http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com a gift to you and me accidently on purpose somewhere but mostly in the city Fri, 16 May 2008 15:28:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Big rally in Ottawa to keep the content in pipes moving freely! http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/15/net-neutrality-rally-may-27-ottawa/ Radarsat-2 article in the Walrus.  How losing a Canadian satellite to the US would be like losing our eyes on the Northby Michael Byers http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/for-sale-arctic-sovereignty/ Exquisite urban interaction! (6 min vid, well worth it!) via: Drawn! the Illustrator  http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/13/animating-the-infrastructure/ via SDI Asia Pacific ListMyanmar: 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 ... http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/12/nargis-imagery-from-asia-pacific-other-organizations/ 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.Momentum and adaptabilityIndustries of the future, info, bio, nano, Higher education is the best industryUS ... http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/12/ohoh-china-and-a-post-us-world/ 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 ... http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/11/broadband-atlas-research/ Le scaphandre et le papillon http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/10/movie-faves/ 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."Globe & MailCBC Bloomberg.comVancouverSun http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/09/radarsat-2-not-to-be-sold/ Well it has been 2 + years since I started Blogging!There have been about 35k + visits, 581 posts, some longer, others better, some good stuff with some intermitten nonsense and overall a really good time with a bit of time wasting on this blog.  Since then I organized a ... http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/2-years-of-blogging/ Hey!  Someone googled my family name, got to my blog, and left a trace.  When I went to see what they found, I found my dad, brother and brother in law!  How cool is that!  My dad is one of those snow bird seniors that now has a laptop and ... http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/my-dad-brother/