Ola Las Chicas!

May 31, 2008

Well!  This photo is the quintessential tourist Mexico shot!  Our Mexican hosts insisted I wear this sombrero during the pyramid tour and they were right!  Then Glenn had me pose in front of this giganormous cactus to just round the look off!

 

Mexico City

May 26, 2008

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  • history
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  • knowledge loss & transfer across time
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  • women
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Net Neutrality Rally May 27, Ottawa

May 15, 2008

Big rally in Ottawa to keep the content in pipes moving freely!

For Sale: Arctic Sovereignty?

May 14, 2008

Radarsat-2 article in the Walrus

How losing a Canadian satellite to the US would be like losing our eyes on the North

by Michael Byers

Animating the Infrastructure!

May 13, 2008

Exquisite urban interaction! (6 min vid, well worth it!)

 

via: Drawn! the Illustrator 

Nargis Imagery From Asia Pacific & other Organizations

May 12, 2008

via SDI Asia Pacific List

Myanmar: Forecasting Worked, Mitigation - Response Failed Again, Vector 1 Media.  Bref, we can model til the cows come home, and the models can be great, but if the people on the ground do not have the capacity to understand or want to hear what is being told, the warnings and the forecasts, then we see rising death tolls, just like in Burma right now.  It is not a math or science problem, it is a people problem.

ohoh! China and a post US world

Government of China Moto:

Enrich yourselves, but leave the driving to us

 

The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria.  He states that the US will do well as China and India rise for the following 4 reasons.

  1. Momentum and adaptability
  2. Industries of the future, info, bio, nano,
  3. Higher education is the best industry
  4. US demographics are young, immigration brings in 1 000 000 legally
This looks like a good read.  Who writes books like this for Canada?

Broadband Atlas Research

May 11, 2008

A small group of researchers including myself are doing a scan of maps, atlases and visual statistics on the Internet and the telecommunication infrastructure.  The start of our collection can be found in a bookmark sharing file that will expand with time.  And scanned images from paper products can be found here.  If you have ideas, suggestions, links to maps/atlases you have seen or data sources for Canada we would most appreciate them.

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May 10, 2008

Le scaphandre et le papillon

Radarsat-2 Not to be sold

May 9, 2008

The deal will not go through as Mr. Prentice said he is not satisfied that the deal "is likely to be of net benefit to Canada."

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