It makes me think that every subway line in the world has been repurposed to run over everyone in need of health insurance. It also makes me suspect the motives of the mapmakers.
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Daily Archives: September 13, 2011
Ali’s iPad Tips
Here are some general tips about using the iPads:
1. There are 4 buttons: center, top right, volume, and side switch (above volume)
-The center button brings you to the home screen
-The top right button sleeps and wakes the iPad; hold it to shut down the iPad
-The volume buttons control the volume
-The side switch can be set to either lock the orientation of the iPad (portrait or landscape) or to mute all sounds on the iPad; these settings can be changed in the settings icon under general
2. To rearrange apps, tap-and-hold an app until all the apps start to wiggle; to stop the wiggling, press the center button
3. To make a group of apps, tap-and-hold an app until all the apps start to wiggle, then drag one app on top of another app; this will create a group. You can break down a group by dragging an app out of the group.
4. To select/cut/copy, tap-and-hold near the part you want to select; do the same thing to paste
5. To take a screenshot, click the top right button and the center button at the same time; the image will be saved in your Camera Roll
6. In general, if you can’t figure out how to access an app’s settings, tap-and-hold it; that usually works
Have fun!
P.S. If you encounter any problems, email me ([email protected]) or if you want to learn more, go to help.apple.com/ipad
Dragons
When The old mapmakers got to the end of the known world, they used to write:
BEYOND THIS PLACE THERE BE DRAGONS
Borges, “Of Exactitude in Science”
Of Exactitude in Science
…In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map of a Single province covered the space of an entire City, and the Map of the Empire itself an entire Province. In the course of Time, these Extensive maps were found somehow wanting, and so the College of Cartographers evolved a Map of the Empire that was of the same Scale as the Empire and that coincided with it point for point. Less attentive to the Study of Cartography, succeeding Generations came to judge a map of such Magnitude cumbersome, and, not without Irreverence, they abandoned it to the Rigours of sun and Rain. In the western Deserts, tattered Fragments of the Map are still to be found, Sheltering an occasional Beast or beggar; in the whole Nation, no other relic is left of the Discipline of Geography.
—From Travels of Praiseworthy Men (1658) by J. A. Suarez Miranda
The piece was written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. English translation quoted from J. L. Borges, A Universal History of Infamy, Penguin Books, London, 1975.
From Wikipedia:
The story elaborates on a concept in Lewis Carroll‘s Sylvie and Bruno Concluded: a fictional map that had “the scale of a mile to the mile.” One of Carroll’s characters notes some practical difficulties with this map and states that “we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well.”