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  • Woot is the word

    Back in 2005 Podcast hit the dictionaries, but two years later we are truly entering the digital age as Meriam-Webster will be adding the word W00T (I prefer the double […]

  • G-I-Yes

    Our good buddy Rick Lawson over at ESRI sent us all a lovely little YouTube video/song – G-I-Yes. The folks down in Austin put this together for GIS Day it […]

  • Beyond Monopoly: Silk Escape Map Scarves

    By now, most people have read the very neat story from CNN via Mental Floss , Boing Boing and the Wall Street Journal about how regional silk escape maps were […]

  • World Map Wall Mural

    Keeping in the spirit of anyday gifts here is a neat $100 13 foot x 18 foot world map mural that shows “Major cities, World Time Zone, Land Elevation and […]

  • Tea Towels

    Finding the license plate map of the U.S.A made me want to look up another great nostalgic geo gift: souvenier map tea towels. Here are some recent tea towel maps […]

  • More Geo…rgous Gifts

    It seems like once you start looking geo gifts are everywhere. Here is a topology ring which “encircle the finger like hills and valleys circumnavigating the globe” also in the […]

  • Some Geo-themed Holiday gift ideas

    It has been snowing here since early this morning, we only made it in to the lab about a half hour ago and are basically just waiting around for snow […]

  • Wish someone a Mappy Birthday!

    While browsing the Web for those last few Christmas gifts, I came across these cool cards from Uncommon Goods. They’re birthday cards that are made from recycled topo maps, and […]

  • Geographic questions on TV

    Tonight’s episode of Corner Gas that aired on WGN talked about map accuracy, scale, etc…and as usual was quite amusing. It was Episode 409: “Outside Joke”. Spoiler…the culprit was a […]

  • Broadband Census Bill approved by House Committee

    The proposed Broadband Census Bill (H.R. 3919) was approved on Tuesday by the US House Energy and Commerce Committee. The main goal of the legislation is to collect data about […]

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