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Sister Sarah
@sarahdoingthing
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Sep 3, 2015
Cartographic Compression http://ribbonfarm.com/2015/09/03/cartographic-compression/…
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Venkatesh Rao
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Did you ever read my 2007 post on maps? http://ribbonfarm.com/2007/07/20/harry-potter-and-the-cuaron-slam/… Also
@kneelingbus
post on Holey Plane http://ribbonfarm.com/2012/10/23/navigating-the-holey-plane/…
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Harry Potter and the Cuaron Slam
Occasionally engineering provides me with startling perspectives on art. This happened for me with the third book in the Harry Potter series, the Prisoner of Azkaban, generally acknowledged to be t…
10:50 PM · Sep 3, 2015
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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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Sep 3, 2015
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@sarahdoingthing
Hmm. We might have enough for a themed overview of posts about maps.
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Sister Sarah
@sarahdoingthing
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Sep 3, 2015
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there was something else of yours that was relevant but I can't think of the nouns involved
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Sister Sarah
@sarahdoingthing
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Sep 3, 2015
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BTW was just explaining to my 88-year-old grandmother what ribbonfarm is - "like a magazine but you don't have to dumb stuff down"
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