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August 24, 2006general, General

My first post: Crop Circles and GIS

Crop circles might be made by aliens (or creative people with long boards) but they are documented using GIS. Some crop circle sightings on the web include a firefox crop […]
August 21, 2006general, General

Some Fries With That Latte….?

Here’s an interesting map put out by Princeton University. It shows the preliferation of Starbucks and of Micky D’s throught the world. The Starbucks section is particularly interesting as it […]
August 15, 2006avsp, general, General

Late night updates

Just a few updates on the site tonight. The podcast page is up-to-date, the calendar has had a couple of additions but keep an eye out for even more events […]
August 14, 2006general, General

Talking about home and trying out Windows Live Writer

OK, so as you might know we are all at West Virginia University. In the near future we will be moving from our historic home in White Hall on the […]
August 10, 2006general, General

Note to those flying out of the ESRI UC

And of course anyone else who is flying, keep in mind that the FAA has apparently banned taking liquids on to flights including beverages, hair gels, and lotion. We aren’t […]
July 27, 2006General, general

Fame or infamy

Glen recently suggested that there are no famous GIS bloggers. Well, my parents think I am quite famous…or is that infamous… OK, fine! but I have met someone famous (though […]
July 14, 2006general, General

World’s Largest Photo

What is possibly the world’s largest photograph was created on Wednesday at the former El Toro US Marine Base in California. The non-profit Legacy Project used a hangar at the […]
July 13, 2006avsp, general, General

We have internet, yeah

Even though Verizon said it wouldn’t be up for another week, when I plugged in my modem the connection was live and stable. We should be through the majority of […]
July 8, 2006general, General

BBC News talks about new graphics

While this BBC article speaks specifically about how Windows Vista is offloading much of the graphics work to the video card in the high-end versions of the eventually coming OS […]
July 7, 2006general, General

Nature’s top 50 science blogs

Nature is hosting a list of 50 science blogs based on technorati ranking. There are no Geography or geospatial specific blogs on the list, but it does include a few […]