Dymaxion cubicle

Dopplr Blog » Announcing the Dopplr 100, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

I just realized that the Dopplr 100 announcement used Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Earth map. Fuller is one of my heros. He invented a lot of cool stuff, particularly geodesic engineering (yes, the domes).

This map attempts to represent the earth as a large island chain, and ignores the north/south/east/west bias of other maps. It also has very little distortion, unlike Mercator projection that makes Greenland look enormous, for example.

I really thing that The /Messengers should be one of the 100, but I am not formally bitching. Grumble.