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maphugger: Laconic History of The World (2012) My first attempt at a typographic map. Don’t be content with the shrunken version up there: this thing is pretty dang sprawling: I’ve prepped a mind-boggling 12,500 pixel wide version you can enjoy exploring: http://hugepic.io/d2012641f/3.00/57.89/9.67 This map was produced by running all the various countries’ “History of _____” Wikipedia article through a word cloud, then writing out the most common word to fit into the country’s boundary. The result is thousands of years of human history oversimplified into 100-some words. I’ve also prepared a reader’s companion to highlight a few of the more interesting findings. Read it here. Great. So according to this, Hungary is a place to party, and Slovakia is hungarian.
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Laconic History of The World (2012)

My first attempt at a typographic map. Don’t be content with the shrunken version up there: this thing is pretty dang sprawling: I’ve prepped a mind-boggling 12,500 pixel wide version you can enjoy exploring:

http://hugepic.io/d2012641f/3.00/57.89/9.67

This map was produced by running all the various countries’ “History of _____” Wikipedia article through a word cloud, then writing out the most common word to fit into the country’s boundary. The result is thousands of years of human history oversimplified into 100-some words.

I’ve also prepared a reader’s companion to highlight a few of the more interesting findings. Read it here.

Great. So according to this, Hungary is a place to party, and Slovakia is hungarian.

Bordal

zsir:

balkapeti:

Magyar vagyok, fröccsöt iszok,
akkor is ha másnap fosok.
Ha buborék megy a fejembe,
Könnyen esem szerelembe. 

Egyszer-kétszer pálinkázok,
attól aztán jól elázok.
Részegen majd üvöltözök:
Kurva anyád, te kis köcsög!

De mikor a rosszkedv elér,
akkor nyúlok unikumér’.
Epét inni minő gyönyör,
főleg hogyha bánat gyötör.

A sör sem olyan szar dolog,
attól vígan dalolok.
Aki magyar sört vedel,
Kurva anyád, Léderer! 

kosullo: unknownskywalker: Mooning Mercury This discovery image provides the first evidence that Mercury has a small natural satellite or moon. Visible as a small bright spot in this image taken in March 31, 2012 by MESSENGER, the moon is approximately 70 meters in diameter and orbits Mercury at a mean distance of 14,300 km. A proposal to name the moon “Caduceus,” after the staff carried by the Roman god Mercury, has been submitted by the MESSENGER team to the International Astronomical Union, the body responsible for assigning names to celestial objects. This discovery presents an unprecedented opportunity for a return of samples from the Mercury system. In an emergency meeting yesterday evening The MESSENGER team took a unanimous decision to use the remaining propellant to crash MESSENGER into Caduceus. With the right timing and trajectory, MESSENGER will impart just enough momentum to the moon to break it free of Mercury’s gravity well and set it on an Earth-crossing trajectory suitable for recovery as a Mercury meteorite. If Caduceus is successfully released from the pull of Mercury and placed on a course to reach Earth, we can expect the moon to arrive at Earth by 2014. The MESSENGER team have designed a trajectory that will bring the moon to Earth at a remote location on the Wilkes Land ice sheet in Antarctica within reach for retrieval by the scientific staff at the U.S.-operated McMurdo Station. Ne bassz, képtelen vagyok elhinni, hogy az ember képes holdat lopni. Túl jól hangozna.
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Mooning Mercury

This discovery image provides the first evidence that Mercury has a small natural satellite or moon. Visible as a small bright spot in this image taken in March 31, 2012 by MESSENGER, the moon is approximately 70 meters in diameter and orbits Mercury at a mean distance of 14,300 km.

A proposal to name the moon “Caduceus,” after the staff carried by the Roman god Mercury, has been submitted by the MESSENGER team to the International Astronomical Union, the body responsible for assigning names to celestial objects.

This discovery presents an unprecedented opportunity for a return of samples from the Mercury system. In an emergency meeting yesterday evening The MESSENGER team took a unanimous decision to use the remaining propellant to crash MESSENGER into Caduceus. With the right timing and trajectory, MESSENGER will impart just enough momentum to the moon to break it free of Mercury’s gravity well and set it on an Earth-crossing trajectory suitable for recovery as a Mercury meteorite.

If Caduceus is successfully released from the pull of Mercury and placed on a course to reach Earth, we can expect the moon to arrive at Earth by 2014. The MESSENGER team have designed a trajectory that will bring the moon to Earth at a remote location on the Wilkes Land ice sheet in Antarctica within reach for retrieval by the scientific staff at the U.S.-operated McMurdo Station.

Ne bassz, képtelen vagyok elhinni, hogy az ember képes holdat lopni. Túl jól hangozna.

ianbrooks: The Real Fake Peter Molyneux Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:
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ianbrooks: The Real Fake Peter Molyneux Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:
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ianbrooks: The Real Fake Peter Molyneux Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:
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ianbrooks: The Real Fake Peter Molyneux Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:
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ianbrooks: The Real Fake Peter Molyneux Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:
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ianbrooks: The Real Fake Peter Molyneux Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:
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ianbrooks: The Real Fake Peter Molyneux Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:
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ianbrooks: The Real Fake Peter Molyneux Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:
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ianbrooks: The Real Fake Peter Molyneux Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:
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ianbrooks: The Real Fake Peter Molyneux Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:
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The Real Fake Peter Molyneux

Recently suspended from twitter, the authentic fake Peter Molyneux is back, bringing you the greatest ideas since Fable let you sleep with 8 people at once on a mat inside a tent in the middle of the woods. Follow the amazing game concepts and try to claim you wouldnt play a game where you give birth to an invisible child or hunt the ghosts of your dead friends: twitter@petermolydeux. One more, for good measure:

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