"Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds..."

July 25, 2006 11:24 AM

The extraordinary Center For Land Use Interpretation is a tertiary reference for one of today's posts, and it's been mentioned in comments before. Don't miss the Land Use Database or the Newsletter.
posted by scrump (9 comments total)

Bother. That should be "yesterday's posts". Mea culpa.
posted by scrump at 11:25 AM on July 25, 2006

"mea culpa" - the thinking man's "my bad".
posted by The Giant Squid at 11:56 AM on July 25, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

"my bad" - "mea culpa" hominis qui non cogitat.
posted by languagehat at 1:05 PM on July 25, 2006

On that database, caveat emptor. Much of the information is way out of date or incorrect. For example, under Vermont, Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, it states the plant produces 80% of Vermont's electricity. Actually, it's 1/3, according to Yankee's own page. In Massachusetts, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art -- (a) has a photo that's not the museum, (b) refers to "when completed" -- the museum has been open for 6 years.
posted by beagle at 1:57 PM on July 25, 2006

Land Use Interpretation.... hrm... You think there's any.... land use interpretive dance?
posted by The Giant Squid at 2:00 PM on July 25, 2006

The CLUI is an outgrowth (kinda) of the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Definitely worth a trip if you're in Los Angeles.
posted by turducken at 4:02 PM on July 25, 2006

To view the Center's Land Use Database information in Google Earth, open use their earth.kml file.
posted by jjwiseman at 4:49 PM on July 25, 2006

Somewhat dupish, although the links were diffrent.
posted by delmoi at 11:45 PM on July 25, 2006

Oh, sorry this is not a dupe, I am in fact an idiot. I just clicked one of the links and though "hmm, I've seen something about this atoll on metafilter before".
posted by delmoi at 11:46 PM on July 25, 2006