I didn’t get a chance to blog this earlier because of our slow internet connection in San Juan, but NASA’s 2 new cloud monitoring satellites, CloudSat and Calipso, were successfully launched Friday morning after some difficulties they delayed their originial launch date. What’s cool about these satellites is that they are carrying instruments that can [...]
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This is a nice mashup for the politically minded out there. You input your zipcode and it spits back a map showing political contrabutions to either of the two major parties during the 2004 Presidential election. It’s rather interesting to see how much was garnered by each party in your area. We warned, it looks [...]
We just finished up our session (3 papers all ended up in the same general session) here at the SAA conference in San Juan. Sue kicked things off with geovisualization and historic archaeology. I kidnapped a presentation that our professor/co-author couldn’t make it to present and talked about the ‘googlization of archaeology’ which I will [...]
CNN is now reporting that a US Senate inquiry has concluded that FEMA cannot be fixed, and should be abolished in its current form. A report will be released on Thursday detailing the inqiry’s findings and recommendations. Of course, this will most likely touch off a lengthly debate, and nothing’s probably going to happen in [...]
The next stop on this spring’s whirlwind tour is sunny San Juan, Puerto Rico, where we will be attending the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology and presenting papers on GIS and geospatial technologies in archaeology. We hope to have some updates for you from the conference, and a wrap-up at the end [...]
Google’s Summer of Code 2006 is program that gives “student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several hundred projects over a three-month period.” It’s the 2nd year for [...]
Gasbuddy.com has put together an interactive map of gas prices by county around the US. Just right click on the county you want to check out. Of course, it might just make you sad…… Via Digg
It is all Frank’s fault. We were sitting around, recording an episode of the podcast, and the next thing you know a Queen reference was tossed out leading to me contemplating “We are the champions”…next thing you know the idea for our new t-shirt that declares to all that “We will, We will, Map you!” [...]
Just thought I’d do a quick post on Earth Day. Hope some of you are out there enjoying events that are going on all over the US and other countries. There are tons of different events, but here are a couple that are a little out of ordinary: In upstate New York, state biologists celebrated [...]
