Despite the many calls for a general strike this morning, and despite my being in an excellent position to participate in it - secure, unionized job, lots of available leave to take, very reasonable management - I elected this morning to wake up, make the coffee, and hop on the train to Flushing. While going about my day I’m catching snippets of the actions happening citywide and, while my heart is with them, the majority of my mind is focused on the tasks set before me by the City of New York. Despite being highly conscious of the many real injustices the current Occupy movement seeks to address, and despite being wholly supportive of the methods and reasons for collective action particularly as it related to labor, I know I made the ethical decision today. Here’s why.
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#nyc #orthoimagery #infrared color adjustment makes reflected infrared show as red, causing plants to stand out. (Taken with instagram)
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The Google Map of the 19th Century
It seems like the quintessentially contemporary phenomenon: the pedestrian, walking along, distracted from his surroundings by the glowing blue dot of the map in his smartphone.
But there have been some oblivious palm-gazers, it turns out, since long before Steve Jobs came along. In London, during the Great Exhibition of 1851, the merchant George Shove designed a ladylike accessory that would allow its wearer to navigate, discreetly and easily, the fair’s Hyde Park environs.
The proto-mobile map! Subtle and delightful! As Harvard’s John Overholt put it, the map-in-the-hand is basically “a 19th century PalmPilot.”
Read more. [Image: UK National Archives]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjp9ziZgF1qcokc4o1_250.jpg)
The Google Map of the 19th Century
It seems like the quintessentially contemporary phenomenon: the pedestrian, walking along, distracted from his surroundings by the glowing blue dot of the map in his smartphone.
But there have been some oblivious palm-gazers, it turns out, since long before Steve Jobs came along. In London, during the Great Exhibition of 1851, the merchant George Shove designed a ladylike accessory that would allow its wearer to navigate, discreetly and easily, the fair’s Hyde Park environs.
The proto-mobile map! Subtle and delightful! As Harvard’s John Overholt put it, the map-in-the-hand is basically “a 19th century PalmPilot.”
Read more. [Image: UK National Archives]
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