New designs on the London tube map – about time too? Not really as it fails to include the walking distances between nearby stations that encourage people to not use the tube. Source: Mind the map
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New designs on the London tube map – about time too? Not really as it fails to include the walking distances between nearby stations that encourage people to not use the tube. Source: Mind the map
flakkari
“Icelandic culture is infused with stories of travel. When names were needed for modern machines, the technology that enables our imaginations to travel, words were chosen that centred on the quality of roaming. Thus the neologism for laptop is fartölva, formed from the verb far, meaning to migrate, and tölva – migrating computer’; its companion, the external hard drive, is a flakkari. The latter word can also mean ‘wanderer’ or ‘vagrant’. In the end it’s the wanderers we rely on.” From Nancy Campbell’s “The Library of Ice”.
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