Author: Frank
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general, General, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography
Don’t Go North, It Will Take Longer!
Or so people believe, studies show. Wired News is reporting a couple of experimental studies that suggest people think “North” is a harder route to travel than “South”, even when […]
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general, LBS, Social Networking
Scott Kurtz can predict the future! And there’s Starbucks discounts
If you read pvponline.com (a great webcomic, by the way), you’ll recall a story line where a character uses a fictional Foursquare like service to become the mayor of a coffee […]
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It’s all about the spatial thinking…
From the most excellent comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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The Biggest Game Worlds
Years and years ago, Jesse, Sue, and I had a discussion about the size of game worlds. The image represents a pretty impressive rundown of the sizes of various current […]
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general, Hardware, Human Geography, Physical Geography
First US Offshore Windfarm
Anyone who talks to me about energy will quickly learn I’m a HUGE fan of offshore wind energy. So this news item in the New York Times caught my eye […]
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general, Hardware, LBS, Software
Internet Operating System?
A couple of days ago, Tim O’Reilly published an interesting piece entitled “The State of the Internet Operating System” I’m not going to say a whole lot about it, other […]
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Data, Environmental, general, Physical Geography
Gulf Stream not Slowing Down
Apparently Dennis Quaid was wrong… the gulf stream is not slowing down as some climate change models (and over the top eco-adventure movies) predict. Apparently the belief this might happen […]
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Data, General, Human Geography
Want Google’s Gigabit Network in Your Town?
Looks like you’ll have to get in line with the other 1,100 or so towns that have applied. Apparently there is a LOT of demand for 1gb fibre network. The […]
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General, general, Human Geography
Daylight Savings Time Uses More Energy
If you ask me, this should go into the “duh” file, but I’m glad someone did the numbers to prove it – Daylight Savings Time uses more energy. Indiana recently […]
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