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EarthCam

EarthCam a is a fantastic source of live feeds from a network of remote video cameras around the world. The company does a lot more than just provide live video feeds all day. But it’s fun checking out the some of the cameras.

Here is the Times Square Cam page. There are seven different video cameras from which to choose. Each camera is trained on different areas of Times Square.

So, if you need to check the weather in Istanbul or Paris or right here in Times Square, NYC, just head on over to EarthCam and pick your camera.

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Doing More With Less

In the news recently, I saw a map of Earth that was used to illustrate some point in the article. And on that map, the continent of Antarctica was nowhere to be found. Having recently rewatched Werner Herzog’s Oscar nominated, 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World, I was annoyed that Antarctica had seemingly, well, fallen off the face of the Earth.

There are different types of world maps. Most of them distort the shapes of the land masses as well as the relationships between the continents, countries and bodies of water. It’s all misrepresented.

However, there is one map that does represent Earth without any obvious distortion. And that map is the Dymaxion Map, also known as the Fuller Projection Map. And that is Fuller as in Buckminster Fuller whom I mentioned in my post Call Me Trim Tab a few days ago. It’s a fantastic map and one of my favorite inventions by Fuller.

One more thing; Fuller made up the word “dymaxion”. If you haven’t heard of it before, can you guess what it means? Hint: It’s a portmanteau.