn't see him on the map. [www.texastribune.org] more » The Real JR: Why did Constantinople get the works? more » daisy14755: Thank you, Gawker, for doing more than most other media outlets to bring home the hideous financial reality that "everything is FUBAR" (a World War 2 ... more » the_marquee_de_lafayette: Note also that the Spring Lounge's sale (aka Happy Hour) continues unabated. No word on whether business might actually be up. It's just a shame tha... more » Mediahohoho: Bluegrass Brunch at Nolita House, 47 East Houston, is still booming every Sunday. #recessionomics more » Niko Bellic: So, Cafe Colonial is having a sale? #recessionomics more » ShanghaiLil: I would give up all of my retirement savings to watch Sarah Palin try this. OK, that currently amounts to something like $0.43, but still, I'd like t... more » Bos'un's Mate: Letterman should host Franken and Fred Armisen back-to-back. [www.hulu.com] more » The Recession Is Over: This is why Franken could never win a presidential run. He's totally cut in half the size of both Florida and California. If they take that as a sli... more » vampirebris: Stupid trick?More like awesome parlor trick. I think the map drawing is pretty impressive, but I'm also that a**hole who likes to juggle for people, ... more » meechybee: I bet Rush couldn't do it. more » blix: I'm holding out for a balloon sculpture of Nathan Hale. more » -
#synchronicity
Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
Last week, we highlighted a scary county-by-county map that a commenter posted to #tips showing metastasizing unemployment growth. Today, it occurred to us that we'd seen a graphic like that somewhere before: A CDC map of obesity by county. More » -
#layoffs
The AP Layoffs, From Bismarck to Beijing
We've been updating our AP Layoffs List for three days with tips about layoffs in AP bureaus around the world. Here, we've organized and mapped them for you. View the national and global media carnage, below. More » -
#design
New York 'Map Cuts' Aren't for Traveling, But Sure Are Purdy
I can't imagine how long it took to cut out these extremely detailed maps of NYC. By removing the bustle of street names, traffic flows and landmarks, nothing is left but the city's organizational beauty. [Gizmodo] -
#economicindicator
The Recession Map of NoLIta: Updated
In February, we noted the sad decline of the once-posh, boutique-strewn neighborhood of NoLIta, where Gawker HQ is located. We sent the interns back to the streets and have a new report: more sales, more closing, and only some redemption. More » -
#cartography
Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
Al Franken does not tell jokes now that he's a serious, scholarly U.S. Senator. But there is one bit of his routine that he won't retire: his old party trick of drawing a map of the United States from memory. More » -
#thingsweactuallylike
Magic Manhattan Maps
This is technically called a "horizonless projection in Manhattan" but it's basically a crazy bendy map of everything from 34th street down. Cool. [Here&There. Click to enlarge] -
#culture
Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
If there's anyone who grasps the secrets of cultural "buzz," it's Spatial Information experts employed in academia. There's a new "Geography of Buzz" map that scientifically proves that "buzz" is centered...where events are held. More » -
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#maps
Making New York's Subway Look Like London's
New York's subway map is a monstrosity, the worst of all possible graphical worlds, neither visually legible nor geographically accurate. For his 1972 map of the system, Massimo Vignelli at least made a clear choice: he sacrificed scale to space out the stations and the lines and present a diagram that commuters could at least read, something along the lines of London's famous tube map. Vignelli has been commissioned to update his long-lost design—for Men's Vogue, of all places, which displays the full map. (Writes Jonathan: "I'm going to print it out and then make a show of obsessively checking it on the train. People will think I'm a tourist. Then they will see it, and know I'm a time traveler.")
