Sue hasn’t mentioned the Space Elevator Games yet this year so here goes nothing. The second year of the Space Elevator games can be described simply as impressive. The games are divided into two competitions: 1) tether strength and 2) climbing a tether. No one took home the cash ($200k) in either of the two [...]
Over at Wired News, Jennifer Granick has a nice article on how Web 2.0 apps, including mashups and online mapping, can help us get back to the essence of democratic government: “Though it may not be obvious, the road marks in this amorphous thing called Web 2.0 are political: grassroots participation, forging new connections, and [...]
Honestly, we just don’t know. Apparently the basis of most of our belief in the lack of life on Mars might be bad data. The Viking Mars Mission from 30 years ago flew close enough to Mars to see if it could remotely detect signs of life. Apparently scientists have reproduced the technology the Viking [...]
The town of Burnley Wood in the UK has become a test bed for a new system that will help local residents visualize how proposed development will change what their town looks like. The Augmented Reality Interactive Environment System (ARIES) consists of a 3D representation of what the area will look like following the planned [...]
As of today you can follow this link to the enhanced AAC version of the podcast on iTunes. While I am sure the MP3 version will always be more popular, I like being able to include images and links in the enhanced version. Of course you can still use the enhanced AAC RSS feed if [...]
Still catching up on the last couple of episodes of dl.tv. On the Oct 17 episode around 25 minutes in Patrick is “foiled by the mapping gods” when demoing Maps24 . They also talk a bit about local.live.com. Head out and check out the tech goodness.
This site has a nice photographic representation of The Parete Gaudenziana. So nice, to properly represent it, they decided to go with a 8.6 Gigapixel image! Of course, the Gigapixel Project has been documenting large photos for awhile, but I believe most of their work is in the single gigapixel range. This sucker is over [...]
There is an article in CNN today about Brian May from Queen. “He gave up his PHD studies in interplanetary dust to help form Queen but now, almost four decades on, he has come full circle to co-write “Bang! The Complete History of the Universe” with astronomers Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott. “To me it [...]
On the Oct 19 episode of Digital Life TV (www.dl.tv), Patrick Norton does a review of a dashmount Garmin GPS and the new Microsoft Streets and Trips and everyone uses many of the correct terms and phrases The overall take on the Garmin model they reviewed was pretty good, and at a $250 (US) price [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 66 October 22, 2006 Main Topic: Interview with Ed Parsons, CTO, Ordnance Survey Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
