Get the whole Map Symbols & Patterns for NPS Maps.

Above is Draplin’s Superbowl Logo, one of eight logo redesigns commissioned by the New York Times:

There has long been a logo on the Super Bowl field. Only now is there a field on the Super Bowl logo.
For something designed to market the N.F.L.’s biggest game, the official logo featured no football until Super Bowl XXVI, no nod to the league’s familiar shield until Super Bowl XXXIV and no hint to the two conferences that send representatives until Super Bowl XL — not counting the first game, which was not called a Super Bowl at all.
But the 43 Super Bowl logos illustrate more than an annual championship. They draw a line through the league’s growth, the trends of graphic design, even the vagaries of one nation’s popular culture.

See all eight designs.

Storm Trooper in a Snuggie, originally uploaded by emotionaltoothpaste

No stimulus needed on the Snuggie front: Marketing’s New Red-Hot Seller: Humble Snuggie:

The Snuggie blanket launched nationally on direct-response TV in October, just as the economy was slowing to a crawl, so the timing seemingly couldn’t have been worse. However, it turns out the timing couldn’t have been better.
The quirky little blanket with sleeves has become the raiment of the zeitgeist, with more than 4 million units sold in just over three months and more than 200 parody videos on YouTube. Fox News honed in on a woman wearing a Snuggie as she braved the cold attending Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20, five days after Ellen DeGeneres donned one on her daytime talk show.

The makers of the Snuggie have made almost $40 million. There is no commentary worthy of this figure.

Southern Cross Station, originally uploaded by plemeljr

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Greg Lynn discusses the development of calculus based tools and the architectural results. This type of experimentation is quite interesting, even if I don’t wholly believe in it.

From Transportation For America comes the above map, United States of Transit Cutbacks. Stimulus money should go to transit organizations to minimize transit cuts and fare increases. This will directly add money to citizens pockets while continuing the growth of mass transit throughout America.

The mean center of U.S. population is determined by the United States Census Bureau after tabulating the results of each census. The Bureau defines it to be:

…the point at which an imaginary, flat, weightless, and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if weights of identical value were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person on the date of the census.

During the 20th century, the mean center of population has shifted 324 miles west and 101 miles south. The southerly movement was much stronger during the second half of the century; 79 miles of the 101 miles happened between 1950 and 2000.

Mean center of United States population