London Poverty Maps
From cartographers at the London School of Economics comes Maps Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-99 from the Charles Booth Online Archive.
Archive for December, 2005
Pathfinder, Heal Thy Self
Nissan has developed an auto paint that resists and even repairs scratches. Wear and tear due to everything from fingernails to roadside objects will disappear in one day to one week depending on the temperature and the seriousness of the scratch, says a statement from Nissan.
Alli Good
Cool drawings and paintings from North Carolina artist Allison Good. Her work will soon be up at the Push Gallery in Asheville, NC. See more of her paintings here too.
Media Monitoring
Despite the Bush administration’s best efforts, including a multimillion-dollar covert campaign to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media, the Arab press seems resoundingly skeptical of their plans for “complete victory”. Check out more of the BBC’s great Media Monitoring section that gives a roundup of the opinions from the world’s press.