First up in the news this month is maps of Vancouver and the winter Olympics. Google updated their 3D imagery for the Olympics, and you can get a good tour using this KML file. How do you get street view on the slopes yo
I’ve been on a big web design kick lately, so I thought I’d do a quick post on using @font-face for custom typography on your web page. @font-face has been around since CSS2, and the first browser to take advantage of it
There are slim pickings in the make smarter department this past month, but there were a few things that jumped out at me. First, via Vector One, Cynthia Dietz, Map Librarian at the University of Stony Brook NY, wronte a
Here’s the TED talk on upcoming Bing map features that has been in the news lately. In a nutshell, MS Worldwide Telescope and Flicker geotagged image integration with a demo of a live video overlay. It’s an impressive de
Some things are so amazing, they just have to be shared. Sand painting over a light box by Kseniya Simonova, who won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” It’s an interpretation of Germany’s invasion and occupatio
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Flash. First you had some quotes from Steve Jobs of this ilk: Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it's because of Flash. No
I’ve already been asked several times how I did the floating cloud bit in the header, so here it goes. Fair warning: if you were expecting some miraculous bit of coding here you’re going to be sorely disappointed. First,
What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. Fir
TED Talks has a good presentation by Bill Davenhall titled Your health depends on where you live. It’s an interesting talk on the new science of geomedicine (so new I couldn’t find geomedicine on Wikipedia). This must be
Score! I’m happy to note that according to Google Analytics only 28% of you are using Internet Explorer. My hat’s off to 72% of you. If you are in that other 28%, however, unless you like your personal data compromised