I sort of hate to admit this, but there is a lot about this map (in the spirit of that most famous of New Yorker covers, Saul Steinberg's 1976 "View of the World from Ninth Avenue") that is spot-on. Of course, as a Southern Californian I know that LA and SF are more than an hour apart, and that more than wine is grown up north. But the precise location of Nebraska?
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Geographic illiteracy
I sort of hate to admit this, but there is a lot about this map (in the spirit of that most famous of New Yorker covers, Saul Steinberg's 1976 "View of the World from Ninth Avenue") that is spot-on. Of course, as a Southern Californian I know that LA and SF are more than an hour apart, and that more than wine is grown up north. But the precise location of Nebraska?
