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• September 13, 2010general, General, Human Geography

  Visualizing Average Days Worked and Vacation by Country

  I’m a big fan of infographics, so much so that I sometimes find seeing spatial information organized in an non-spatial way (ie a map) to be the clearest way to […]

• September 9, 2010General

  Research or Teach…that is the question

  Apparently it has been a busy couple of days in the UK with the Business Secretary and Science Minister having a go at academic research spending and the shift over […]

• August 28, 2010General, Human Geography

  Wedding Geography

  Several crafty types have created homemade moving compass wedding invitations for their weddings including a heirloom quality one made of recycled chip board, a super fun interactive one posted on […]

• August 23, 2010General, general, Navigation

  Just Give Me the Address…

  I know, another xkcd comic, but I just couldn’t resist:

• August 18, 2010general, General

  Highway Engineers

  In between class sessions on my first day as an Assistant Professor at Coastal Carolina, I ran across this great comic from xkcd…and had to post it because I think […]

• June 28, 2010Environmental, Gadgets, general, General

  Light Bulbs to Get New Labels

  The FTC is mandating that in 2011, light bulbs get new labels that emphasis luminosity more so that watts.  If you take a look at the labels shown at the link, it features quit […]

• June 15, 2010General, general, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography

  Don’t Go North, It Will Take Longer!

  Or so people believe, studies show.  Wired News is reporting a couple of experimental studies that suggest people think “North” is a harder route to travel than “South”, even when […]

• March 30, 2010Data, General, Human Geography

  Want Google’s Gigabit Network in Your Town?

  Looks like you’ll have to get in line with the other 1,100 or so towns that have applied.  Apparently there is a LOT of demand for 1gb fibre network.  The […]

• March 24, 2010General

  Where’s Sindy

  So I was online last night trying to locate bulk orders of Altoids tins (Don’t Ask) and stumbled across the Where’s Sindy game on the Altoid’s website a game they […]

• March 23, 2010General, general, Human Geography

  Daylight Savings Time Uses More Energy

  If you ask me, this should go into the “duh” file, but I’m glad someone did the numbers to prove it – Daylight Savings Time uses more energy.  Indiana recently […]