977: Map Projections - Revision history

DollarStoreBa'al: cat

2026-03-31T17:03:24Z

cat

81.179.199.253: /* Transcript */ Not really 'bold'

2026-02-24T20:00:48Z

‎Transcript: Not really 'bold'

2600:4040:52F7:9A00:CDB5:8D4D:4A6C:9917: /* Transcript */

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‎Transcript

2600:4040:52F7:9A00:CDB5:8D4D:4A6C:9917: Added trivia about header text.

2026-02-20T23:17:02Z

Added trivia about header text.

Lettherebedarklight: Undo revision 389777 by 82.132.244.138 (talk)

2025-10-29T15:50:19Z

Undo revision 389777 by 82.132.244.138 (talk)

82.132.244.138: Undo revision 389755 by Lettherebedarklight (talk) Not a total myth, but I don't see reason to expand this version to include notes why it's only part of the full truth.

2025-10-29T14:35:52Z

Undo revision 389755 by Lettherebedarklight (talk) Not a *total* myth, but I don't see reason to expand this version to include notes why it's only part of the full truth.

Lettherebedarklight: /* Dymaxion */ myth

2025-10-29T07:53:01Z

‎Dymaxion: myth

82.132.237.85: /* Explanation */ As we're rewriting, try this.

2025-08-20T20:08:13Z

‎Explanation: As we're rewriting, try this.

FaviFake: Odd, i didn't know singular they was criticised. copy pasted updated info from wp

2025-08-20T10:48:42Z

Odd, i didn't know singular they was criticised. copy pasted updated info from wp

82.132.245.240: Undo revision 384514 by FaviFake (talk) I don't understand the argument for removing this fact.

2025-08-19T13:56:30Z

Undo revision 384514 by FaviFake (talk) I don't understand the argument for removing this fact.

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 ==Transcript==
 :What your favorite
-:[In bold] 'Map Projection'
+:[More prominant, larger text] 'Map Projection'
 :says about you
 :[All of these are organized as Title, a copy of the particular projection underneath, and what it says about you under that.]

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 ==Transcript==
 :What your favorite
-:'''Map Projection'''
+:[In bold] 'Map Projection'
 :says about you
 :[All of these are organized as Title, a copy of the particular projection underneath, and what it says about you under that.]

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	*In German, "Winkel-Tripel-Projektion" means "Winkel's triple projection". Therefore, the hyphen in the comic shouldn't be there: "Winkel Tripel" or "Winkel tripel".		*In German, "Winkel-Tripel-Projektion" means "Winkel's triple projection". Therefore, the hyphen in the comic shouldn't be there: "Winkel Tripel" or "Winkel tripel".
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		+	*The days comic used a special text at the header of xkcd.com, deviating from the typical message. It read “It turns out Monday was Steve Waterman's birthday. His site has posters of his map, plus maybe the world's only Winkel Tripel-critiquing poetry.”

	{{comic discussion}}		{{comic discussion}}

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 *Brought to the world by {{w|Dean Kamen}}, the {{w|Segway PT}} was supposed to be a device that changed the way cities were built. In practice, it had the same problems as other novel personal transporters, such as the {{w|Sinclair C5}} many years earlier. Small, powered vehicles didn't fit neatly into the existing infrastructure for cars, bikes or pedestrians; using them on roads or sidewalks could be unsafe, illegal or both. Early versions of the Segway also cost more than a used car, such that they were never widespread enough to provoke legal or infrastructure changes. The devices found a small niche among law enforcement, mall/airport security and tour operators, rather than private owners. The former owner of {{w|Segway Inc.}}, the late {{w|Jimi Heselden}}, accidentally rode his Segway off a cliff in 2010. Ninebot, then owner of the Segway brand, announced in 2020 that the flagship 2-wheeled self-balancing vehicle would be discontinued.
 *At the time of comic release, 3D goggles, nowadays widely known as {{w|Virtual reality headset|VR headsets}}, were considered a gimmick at best. The original idea is as old as 3D graphics, but it never really took off until mid-2010s. Earlier products were very unwieldy and offered poor graphics quality, so no one took this technology seriously.
-*{{w|Dvorak Simplified Keyboard|Dvorak}} is an alternate keyboard layout to {{w|QWERTY}}. According to legend, QWERTY was invented to help keep manual typewriters from jamming (by placing the most used keys far from each other) but Dr. {{w|August Dvorak}} performed many studies and found the mathematically optimal keyboard layout to reduce finger travel for right handed typists. While some claim Dvorak is technically better than QWERTY, QWERTY had become the standard. Most keyboards were laid out in QWERTY format, but a lot of software exists to remap the keys to DVORAK for those interested in typing faster.  Retraining the brain to use Dvorak takes perhaps a week.  It has become a [[:Category:Dvorak|recurrent theme]] on xkcd.
+*{{w|Dvorak Simplified Keyboard|Dvorak}} is an alternate keyboard layout to {{w|QWERTY}}. According to legend, Dr. {{w|August Dvorak}} performed many studies and found the mathematically optimal keyboard layout to reduce finger travel for right handed typists. While some claim Dvorak is technically better than QWERTY, QWERTY had become the standard. Most keyboards were laid out in QWERTY format, but a lot of software exists to remap the keys to DVORAK for those interested in typing faster.  Retraining the brain to use Dvorak takes perhaps a week.  It has become a [[:Category:Dvorak|recurrent theme]] on xkcd.
 {{clear}}
 [[File:Winkel-TripelProjection.jpg|frame|left|The Winkel Tripel projection]]
 ===Winkel-Tripel===
 Proposed by Oswald Winkel in 1921, the {{w|Winkel tripel projection}} tried to reduce a set of three (''Tripel:'' German for triple) main problems with map projections: area, direction, and distance. The {{w|Kavrayskiy VII projection|Kavrayskiy projection}} is very similar to the Winkel Tripel and was used by the USSR, but very few in the Western world know of it.

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 Randall associates the Hobo–Dyer projection to "crunchy granola" — a stereotype associated with vegetarianism, environmental activism, anti-war activism, liberal political leanings, and some traces of {{w|hippie}} culture.
-With feminism becoming mainstream and non-binary genders being more widely accepted, some have begun to invent gender-neutral pronouns so that when referring to a person whose gender is not known they cannot be offended by being referred to by the wrong pronouns. Singular ''they'' is a gender-neutral {{w|third-person pronoun}} derived from plural they. It is typically used to refer to an unknown person, or to refer to every person of some group. This use of singular ''they'' had emerged by the 14th century and has been criticised since the mid-18th century by {{w|linguistic prescription|prescriptive commentators}} who consider it an error. Its continued use in modern {{w|standard English}} has become more common and formally accepted with the move toward {{w|gender-neutral language}}. Some early-21st-century {{w|style guide}}s described it as colloquial and less appropriate in formal writing. However, by 2020, most style guides accepted the singular ''they'' as a {{w|personal pronoun}}. In the early 21st century, use of singular ''they'' with known individuals emerged for {{w|Non-binary gender|non-binary people}}, as in, for example, "This is my friend, ''Jay''. I met ''them'' at work."
+Initially with feminism becoming mainstream, and then as non-binary genders became more widely accepted, some have begun to invent novel gender-neutral pronouns so that, when referring to a person whose gender is not definitively male or female, they cannot either offend by using an undesirable pronoun or apply the social baggage of the '{{w|Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns#Generic he|generic he/she}}'. Actually, from at least {{w|Middle English}} onwards, the '{{w|singular they}}' and its derivatives were always an acceptable solution, but the influence of [https://www.merriam-webster.com/video/the-awkward-case-of-his-or-her prescriptivist Victorian grammarians] led to some people considering that usage to be grammatically incorrect and led to {{w|gender-neutral pronoun#Table of standard and non-standard third-person singular pronouns|a plethora of terms}} being combined or coined to refer either to anyone/everyone, equally, or specifically for those who are non-binary. It's not clear whether Randall thinks the person adopting the Hobo-Dyer map is using such novel pronouns for their own identity, or as a conscious consideration for others. Perhaps both.
 [[File:PlateCarreeProjection.jpg|frame|left|The Plate Carrée projection]]