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One Small Step

July 20, 2009

Look at the Moon in Google Earth – Available Now! Tweet

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My First Review Of Twinity

July 7, 2009

Just as I was griping about the lack of anything interesting to write about in the wide world of visualization, Twinity got a big chunk of change to back its claim of developing 3d digital cities.  What is Twinity?  (No, it’s not Neo‘s girlfriend’s Twitter presence.)  What the hell is a 3d digital city?  And [...]

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With Respect To

July 1, 2009

It’s July 1st, so I’ve been back in the Midwest for, what, three months? A quarter of a year. After fits and starts, travel and more travel and D gone for half of each month, we are beginning to own our home, home-ownership and the giant yard that always needs tending.  While D mows, I [...]

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Writing At VizWorld

June 6, 2009

As you all know, I love everything to do with the earth, from mantle rocks to surface maps, and computer visualization.  With its varied interests and equally disparate readership, VatulBlog doesn’t seem like the place to post about my scientific interests, especially if I want to generate consistent discussion.  So, when Randall Hand, senior editor [...]

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Where 2.0 Impressions

May 20, 2009

This week, I’m at the Where2.0 conference in San Jose, California. It’s all about making maps, now enabled by the web and mobile devices.  If you really want to know what’s going on, search #where20 in Twitter.  I’m surprised we’re not a trending topic given the internet-choking number of tweets coming out of here.  What [...]

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CGSociety & NVidia Announce Winners Of NVArt Competition

May 13, 2009

The winners of the fourth NVArt Surreal Competition (Thanks, D!) Looking at the pictures, I wondered, “Why do all of these look like Jacek Yerka‘s work?” until I read the premise of the competition (not a big fan of reading the recipe first). … artists were invited to recreate their most imaginative fantasies in the [...]

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Wishlist Item #1: Globe4D

April 12, 2009

Globe4D from Leiden University in the Netherlands … an interactive, four-dimensional globe. It’s a projection of the Earth’s surface on a physical sphere. It shows the historical movement of the continents as its main feature, but it is also capable of displaying all kinds of other geographical data such as climate changes, plant growth, radiation, [...]

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Day 1284: Visualizing The Economy

March 3, 2009

FortiusOne drops the GeoCommons News Dashboard with an introductory visualization tool known as the ObamaMeter, which ”[keeps] tabs on the US economy, the global economy and the stimulus through [a] visual dashboard.”  Sean Gorman, founder and CEO of FortiusOne, writes on the company blog: One map or analysis did not get the job done. They needed a collection [...]

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Day 1171: Light Blogging Ahead

November 10, 2008

Today’s itinerary: 6:30 AM – Leave Milwaukee 10:30 AM – Arrive in New Orleans 5:30 PM – Leave New Orleans 9:30 PM – Arrive in Las Vegas for geophysics nerd con. Despite membership in the Krewe de C.R.A.P.S., a gambler I am not. Vegas has something to offer me every night, regardless, including a Landmark [...]

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Day 1017: Rocks Don’t Talk Or Disappoint

June 9, 2008

A large part of my decision to become a geoscientist and not a physician, accountant or politician was the delicious prospect of not dealing with many people. I’m no misanthrope (ask anyone in my family or at work who has to put up with my incessant babbling thorough commentary), but give me a computer or [...]

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