Author: Frank

December 7, 2006general, Hardware, Physical Geography

Breakthrough in Solar Cell Efficiency

The EETimes is reporting that there has been a major breakthrough in the efficiency of solar cells. Up until now, solar cells have only operated at between 12-18% efficient. Through […]
December 7, 2006general, Software

Monitor Grid Computing Around the World

The Gird Particle Physics project has a neat feature that lets you monitor grid computing in real time around the world. Basically, in order to do the calculations needed for […]
December 4, 2006general, Human Geography

IP Addresses Per Capita

The good folks over at Modern Life is Rubish have posted a fairly interesting map. They’ve figured out which countries have the most IP address per person and which have […]
November 30, 2006general, General

9/11 Sites, Then and Now

National Geographic News has a short but interesting photo gallery detailing different sites from 9/11, both on that day and now. The shots are the same shot from the same […]
November 17, 2006general, LBS, WebMapping

Click a Map, Call that Business

Min Zeng over at the Google Maps team posted an interesting blog post/feature announcement. They’ve added a feature where you can store your phone number in your google account, search […]
November 15, 2006general, Human Geography

World Map of Happiness

How happy is your country? To help answer that question, psychologist Adrian White of the University of Leicester has produced a map (link does not contain any maps) that ranks […]
November 8, 2006general, General

Interesting Statement on Elections Mapping

As Sue and Jesse noted yesterday, I was conspicuously absent from Very Spatial since I was obsessively consuming election coverage all day yesterday. This morning while reading Salon’s (WARNING: requires […]
November 4, 2006general, WebMapping

How is the US Congress on Technology?

Ever wondered how different Congresspersons vote on tech issues? Well the good folks at CNET have put together this handy, dandy web map showing just that! We missed this one […]
November 3, 2006Data, general, GeographyAwareness

UK Intellectual Property Philosophy Should Change, Report Says

Although this isn’t strictly geo based, I think the topic is important enough to anyone with information (A.K.A Data) to mention. The folks over at ars technica have an interesting […]
October 25, 2006general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

Life on Mars…..?

Honestly, we just don’t know. Apparently the basis of most of our belief in the lack of life on Mars might be bad data. The Viking Mars Mission from 30 […]