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links for 2009-10-06

October 6, 2009

The Globe and Mail | British Columbia Relief Map Sees New Life As Olympic Security Tool I like this sentiment from a commenter: "The Challenger should be appreciated for its beauty and what it represents – BC's triumphalistic resource exploitation era. Preserve it, display it – but make sure our emergency services are using the [...]

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links for 2009-09-30

September 30, 2009

International Travel with the iPhone | Squeak of the Week Description of experience traveling with the iPhone, tips for reducing international charges, and recommendations for using your American iPhone in Europe. (tags: travel iPhone tips europe international telephone) Tweet

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links for 2009-09-28

September 28, 2009

Geography Markup Language (GML) (tags: ogc GML geography) SmartGrids: European Technology Platform Increasing the efficiency, safety and reliability of European electricity transmission and distribution systems and removing obstacles to the large-scale integration of distributed and renewable energy sources. (tags: energy ogcdoc SmartGrid) Tweet

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links for 2009-09-10

September 10, 2009

What Would Happen if the Earth Stopped Spinning? | GIS and Science (tags: science geography geophysics maps) Joe Wilson is Your Pre-Existing Condition Yeah, we should be talking about what Obama said, but this is just too damned funny. I love the internet. (tags: politics humor government) How to Decorate a Room With a Green [...]

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links for 2009-09-03

September 3, 2009

Inhabitat | First Ever Apple-Licensed iPod Solar Charger Case Unveiled (tags: iPhone toys technology environment) My Essential WordPress Plugins | BrandonSavage.net (tags: wordpress plugins development) Tweet

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links for 2009-09-01

September 1, 2009

Wikipedia | Gretna F.C. What do you know? Gretna is the name of a Scottish town and its now defunct football (soccer) club. (tags: scotland football theotherfootball NewOrleans) Fantasy Football Librarian Looks like I will be yanked back into D's league this year and I have to be prepared. (tags: football sports NFL) Tweet

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links for 2009-08-31

August 31, 2009

Diagrammr Create and share diagrams by writing sentences. (tags: visualization web tools graphics design language) GeoCommons GeoCommons delivers visual analytics through maps. We make it possible to view massive amounts of data, make decisions and solve problems with no prior training or experience using traditional mapping tools. (tags: maps GIS visualization mapping data mashup) Megan [...]

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links for 2009-08-26

August 26, 2009

The Atlantic | How American Health Care Killed My Father “After the needless death of his father, [David Goldhill], a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is a system, he argues, that is not worth preserving [...]

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links for 2009-08-17

August 17, 2009

sketchyphysics Physics plugin for Sketchup (tags: physics google 3D games modeling science simulation software plugins) Slashdot | Simple, Portable Physics Simulations "I want to 'lure' my nephews/nieces towards Science and Engineering (to whatever extent that's possible, in the age of consoles). To that end, I have coded simple physics simulations, like falling snow, exploding fireworks, [...]

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links for 2009-08-14

August 14, 2009

Ørsted’s Compass Hans Christian Ørsted, born today in 1777, discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism in a very simple experiment that is shown in this interactive tutorial. No Ørsted, probably no internet. (tags: physics education science) AccuWeather | Second Warmest July On Record Globally, According To NASA Ohio and several other Midwestern states set [...]

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