Very cool, if true

Nope. It was just late when I wrote that.

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Quite tempted to do as the chap suggestes and stick copies of the map to a bunch of trees.

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So, Facebook is a bet on Zuckerberg. That sounds about a fair assessment of the situation.

IIRC the Murdochs have a not dissimilar share set up for News International – currently NI shares are trading at a premium to the the market value of the component parts – indicating that the market think that the Murdochs are a good bet

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This surely says more about me than about the author of the Meadows Map but I’ve worked out what makes me uneasy about the map.

Naming bits of ground *near where I live* after Super Mario characters has a significant lack of gravitas.

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I can't see the more mature members of Morningside or Bruntsfield adopting the nomenclature. But the area is packed with students...

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Perhaps my compatriots in Morningside and Bruntsfield could be offered a more acceptable set of names. Perhaps each segment named for an Alexander MacCall Smith character.

I predict a new Culture War.

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I propose a compromise - Culture vessel names.

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Beautiful.

Perhaps starting with the Grey Area.

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channelpenguin.livejournal.com

:-)

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Well played, sir!

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This Marchmont resident sees nothing wrong with the existing names and would rather the students learnt not to char the grass with their cheap little portable barbecues than fart around devising new names for things that already have them.

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Yes – not burning the grass would be top of my list for students to learn to do.

By the existing names do you mean the Mario et al set or are you aware of official names for each segment?

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I don't know of segment names but at least the Meadows (as opposed to the Links) has paths in radial patterns so you can always just give the names of two paths and be clear.

Or for that matter, you could say how many segments east/west of Middle Meadow Walk you are. That would make a lot more sense and not require people to memorize something arbitrary.

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A bit like the USian way of naming blocks – corner of 3rd and Bird.

I can hear the phone conversation now - I’m in the segment of Jawbone and Constitution – bring your BBQ and your bong.

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Or 'I'm in the Townswomen's Guild'...

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Very possibly my favourite road name ever.

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Meadows link is broken but if it's the one I think it is, Fergus posted it to Facebook last summer.

I thought it was pointless then and still do. The footpaths already have good names.

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Link is working for me.

And it's fine for roads to have names - that doesn't mean you can't name the areas too. Otherwise you have to refer to them as "the bit between road A and road B, before they cross road C" rather than "Yoshi".

(Not that I have any idea what the roads are called.)

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Because of the way the paths are laid out, you can uniquely describe any area with just two names.

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I'd need to look at where the names of the paths start/stop, but it looks from the map like the part between "Peach" and "Tennis" doesn't conform to that. Of course, this map hasn't named that part either, so it's hardly solving that problem...

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Yeah. It's stupid.

Another one I'll be burning along with that orchestral version of Alla Turca.

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As part of your War On Fun, I assume :->

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War on Things Which Piss on Perfectly Good Original Intentions.

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Yup, that's what I thought. "War on other people enjoying things in a manner that I don't."

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No, I think it's rather that I dislike what I perceive as an utter lack of respect for something that someone else made to be in a certain way. It really pisses me off for the Mozart, mildly irks me for the Meadows, and somewhere in between for fanfic.

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Aah. I don't believe that "being the first person to apply a name to something" deserves and respect, and I believe that culture and art are public property very shortly after they are created, certainly after the original author is dead.

Art and culture are there to be built on, played with, taken apart and turned into something new. The old thing will be there forever, but if we take away people's ability to use it as the foundation for their own creations then we remove its very vitality.

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I've no problem with building on things; I'm a big fan of Jacques Loussier for instance. But if Mozzy wanted an orchestral piece, he'd have written it that way: it was within his means. Also, it has pretty much zippo musical merit: it does nothing new and washes out the qualities of the original.

I like that the paths in the Meadows have names that reveal something of the history of the place. Taking characters from Mario and slapping them on: no.

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So yeah, it's about quality.

If someone, say, took the names of people who've frequented the Meadows over the last few centuries (Muriel Spark, pioneers of golf and football, and so on) and applied them to each green space perhaps even according to the activities that take place there, I think I'd probably approve. Not that I'd manage to remember them though.

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I don't think it's for you to approve or disapprove. Or rather, feel free to approve or disapprove if you want, but that doesn't give you the right to stop people - and I'd rather you didn't stomp on their fun in my journal.

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