Human Geography
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments
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 […]
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Gadgets, general, Human Geography, Navigation
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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general, Human Geography, Programming/Dev
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 […]
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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 […]
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Tools for Eating Locally
It’s a new year with the requisite resolutions! Being that “eating healthy” is a common resolution (and a personal one for both Barb and I), I thought this link listing […]
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