You know, if there's one thing about Quebec I can really respect it's their intense and pompous way of thumbing their own perceived superiority directly into your face at all times. Now I don't hide the fact that with the exception of Montreal I'm not a huge fan of Quebec, and before anyone gets the...

Last week I attended and presented at the North Carolina GIS Conference in Raleigh, NC. It was a different conference from the ones I typically attend. It is a much more regional and GIS-focused conference than Where2.0, State of the Map, or Location Intelligence. The attendees are primarily county,...

(Cross-posted from the Lat Long Blog) [Note: Last week we saw some interesting speculation that Atlantis had been found in Google Earth. As much as we'd love for that to be the case, there is a scientific explanation for the odd markings found on the seafloor. We've invited two of the scientists who...

Tom Engelhardt is the co-founder of the American Empire Project and runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com , of which I have been a subscriber for several enlightening years . Tom is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of the American Age of Denial. He also edited The World Acco...

Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose the project that's the coolest... and most hellish! Are you thinking of entering the Buttonwillow Histrionics 24 Hours Of LeMons, but just can't find the......

A year ago today, I was taking a plane from Chennai to Bangalore and then having a good walk around Bangalore with Mohan. Over a year ago, I signed up for Nokia's Sports Tracker in preparation for the Urbanista Diaries trip. I created a public account that would feed into the Urbanista Diaries web i...

The commentary below (everything beneath the colophone) comes courtesy of Stratfor. Subscribe, especially if it strikes your fancy! -- David M Gordon / The Deipnosophist ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ February 10, 2009 1826 GMT Obama's Economic Recovery Plan Summary U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy ...

  Not since the Second Intifada, when more than a thousand Israelis were murdered by Palestinian suicide bombers, have Israeli civilians suffered in a way that makes for compelling news copy or TV reports. The southern Israeli city of Sderot sits right next to the border with Gaza, and it is th...

This was not reassuring. It describes the experiences that a retired Eau Claire County, WI sherrif's deputy had while in Afghanistan, working to help train their police: "Perhaps the biggest problem related to his work, Henricks said, was the misleading way in which Afghan men were recruited for pol...

Where are all the Location Aware Social Networks? As someone who spends a lot of time reading, trying out, and evaluating social media products and services I find it very hard to believe that we haven’t yet seen a game changing location aware social network, or at least extension of an existi...