Author: Barb

• May 6, 2010general

  Visualizations are beautiful

  The second edition of ‘The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide To The World’s Most Consequential Trivia” by David McCandless is out soon. He also has a website called “Information is […]

• April 6, 2010general

  Making Copies

  Think back to when you needed to share maps before the Internet. Did that give you the heebie jeebies? Now think back to when you needed to share maps before […]

• March 24, 2010General

  Where’s Sindy

  So I was online last night trying to locate bulk orders of Altoids tins (Don’t Ask) and stumbled across the Where’s Sindy game on the Altoid’s website a game they […]

• March 22, 2010general

  Solid Waste Management Careers

  I recently attended the The 25th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management held in Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. If you are a geospatial professional looking for an interesting and […]

• March 6, 2010general

  Live in a Movie Set

  Oscar time is here and several news sources have stories about vacationing in your favorite movie setting. The Telegraph UK article “Oscars 2010: film location holidays” explores locations of this […]

• March 1, 2010general

  Should Orienteering Be An Olympic Sport?

  Spring is a great time to start a new hobby or practice a very old one – walking. A Telegraph UK’s article on old-fashioned map reading skills discusses orienteering versus […]

• February 10, 2010general

  Great Backyard Bird Count

  It’s that time of year again. If you are in North America are you ready to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count February 12 – 15th? Each year “citizen […]

• January 29, 2010Social Networking, VirtualEnvironments

  Victorian 3-D

  Before there was Avatar and even before Fisher-Price Viewmaster, there was stereoscopy or stereo photographs that presented scenes in life-like three dimensions similar to a Viewmaster. A recent book on […]

• January 27, 2010general

  65 Years of View-Master

  It’s hard to believe that Fisher-Price View-Master reels are over 65 years old and kids are still playing with them. Even with the advent of hi-tech toys for kids, the […]

• January 21, 2010general

  Cloudy with a Chance of Graphics

  I found an interesting RFP today from NOAA that asks for research into “the effectiveness of current operational products, including graphics and uncertainty information”. Essentially it is asking a geospatial […]