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October 18, 2010Education, Events, general

USA Science and Engineering Festival

The USA Science and Engineering Festival expo is less than a week away, and here’s a commercial highlighting some of the great exhibits that will be featured:
October 17, 2010general, Podcast, Show Notes

A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 274

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 274 October 17, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on 2D v. 3D mapping Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click […]
October 16, 2010general, LBS, Social Networking, space (not spatial)

NASA and Gowalla team up for a nationwide scavenger hunt

For all of you out there who use Gowalla as your mobile location-based social sharing app, you’ll want to check out the new partnership between NASA and Gowalla that includes […]
October 15, 2010Cool Stuff, Gadgets, general, VirtualWorlds

Multi-Touch Spherical Display DIY

I want one! It’s a multi-touch spherical display that you can make for around $1,000. Oddly enough for such a high tech device, it’s got a bit of a steampunk […]
October 13, 2010general

The Legend of Lillian Alling

The Globe and Mail has a story about Lillian Alling, an adventuress who mapped out a route across North America to Siberia by foot and became a legend. According to […]
October 12, 2010General, general, Hardware, Human Geography

Google Funds Offsite Windfarms on East Coast

Any of our long-time readers/listeners can tell you I’m a HUGE fan of offshore windfarms. I think they flat out just make the most sense for sustainable energy production. Apparently […]
October 10, 2010general, Podcast, Show Notes

A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 273

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 273 October 10, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on the integration of social media and geospatial technologies Click to directly download MP3 Click to […]
October 7, 2010general

i can haz spatial charts

Don’t let the lolcats of Icanhascheezburger fool you, Graphjams showcases some pretty sophisticated presentations of spatial data. This post of Red Riding Hood, created as a Swedish Future Short in […]
October 6, 2010general

Map of Online Communities

From the ever wonderful XKCD.com
October 5, 2010general, Human Geography

Map of all the munitions dumped in Europe after WWI and WWII

OSPAR Commission has released a map showing the known locations where munitions where dumped following World War’s I and II. The way of thinking at the time was the safest way […]