Sep. 22nd, 2011

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My local Rymans has been selling end-of-line pack of ten “magnetic name badges” which turn out to be ten plastic name-tag holders (fairly useless) plus ten magnetic clips consisting of two 1cm width neodymium magnets encased in plastic and linked by a plastic strip – the idea is that the magnets are on either side of e.g. a pocket and hold the badge in place without damaging the cloth. It’s easy to take them apart and get the magnets out - in fact, they sometimes come apart spontaneously, which I suspect is why they are being remaindered. Another reason may be that they are strong enough to damage magnetic credit card strips, interfere with some medical implants, etc. The bottom line is you get twenty fairly strong Neodymium magnets for £2.99

I got two packs for work; don't know if other branches are selling them, but if you want neodymium magnets it may be worth a look. I haven't seen them this cheap elsewhere.
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This one is based on an image generated by a freeware program called Alternative World Map Creator which has a few problems on my PC but seems to do a reasonably good job of creating the sort of image I want. I've edited the image to replace some ice with sea, make Greenland green, and add the equator.

My reason for looking at this is that I remembered I used to have a similar DOS program that generated vector-graphics maps; can't find it anywhere now, but this seems just about suitable for my needs, and won't require me to re-draw the map to get around watermarking etc.

big map )

Any thoughts?

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