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October 5, 2006general, General

PSP, PS3, and Sony’s Global Mapping System Vision

So, I didn’t get a chance to post this until now, but I wanted to say a few words about Ken Kutaragi’s Sony keynote address a week ago at the […]
October 4, 2006Gadgets, general, General

GIS and multi-core computers

I saw the posts by Rob and James a couple of weeks ago about multicore and 64 bit but was too sick to kick in at the time. Now that […]
October 3, 2006General, general, GeographyBlogs

EarthSim for the classroom

For those educators out there in the audience, you might be interested in VirtualGlobes promotional give-away of a one-year subscription to EarthSim. I wasn’t aware that EarthSim existed until yesterday, […]
October 2, 2006general, General

Netflix offers $1 million prize for a better way to recommend movies

For those of you who don’t know, Netflix is the online DVD movie rental company that now sport 5.2 million subscribers. They are looking for ways to improve their movie […]
October 2, 2006general, General

Will mean more later

This won’t mean much to you until you hear the difference for yourself, but Gigavox, the business arm of IT Conversations, has released a GREAT little tool called Levelator that […]
September 25, 2006Education, General, general

Royal Society journal archives free online for 2 months only

The journal archives of the Royal Society in the UK, which has been promoting scientific research for over 300 years, are now available online, and access to the archives will […]
September 23, 2006general, General

Maps as Art – photographs by Abelardo Morell

One of our readers, Elaine, emailed us about a cool exhibition of photography by Abelardo Morell that she visited recently. Here is a link to examples of Morell’s work, including […]
September 21, 2006general, General

Rasterize yourself

Finally, a home decorating use for plotters. This cool tool, The Rasterbator lets you create huge rasterized images from any picture. They give some great examples including some great uses […]
September 12, 2006general, General

Comair Crash and mapping

According to CNN, the Comair flight was using an older map of the airport when it crashed. It was a tragic and unfortunate accident which highlights the many issues involved […]
September 12, 2006Education, General, general

Coolest Periodic Table ever

I am continuing my cool stuff posts with the most amazing 3D periodic table of elements. Since the earth and everything on it are made of up these elements, I […]