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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 best tools available for their jobs – and Google Earth is really the way to go!" In my opinion, a combination of 3d physical models of terrain, 2d & 3d computer maps and coordinated, online emergency services with on-the-go updates can go a long way in security maintenance and disaster response.
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"The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with analysis, unclassified commercial satellite imagery and geospatial intelligence products of the Samoan Island areas devastated by the recent earthquake and resulting tsunami. NGA is also providing public access to some of the images."
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Description of experience traveling with the iPhone, tips for reducing international charges, and recommendations for using your American iPhone in Europe.
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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.
10 days in Germany (and Austria): Frankfurt for a conference, followed by Salzburg for Mozart, Munich for Oktoberfest, and Dachau. I can’t wait, although I have the beginnings of a cold. Please, gods, let it not be H1N1.
See what two weeks can do to my reading list? Of course, it doesn’t include Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, which I haven’t yet purchased. (Suffice it to say that my shoulders are still sore from carrying around The Baroque Cycle.)
Good, I’ve been eyeing a certain bookshelf or another.
