Interesting Links for 06-02-2012

[andrewducker]

• The Meadows Map - a new naming scheme for the Edinburgh Meadows
  (tags: mario edinburgh )
• Snow Under A Microscope
  (tags: microsocopy science photography snow )
• How Mark Zuckerberg plans to retain dictatorial control of Facebook.
  (tags: MarkZuckerberg facebook )
• Children taight about failure in order to build resilience
  (tags: development children

Comments

[undeadbydawn]

the Meadows area designated 'Mario' is also known within the BFS community as 'the usual place'. It took me almost three months to figure this out, as no-one ever explained where the usual place actually was.

did you deliberately misspell 'taught'?

[andrewducker]

Nope. It was just late when I wrote that.

[danieldwilliam]

Quite tempted to do as the chap suggestes and stick copies of the map to a bunch of trees.

[danieldwilliam]

So, Facebook is a bet on Zuckerberg. That sounds about a fair assessment of the situation.

IIRC the Murdochs have a not dissimilar share set up for News International - currently NI shares are trading at a premium to the the market value of the component parts - indicating that the market think that the Murdochs are a good bet

[danieldwilliam]

This surely says more about me than about the author of the Meadows Map but I’ve worked out what makes me uneasy about the map.

Naming bits of ground *near where I live* after Super Mario characters has a significant lack of gravitas.

[andrewducker]

I can't see the more mature members of Morningside or Bruntsfield adopting the nomenclature. But the area is packed with students...

[danieldwilliam]

Perhaps my compatriots in Morningside and Bruntsfield could be offered a more acceptable set of names. Perhaps each segment named for an Alexander MacCall Smith character.

I predict a new Culture War.

[andrewducker]

I propose a compromise - Culture vessel names.

[momentsmusicaux]

Meadows link is broken but if it's the one I think it is, Fergus posted it to Facebook last summer.

I thought it was pointless then and still do. The footpaths already have good names.

[andrewducker]

Link is working for me.

And it's fine for roads to have names - that doesn't mean you can't name the areas too. Otherwise you have to refer to them as "the bit between road A and road B, before they cross road C" rather than "Yoshi".

(Not that I have any idea what the roads are called.)

[momentsmusicaux]

Because of the way the paths are laid out, you can uniquely describe any area with just two names.

[andrewducker]

I'd need to look at where the names of the paths start/stop, but it looks from the map like the part between "Peach" and "Tennis" doesn't conform to that. Of course, this map hasn't named that part either, so it's hardly solving that problem...