Disney Enhanced
I love maps. I'm more fond of rigorous, analytical maps that look a certain way because of the logic that's used, but these
Theme Park Maps have an allure all their own. I've always found them to be opaque and disorienting until you walk through the park at least once with your own eyes and feet. It's a form of
cognitive mapping that serves more as a souvenir than anything else.
Speaking of Disney, how 'bout this
mythbuster about lemmings:
The myth of mass lemming suicide began when the Walt Disney movie, Wild Wilderness was released in 1958. It was filmed in Alberta, Canada, far from the sea and not a native home to lemmings. So the filmmakers imported lemmings, by buying them from Inuit children. The migration sequence was filmed by placing the lemmings on a spinning turntable that was covered with snow, and then shooting it from many different angles. The cliff-death-plunge sequence was done by herding the lemmings over a small cliff into a river. It's easy to understand why the filmmakers did this - wild animals are notoriously uncooperative, and a migration-of-doom followed by a cliff-of-death sequence is far more dramatic to show than the lemmings' self-implemented population-density management plan.
Huh. Well, I could say, "speaking of lemmings," but since lemmings don't jump off cliffs I guess I shouldn't... speaking of lemmings, here's
RideMax, software that plans your trip to Disneyland using algorithms to minimize time spent waiting in line. Efficient lemming behavior.
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