Showing posts with label illeteracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illeteracy. Show all posts

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Speaking of April Fools...

On a recent Air Canada flight I got to see a little Canadian TV, specifically This Hour Has 22 Minutes. They like to make fun of Toronto mayor Rob Ford who has a long history of saying dumb things. On a recent visit to Chicago someone told him they'd been to the part of Canada "across from Detroit" and Ford responded "Oh, Manitoba!" Actually Rob, it's your own province! 22 Minutes had a little map fun at his expense. Here is a screen shot of the Rob Ford's map of Canada via the Torontoist.


Thursday, July 13, 2006

MOTW #35

This is one of those maps that I posted a while back and didn't document properly. It shows countries in the Middle East, Asia and Oceania with the percentage of American youth who are able to locate them on a map. I made the map with data that I don't recall the origins of.