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• May 31, 2007Education, general, General

  The future of GIS technology

  Inspired by an old Numb3rs episode on schools and rfid, I started to see what GIS related technologies are being used in schools. According to the BBC, a U.K. based […]

• May 24, 2007general, General

  Batteries are odd

  Not on topic, but I am, as I type, running my laptop at 0% battery. Sure, a laptop might run at 0% for a couple of minutes, but I hit […]

• May 24, 2007general, General

  Angelina Jolie and Geographic Tattoos

  It’s all over the tabloid news. Angelina Jolie showing off her new tattoos – geographical map coordinates of her children’s country of birth. Does anyone want to check that they […]

• May 15, 2007general, General

  Earth from the Air

  If you haven’t seen them, the images from the exhibit ‘Earth from the Air’ are breathtaking. You can even send them as e-cards. “Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s mission was to create a […]

• May 15, 2007general, General

  Inspector Gadget’s Umbrella

  There are so many possibilities for the Pileus umbrella which has wireless internet, GPS and a Google Earth digital compass. The main one being, when will it do everything Inspector […]

• May 12, 2007general, General

  Sattellite Imagery vs. PDA Data

  An interesting BBC article on the the first international forum for indigenous peoples highlights the use of gis to preserve indigenous rainforest or pygmy communities. The DLH group which created […]

• May 1, 2007general, General

  World Without Oil – serious games and online social networking

  World Without Oil is an online project that is a little hard to describe…part serious game, part collaborative storytelling, part social network, part multimedia experience…..you get the picture. Basically, World […]

• April 30, 2007general, General

  IP address location

  IPligence has posted a map of IP addresses around the world that shows the density of IP addresses (and to some degree the number of internet users) around the world. […]

• April 18, 2007general, General

  When science fiction comes true

  Michael Crichton wrote a book a called Prey about nanotechnology gone wrong – a swarm of nanobots that function as a hive and try to Borg the human race. Now […]

• April 13, 2007general, General

  Tracking at work

  We usually think about tracking objects, more than we do about how they are actually tagged. This BBC picture documentary shows the process scientists went through to tag walruses for […]