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Carson
Ben Fry map discussed on Fark.com
May 12th, 2008, 7:24am  
Ben Fry's road map is being discussed on Fark.com.

Fark comments can be pretty off the wall at times. This is a link to the ones for this story.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3597587

The way fark works is if some comes across and weird or interesting story they make up a headline and post it on Fark.

On one side of the headline is an icon that links to the original story. On the other side of the headline is a number that links to the Fark comments on the story.

The headline for this story was posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008. It reads, "Some guy decides to draw every road in America - and he means *every* road. The result is the coolest map you will see for a while".

http://www.fark.com/
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mflux
Re: Ben Fry map discussed on Fark.com
Reply #1 - May 12th, 2008, 9:54am  
A link to Fark... on Processing.org discourse? My eyes must be playing tricks. In the words of the internet: "You're doing it wrong!"

For more (mis)interpretations of data visualization see Digg.com and Reddit.com.
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Carson
Re: Ben Fry map discussed on Fark.com
Reply #2 - May 12th, 2008, 3:21pm  
I did sort of do it backwards. Still if people were talking about my work on Fark, I would hope someone tipped me off about it.

I think...
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fry
Re: Ben Fry map discussed on Fark.com
Reply #3 - May 12th, 2008, 3:43pm  
so *that's* where all the random emails are coming from this morning...i couldn't figure out what was going on.
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seltar
Re: Ben Fry map discussed on Fark.com
Reply #4 - May 12th, 2008, 6:21pm  
From my point of view that thread is just a lot of people being dumb.. Or in other words, people that don't understand the awesomeness!
Hadn't seen the All Roads project Ben, it's absolutely amazing! Smiley
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Carson
Re: Ben Fry map discussed on Fark.com
Reply #5 - May 13th, 2008, 12:17am  
People do say some strange things on Fark. Some of it is so off the wall it becomes sort of an art form.

It does take some getting used to.

Don't let any of it get to you Fry. Many of the posters just can't miss an opportunity to poke at someone.

Many of us remember you from some of your other work. Like the Zip Code thing.

I was sort of thinking that I had heard of you on the old Screen Savers show that Leo Laporte used to be on. Maybe not though.
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