Archive for October 26th, 2005





MIT World on LearnOutLoud.com

Oct 26th, 2005 | By Jesse

This is an interesting list of audio made available by MIT ranging over many areas of study. Check that out at MIT World on LearnOutLoud.com – Your Audio and Video Learning Resource. If you would like to view some of the content as video head over to the MITWorld site at http://mitworld.mit.edu/.



How Google Earth Works – from howstuffworks.com

Oct 26th, 2005 | By Sue

howstuffworks.com has posted an article on Google Earth and how it works (of course). While it’s just the basics that most of us are already pretty familiar with by now, it’s a nice introduction to Google Earth’s functionality and data. Via Digg.com



First student-built satellite to launch on Thursday

Oct 26th, 2005 | By Sue

The SSETI Express, a satellite designed and built by 100 students from 10 universities in Europe will launch from Russia on Thursday. The satellite is equipped with a camera that will take images of the Earth. Although the satellite is mainly a demonstration, the European Space Agency, which funded the project, sees this launch as [...]



Planet Geospatial

Oct 26th, 2005 | By Jesse

I just realized that we have not actually blogged James Fee’s Planet Geospatial. We mentioned it on the podcast, thought we had here…I was wrong. So… Planet Geospatial is a web based RSS aggregator that pulls together all of the geospatial technology related blogs that James has uncovered (he offers up his OPML file for [...]