I don’t know how I managed to miss this last week, but the Photosynth team has released a Firefox plugin for the Photosynth tech preview. I just tried it out, since I am a regular Firefox user, and it worked great for me. So, if you haven’t tried the Photosynth preview yet, especially if it [...]
You’ve probably already read or seen the news about archaeologists’ discovery and excavation of a neolithic village site at Durrington Walls (site of the world’s largest henge) on the Salisbury plain near Stonehenge. Still, it’s pretty cool that they’ve finally got some signifcant remains of domestic sites that may have used by the people who [...]
Field and Stream has this rather whimsical little quiz about survival in the wild. You are the world’s unluckiest hunter, lost and alone in the woods with little supplies or equipment. Can you survive? There are some tough wilderness questions in there, so give it your best… Unfortunately, I was confronted with my two worst [...]
Today on Directions on the News there was an item about how VRCO has released their next version of Conduit for Google Earth. The Conduit software is a translator that allows COTS software (OpenGL based) to pushed through a graphics cluster to be projected onto multiple screens. WVU tasked FakeSpace/VRCO to implement Conduit for ArcScene [...]
The AAG, UCGIS, URISA, GITA, and the GISCI have teamed up to create a rebuttal to MAPPS’ stance in MAPPS vs US. You can find the details or donate to support their legal costs at the AAG website. We are trying to get a few interviews from these organizations prior to the pending court date. [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 80 January 28, 2007 Main Topic: Developing a geospatial association Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Yeah, I was catching up on the ViaVirtualEarth blog, and they mentioned a new mashup called Blawg and, of course, I had to check it out. I mean, lawyers blogging….and podcasting……what could be stranger and yet potentially amusing? Blawg’s front page gives a directory of law-related blogs (there are currently 1222, with 886 active) and [...]
New York City distributes approximately 1.5 million condoms each month in regular wrappers, but is still faced with large numbers of people who are contracting STDs and HIV. In an effort to increase free condom usage in the city, officials have decided to distribute an “official” New York City condom, complete with snazzy design for [...]
Imagine being asked to form a discussion group with your friends to decide what life should be like in 2025? Okay, now imagine that with no Star Trek references. Science Horizons UK is a government group asking UK citizens to do that just and submit their information to the government. Its a year long project [...]
This BBC article on the future of mobile phones in Europe is interesting because it talks about technologies that are used in Japan and the U.S. such as “”buddy finders” that alert you when a friend is in the same area or systems that track your morning run to show you how many kilometres you [...]
