Human Geography
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general, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Social Networking
Urbagrams – Mapping the social city
In order to investigate the idea of a social archipelago, the notion that our cities are “fragmented islands of social activity separated by large areas dedicated to commercial workplaces, flows […]
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Wedding Geography
Several crafty types have created homemade moving compass wedding invitations for their weddings including a heirloom quality one made of recycled chip board, a super fun interactive one posted on […]
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Facebook Discovers Places Exist
Alright, I admit I stretched a bit for that headline. However, the important bit is that Facebook has now added Places to it’s features. Places allow you to tag where […]
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general, Human Geography, Political Geography
US Broadband Rollout Receives Failing Grade, FCC Says
It’s been in several news sources, but I think ArsTechnica does the best job of discussing the issue. The short of it is that thousands of people are still without access to […]
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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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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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Global cost of data
I have three different web server accounts now-a-days, whittled down significantly over time once I found a provider I was happy with that supported multiple domains (I am afraid to […]
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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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