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Has-Johnny-Cash-Been-EverywhereAn interactive map (requires Chrome or Safari) created by Iain Mullan for London Music Hack Day 2012 based on all the locations mentioned in the Man In Black’s 1966 recording of Jeff Mack’s 1959 tune.

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Cambridge700ed-fairburn-map-art-western-fronted-fairburn-3-windermereed-fairburn-map-art-1 ed-fairburn-map-art-2PARIS_7001Cardiff-based illustrator Ed Fairburn extrapolates portraits of human faces ‘hidden’ in  the topographical features of various maps of the world.

(Above: Ink on a vintage street map of Cambridge, reproduced military maps of the Western Front (World War II); Lake Windermere; an original Michelin map of France (2 pix) and a vintage street map of Paris.)

He also sells them as prints.

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Diaspora

Sarah Kliff, from the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, writes:

“According to the Census, there are 34.5 million Americans who list their heritage as either primarily or partially Irish. That number is, incidentally, seven times larger than the population of Ireland itself (4.68 million). Irish is the second-most common ancestry among Americans, falling just behind German.”

…

“There is exactly one neighborhood in the entire country that has a majority-Irish population, according to the data Kolko looked at: Breezy Point in Queens. There, 54.3 percent of the population claims Irish ancestry.”

Read more here.

Previously: Meanwhile, In Breezy Point 

Thanks Edward Gash

The Amazing iOS6 Maps – a whole Tumblr dedicated to Apple Maps fails.

Above: Winninger Brücke in Germany; Salvador Dali’s Melting Petrona Towers (Kuala Lumpur) and the awesome new rock climbing walls of Oakland’s 980 Freeway.

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