2008 Apr 30, 10:51TwittEarth displays where twitters are coming from on a globe. Neat looking.
twitter 3d mashup world visualization via:kris.kowal 2008 Mar 7, 3:26
Two weekends ago it was actually sunny and kind of warm so Sarah and I went down to Spud Fish and Chips and Juanita Beach Park. We ate fish and chips on the dock. I took a few pictures and this
time actually put some geographical information on Flickr so now I've got a map of my tiny fish and chips journey. On the map click on the floating marks to view the associated photos.
Flickr provides access to the geo data associated with your photos via GeoRSS feeds. And Google Maps displays
GeoRSS feed content on their maps allowing you even to edit the data but doesn't appear to let you easily export the GeoRSS. Live Maps does the inverse, allowing you to create and export GeoRSS data but not import it. I'd like both please. Oh well.
map photo personal fish-and-chips juanita-beach 2008 Mar 4, 11:01Google's My Maps: "And now, this morning, Google has updated its Maps product yet again, adding "My Maps", user-generated collections of annotated placemarks, lines, and polygons."
google map microsoft live georss blog article 2008 Mar 4, 10:57Live Maps supports exporting collections you make in Live Maps as a GeoRSS feed. That's neat, but what I want to do is add my flickr GeoRSS feed to a collection in Live Maps...
georss live microsoft maps blog article 2008 Feb 15, 4:29FTA: "The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth."
via:swannman neal-stephenson 2007 Nov 12, 5:13Blog from Dan Catt. Dan (FTA) "... works for Flickr. He also works on Maps. Sometimes he does both of these at the same time."
flickr map mashup visualization gps geo gis earth dan-catt 2007 Nov 6, 8:06TED talk on ten ways the world could end that no one thinks about.
astronomy video ted humor science earth technology stephen-petranek 2007 Oct 21, 5:52From USGS is Earthquake info in RSS form.
data gis earthquake rss science usgs government 2007 Aug 12, 2:50Thanks to
Netflix I've been able to enjoy several movies that I'd never heard of.
Brick is a classic PI film set in a modern high school. Its fun figuring out which high school students correspond to which film noir archetypes.
Primer is a sci-fi movie but it doesn't focus on action or effects. Its like watching an excellent Twilight Zone episode. I hate to describe this any
further for fear of giving something away.
The Amazing Screw-On Head is an animated version of the
one shot comic. It feels like
the 1800s precursor to the
The Venture Bros. and stars Screw-On Head, a steam-punk robot head thing and Abe Lincoln's top spy for occult
matters.
The Quiet Earth is the movie version of the book about a man who awakes one day to find himself alone(... or is he?) It was made in the 80s and in
Australia but don't hold that against it.
scifi primer movie amazing screw-on head personal netflix brick the quiet earth 2007 May 13, 12:16My parents and grandmother came to visit the weekend before this current weekend, starting Friday May 4th. They arrived via their new motor-home which is quite the machine. Of course its my parents
motor-home so its very well decorated inside including drapes and mini-chandelier. I didn't have a memory card for my camera at the time but I'm sure my parents will put up photos on their
new blog dedicated to their motor-home at some point in the future.
At any rate, they parked the motor-home in an
RV park in Issaquah so that Friday night I drove over to them and we ate at the conveniently
closely located
Pogachas. The next day they came over and I showed them the various cool looking things my computer connected to my flat
screen TV can do. This includes
Vista Media Center showing my photos from recent trips and
Google Earth mapping out our respective homes and my recent trips (and Paris). Additionally, we played Wii which, unsurprisingly based on anecdotal evidence
from varied sources across the Internet, was a seeming hit. Mom broke records playing bowling with my dad and I, Dad did an excellent job fishing, and Grandma's slow but steady win's the race
approach to cow racing worked very well.
The next day I drove them to Seattle and we walked around Pike's Place. My parents made dinner that night at my place which was very good and made my apartment actually smell like cooked food. Also,
we exchanged Christmas gifts. For the past two years I've flown back to my parents' house for Christmas and ended up with gifts I couldn't take with me in both directions. Those I left at their house
they drove up and I was able to give them the ones I left at my place. They started the drive back the next day. I really enjoyed seeing them here.
motorhome family personal nontechnical 2007 Apr 15, 4:06For the past several months I've seen various articles suggesting why bees are disappearing. At first I thought this was another crackpot's article that somehow made it onto digg.com. But they keep
coming and sometimes from credible sources. After the article I saw tonight I thought I should go back and put together the various articles I've read on this topic. Bees may be disappearing due to
pesticides,
new organic pathogens,
genetically modified crops,
mobile
phones, or
climate change. Apparently,
the US hasn't been keeping accurate counts of its
bees so we don't know the extent of the situation. There's an
interview with Maryann Frazier, M.S., of the Dept.
of Etymology at Penn State and a
congressional hearing on the matter.
I know this is all very serious and could signal the end of our ecosystem as we know it, but I can't help throwing in the following links as well. The bees could be
hiding in this Florida couple's kitchen. Or perhaps they're laying low while being
trained by the government to fight terrorism. Or
they're hiding in extra dimensions that we mere humans can't perceive (I'm fairly certain that's what this
article is suggesting. Really. Read it. Seriously. Its awesome.)
roundup personal bees nontechnical 2007 Apr 11, 9:22Short tiny travel guide for Santa Cruz, CA. Found via Turn Here in Google Earth. All places mentioned in the video are great and I totally vouche for them.
geo video santa-cruz coffee food saturn-cafe 2007 Apr 11, 9:12Show Flickr photos on Google Earth. Its pretty neat. Light on features though like no user selection.
googel map flickr photos geo 2007 Apr 11, 5:23Historical maps available for Google Earth
map mashup google history visualization reference research via:swannman 2007 Apr 8, 11:26A collaborative interactive map of the sky (as seen from Earth).
astronomy map earth science visualization collaboration 2007 Apr 8, 9:05Geotagging used in your delicious tags so you can plot your delicious links on Google Earth.
make article blog delicious google geo tag tagging hack mashup map 2007 Apr 4, 1:23Home page of the pAved earth Internet radio station.
alternative music radio ska paved-earth 2007 Apr 4, 1:23the pAved earth is an Internet radio station playing crock alternative progressive indie and ska.
music ska alternative paved-earth radio 2007 Mar 22, 12:01MapCruncher lets you put different geographical data together onto the MS Live Maps tool.
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