All for One, and One for One

Green Consumers and the Recession: Is It Really Different This Time?

“What we see in more developed countries is that, yes, there is the idea of having a personal benefit, but there is a greater sense of altruism when you’re behaving green. In the U.S., it has more to do with the personal benefit as opposed to having some sort of general sense that we have to save the planet.”

I’m shocked — shocked! — to find gambling going on in this establishment.

Maps not to be Taken Literally

Flickr: Eisenhower Interstate System in the style of H.C. Beck’s London Underground Diagram

At least this map isn’t quite as distorted as the DC metro map, but I see e.g. it has Schenectady closer to Syracuse than Albany, and the route from Albany to Boston as a straight line, as one should expect of a schematic map, where your lines are limited to the eight choices at 45º

I’ve long despised the DC Metro map, because it was useless to me the first time I needed to get around while visiting; the cabbies were on strike, and I was forced to use plan B, except I had no plan B at the time. The schematic layout made little sense to me as I wasn’t familiar with the geographical layout of the city.

See Beck’s Tube Maps