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ok, this is the zenith of cool. also the zenith of geek. but come now, a conformal map projection that preserves local shapes but displays everything from the earth all the way to the cosmic microwave background & the very limits of visibility itself!!1!
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or perhaps, the *Genealogy* of the Malays. this astounding feat of fashioning and manufacturing an entire race is just about the most heroic claim my country could put to history … if they would only admit to it.
January 23, 2008
a historian's craft 
February 1st, 2008 at 8:34 am
Rachel, thanks for that Malaysia Today link. The evening after I read it, I was in a conversation where someone asked me “so, what is a Malay?”. Had it been six hours earlier the topic would have changed much sooner.
February 6th, 2008 at 1:00 am
you’re welcome! I hope the conversation was fruitful — it’s pleasing to imagine the tableau: you as a newly-minted guru of the topic, with your listeners flocked around you, rapt with attention as you dispense your fortuitously acquired knowledge with towering gravitas … đŸ™‚