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What's New 2009-06-16 and Site Updates List Click above for complete list. In this edition, see: • Why Cahill? What about Buckminster
Fuller? "Evolution
of the Dymaxion Map: An Illustrated Tour and Critique" [on 17 interlinked
pages]. Summary: I love Bucky, but Cahill's map is a lot better. Here's
how.
Prior update 2009-03-24 • Major re-organization
of
B.J.S. Cahill Butterfly Map Resource Page: • New uploads of six Cahill articles • New link-list of online Cahill maps and articles • Reformatted Cahill-Keyes maps • Recent uploads of • Cahill archive listings • Cahill Gallery 2: B.J.S. Cahill's Largest World Map, 1/12,500,000: Illustrated analysis with full-size online images |
1) Strategic Nonviolence 1.1) Strategic Nonviolent Defense: The Construct of an Option
1.2) Stalin's Finland Fiasco: Nonviolent Defense Clues from the Winter War 1.3) Heavy Casualties and Nonviolent Defense 1.4) Force Without Firepower: A Doctrine of Unarmed Military Service (Be patient; this is a 2.2 MB pdf with illustrations.) 1.5) Mercy Force 1.6) Peacekeeping Buffer Action by Unarmed Forces |
2) World Maps
Cahill-Keyes "Real-World"
Map (c. 1975, 2009)
Here 1/200 M), scrolls down this page, or Here (larger, 1/100 M), separate page 2.2) Design notes "Notes on Scaling Cahill and Cahill-Keyes Maps" 2.3) Papers "Geocells and the Megamap" 2.4) B.J.S. Cahill Resource Page (many of Cahill's articles and map images) 2.5) Why Cahill? What about Buckminster Fuller? "Evolution of the Dymaxion Map: An Illustrated Tour and Critique" [on 17 interlinked pages]. Summary: I love Bucky, but Cahill's map is a lot better. Here's how. |
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| 3) Esperanto 3.1) Dr. Esperanto's International Language
(the original 1887 pamphlet, online here)
3.2) Yuletide Carols / Jula Karolaro3.3) The Me Clone / La Mi-Klono 3.4) Libraro Ludovika |
4) HyperCard: URLfriend 1.0 If you can still run a Mac with OS 9, here is a stack that can handle thousands of bookmarks. open any URL in any browser, and keep copious notes on each. |
5) Helpful Hints for My Next Incarnation Welcome back to earth; I presume we are still in the 21st century. These are some things you learned in your previous life when your name was Gene Keyes. I am giving you a headstart on them so that you don't have to spend years and years of re-learning. 5.1) How to Eat a Watermelon
5.2) How to Prevent Jock Itch with Rubbing Alcohol 5.3) How to Make a Moebius Towel (and Why) |
| 6) Blog Some current-affairs miscellany; most recent: 6.8) The Identity Theft of Breyers Ice Cream |
7) S-F: online book or zip, The Me Clone / La Mi-Klono a romantic comedy, somewhat s-f romantika komedio, iomete s-f |
8) Links: My other web pages |
| 10) Presenting poetry and publications by my mother, Charlotte E. Keyes (1914-1980)
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11) Presenting Works by Others
11.1) "The
Mean Old Pacifist" (1963 antiwar song lyrics
with MIDI; composer unknown)
[and see also] (the original 1887 pamphlet, online here) |
| 1) Strategic
Nonviolence Six GK articles reposted here:
1.1) STRATEGIC NONVIOLENT DEFENSE: THE CONSTRUCT OF AN OPTION (Journal of Strategic Studies, 4 / 2, 1981-06) p. 125-151 Condensation of my 1978 doctoral thesis; offers a newer theory of national nonviolent defense. HTML. 1.2) STALIN'S FINLAND FIASCO: NONVIOLENT DEFENSE CLUES FROM THE WINTER WAR (Crossroads: An International Socio-Political Journal, Number 17, 1985) p. 27-58. Reformatted in HTML, with extra material and maps. 1.3) "HEAVY CASUALTIES AND NONVIOLENT DEFENSE" (Philosophy and Social Action, 17 / 1 & 2, 1991-01/06) p. 71-88. Also, see introduction by Brian Martin. [Thanks to Brian Martin, http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/peace.html#lead. 1.4) "FORCE WITHOUT FIREPOWER: A DOCTRINE OF UNARMED MILITARY SERVICE" (CoEvolution Quarterly [now Whole Earth Review], #34, 1982 Summer) p. 4-25. Be patient; this is a 2.2 MB pdf with illustrations. [Thanks to Howard Rheingold and Whole Earth Review Special Collection at OSS.net.] 1.5) MERCY FORCE: "BIG HUMAN NEEDS CRY FOR BIG ANSWERS" (USA Today, 1992-02-24) p. 7AGo back to Contents |
| 2) World
Maps 2.1) The Cahill-Keyes
"Real-World" Map
Click here for a bigger: 1/100,000,000 version (40 cm wide or 16") (715 kb). Below is a reduced preliminary draft printed in 1984:
2.2) Design notes
2.3) Geocells and the
Megamap
In a 1983 conference paper I coined the word "geocell" to designate a one-degree unit of latitude and longitude. That neologism has recently been (re?)-invented in several technical-military publications, which I cite as a PS to my online reprint here. ABSTRACT: Broaches the concept of "geocell", one degree of latitude and longitude, as a design criterion for world maps and globes in general, and for a proposed 1/1,000,000 "Megamap" in particular: a single frame conspectus adapting B.J.S. Cahill's octahedral projection. Emphasizes proportionality of geocells in the Cahill-Keyes variant. 2.4) B.J.S. CAHILL BUTTERFLY MAP RESOURCE PAGE OCTAHEDRAL MAP OF THE WORLD The Octahedral Butterfly Map of the World, by Bernard J.S. Cahill (1866-1944). first published in 1909, is a sadly neglected monument of world map design. This resource presents some of Cahill's articles, papers, and map variants, which he continued to develop during four decades until 1940.
2.4.1 Cahill's original Butterfly Map, 1909 To begin with, I have reproduced his original 1909 article, which, after a strong critique of the prevailing Mercator, sets forth the origin and logic of the Butterfly. B.J.S. Cahill, "An Account of a New Land Map of the World" 2.4.2
Cahill elaborates on the Butterfly Map, and International Map of the World, 1912 Reproduced here in HTML is a 33
page article plus 50 illustrations, Cahill’s longest and
most thoroughgoing exposition of his world map design, as published
in the Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies
in 1913 (orig. 1912). Over three decades before Buckminster Fuller’s
1943 Dymaxion map, Cahill had already created a far more elegant octahedral
world map, and shown how it is designed for thinking “planetarily”.
B.J.S. Cahill, "A Land Map of the World on a New Projection" 2.4.3 Gallery 1: B.J.S CAHILL'S BUTTERFLY MAP AND BEYOND: A COMPARATIVE GALLERY OF OCTAHEDRAL WORLD MAPS 2.4.4
Gallery 2: B.J.S. Cahill's Largest World Map, 1/12,500,000: Illustrated analysis with full-size online images 2.5
Evolution of the Dymaxion Map: An Illustrated Tour and Critique by Gene Keyes 2009-06-15 [on 17 interlinked pages] Go back to Contents |
| 3) Esperanto
Esperanto is the international second language for all countries, first presented in 1887 by Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof; now with hundreds of thousands of users around the world. Here are some of my contributions to it: 3.1) My reprint, online or paper,
of the original version:
The original 1887 Esperanto proposal, back in print for a new millennium Dr. Esperanto’s International Language, Introduction & Complete Grammar by Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof
English Edition translated by R.H. Geoghegan Balliol College, Oxford 1889 New printing, edited and preface by Gene Keyes 2000 Halifax, Nova Scotia: Verkista HTML version with updated preface 2006 Berwick, Nova Scotia Gene Keyes Website http://www.genekeyes.com 3.2) My own Christmas carol
translations, a set in progress: English and
Esperanto, with melody score:
Now posted, online or as an HTML zip download: The Me Clone, a science-fiction romantic comedy, 33 chapters, 220-page equivalent. It also has a complete Esperanto translation, La Mi-Klono, in the adjoining column. Even if you don't read Esperanto, you might enjoy getting a little flavor of it this way. To read the online version, click here for Contents of the e-book (with links to every chapter). If you want to read it offline, download the HTML-zip version. The zip file is about 1 MB, and expands to about 3 MB. Be sure to follow the "Read Me" instructions. Update 2006-12-01: Problem with opening zip file on PC's now corrected.
3.4) An Esperanto library catalog I compiled for Dr. Stevens Norvell Jr.: Libraro Ludovika (originally in Halifax; relocated to Montreal in 2008) Click below to read the catalog of Libraro Ludovika, North America's largest active Esperanto library, ca. 2,000 titles. Collected by Dr. Stevens Norvell Jr. in Halifax; indexed by GK: Enkonduko [Introduction] and/or Katalogo [Catalog] (Both in Esperanto.)
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4) HyperCard
URLfriend 1.0 is a versatile HyperCard stack for full-screen note-taking, managing, updating, and opening thousands of URLs in any browser. Works on Macs which can run OS 9. For full details and screenshot, go here. To download URLfriend 1.0, click icon above. The compressed file is 195 k; the unstuffed URLfriend folder is 520 k, comprising the Stack (163 k), two Read-me's (65 k each), and the Bookman font (228 k). My 2,900 URLs not included ... Go back to Contents |
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5) Helpful Hints
for my Next Incarnation
Welcome back to earth; I presume we are still in the 21st century. These are some things you learned in your previous life when your name was Gene Keyes. I am giving you a headstart on them so that you don't have to spend years and years of re-learning. • How to Eat a Watermelon Go back to Contents |
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6) Blog
Some current-affairs miscellany, on a separate page of this website:
This is not a full-fledged blog with comments, but feedback can be posted at the Daily Kos version of this page: Go back to Contents |
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7) Science Fiction
See link / description above (at #3, Esperanto) of my online or HTML-zip 33-chapter S-F romantic comedy, The Me Clone / La Mi-Klono, in adjoining English and Esperanto versions. To read the online version, click here for Contents of the e-book (with links to every chapter). If you want to read it offline, download the HTML-zip version. The zip file is about 1 MB, and expands to about 3 MB. Be sure to follow the "Read Me" instructions. Update 2006-12-01: Problem with opening zip file on PC's now corrected. Go back to Contents |