Author: Barb

October 26, 2011general

Halloween Maps

Halloween is a holiday that has often been associated with maps… treasure maps, spooky house plans, escape routes, and trick-or-treat routes. I think it is also the holiday with the […]
October 21, 2011general

Get your free (zombie) preparedness guide

You have probably already heard about the U.S. Center For Disease Control’s unique outreach effort to educate the public about being prepared for a large scale emergency. They used the […]
October 14, 2011Contest, LostInTheVirtualFog, VirtualEnvironments

First Annual Sketch Up Halloween Challenge

Sketch Up has announced their first annual Halloween Challenge. You can pick three categories: 1:Jack 0’Lantern, 2: Haunted House, 3: Both together. You need to fill out a challenge submission […]
September 24, 2011General

The Zombie Map of the World

In the spirit of putting up maps this week, The Guardian has an article about a fun Zombie Map of the World created by the Oxford University’s Internet Institute. Class3Outbreak […]
September 13, 2011Education, Environmental

Tracking Happy Feet

National Public Radio (NPR) has been closely following the story of Happy Feet, the penguin who got off course and ended up in New Zealand. They recently posted a heart […]
August 17, 2011Navigation

Team Garmin-Cervelo

I get to make a cheesy statement here about how Garmin-Cervelo race team has found their way to the top in August with Garmin, but I think the picture on […]
August 11, 2011Physical Geography

EarthScope’s new home

EarthScope is an NSF program that, “that deploys thousands of seismic, GPS, and other geophysical instruments to study the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the processes […]
August 3, 2011Cool Stuff

Group Me and Group Texting

The Wall Street Journal has an article on GroupMe, an Android application that allows multiple users to text together at the same time as a group. According to the article, […]
July 8, 2011general

Investing in Farmville

The Globe and Mail has an interesting Vox article on investing in Zynga, which has created free online social media games such as Farmville on Facebook versus other social media […]
June 28, 2011WebMapping

HealthMap

The Globe and Mail has an interesting article today on a site called HealthMap, created by epidemiologists at the Children’s Hospital Boston which uses participatory GIS and other information mined […]