As geographers, I know everyone out there is thinking, “I get the the home buying industry in the US is imploding like a black hole, but I still am having trouble understanding what’s going on.” Fear not dear reader, the wonderful people at the Federal Reserve have given us – Dynamic Maps of Nonprime Mortgage
Population Growth in NOLA
Continuing my Twitter focus on my trip to New Orleans I saw this great bit of news on growth statistics. Apparently the two fastest growing county populations in the US are St. Bernard’s and Orleans parishes. Check out Episode 141 for my take on visiting New Orleans (go, spend your money and have a good
Go Green or Go To Hell. Do Not Pass Go, Do not Collect $200
The Vatican has released a new set of mortal sins, one of which includes polluting the environment. Mortal sins, for those not aware of Catholic dogma, are sins which get you a “go directly to hell” card unless you repent. The new batch of sins have a more social aspect to them, including becoming obscenely
Does Daylight Savings Time Help?
Not according to a study conducted at the University of California-Santa Barbara and reported recently in the Wall Street Journal. The prevailing wisdom of Daylight Savings Time is that having more time in the afternoon with sun means we’ll leave the lights off longer. That might be true, but it also happens to mean we
Map of Popular Social Sites Throughout the World
The map is in French, so the details are a bit hazy if you don’t speak the language (which I don’t). However, if you’ve ever wondered how popular various social networking sites were around the world, it’s a map you need to see. To me, at their base functionality of socially networking people, I don’t
Can Cell Phones Predict Traffic?
That’s the question Nokia set out to find the answer to yesterday. They equipped 100 students with GPS and software equipped Nokia phones and had them drive a 10 mile stretch of road all day. The data was sent back to a central server to analysis traffic patterns. Nokia hopes to be able to create
The Geography of Recession
The Economist has an interesting article about the geography of recession. As they call it in the article, the ‘R’ word is being bandied about more and more in the US, but we tend to examine it as a country wide phenomena. The article points out that these things happen in a much more localized
Regional Pizza Styles
Anyone who’s been an avid pizza eater in the US knows there is a great deal of variation across the country on pizza. Most people know the difference between Chicago Deep Dish and New York style, but could you pick a New Haven style pie out of a lineup? Neither can I. Luckily for us
Highlighting a few geospatial podcasts
I am, as usual, a bit behind on the blogs and podcasts. But as I am catching up (aka procrastinating writing) I wanted to highlight a couple of podcasts that have come out recently. Directions Podcast (Jan 17) – focuses on Agile development ESRI Speaker Series (Jan 16) – Interview with authors of Placing History
US Party Conventions
With the 2008 Presidential season in full swing, I thought I’d take a moment to post a couple of links to how all of this works. I know it can be rather confusing for people in the US as to the delegate system for picking the two parties candidates, so it has to be downright
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