Trash Track

A team of MIT scientists is embarking on a mission to track individual pieces of refuse through the American sanitation system. Cellular tracking devices are attached to specific items, like coffee cups:

The idea is that if folks saw the ridiculous paths their garbage took to get to its destination, maybe they’d think twice about [...]

Weezer goes great with Lil’ Wayne

Also featuring Nine Inch Nails and Kelly Clarkson:

(taken with Flip Mino HD)

Girl Talk

We just saw Girl Talk this weekend at Club Firestone in Orlando. He played with Hollywood Holt and Grand Buffet (one of the most underrated live acts touring today). Colette even made us some shirts for the festivities.

It was, hands down, the most insane party I’ve ever seen. Who knew a mashup [...]

Pirate Invasion

I went with Colette, Zac, and Justin to Gasparilla a couple weekends ago. We just parked over at my office in Channelside and walked over to Florida Avenue downtown to watch the parade roll by and catch some beads. Picked up a 12-pack of PBR on the way over and just stood there [...]

Historical Imagery

Google has released Google Earth version 5. They’ve added the ability to browse historical imagery from previous flyovers of a given area, just by scrolling backward on a timeline. Change-detection possibilities are starting to become readily available for even casual users of GIS. Bathymetry data is now exposed, allowing you to see [...]

Frozen

As civilized as I think the United States are, sometimes there are stories that just mystify me.

OpenStreetMap

I just recently discovered the OpenStreetMap project while internetting around for cool GIS-related web stuff the other day. It’s a wiki-fied version of Google Maps, with vectorized street data input by users all over the world. You can either digitize street or building data on top of out-of-copyright imagery they provide, or import [...]

Obama’s Inauguration, from space

The GeoEye-1 satellite captured this amazing photo of the National Mall during Obama’s Inauguration yesterday. The image was taken at 11:19 AM EST, so the crowd couldn’t have gotten much bigger than this. Download the KML file to view in Google Earth here.

It’s interesting to see how the crowd congregated in bunches up [...]

Draft Sully

After Captain Chesley Sullenberger miraculously crash landed an Airbus A320 in the Hudson River without seriously injuring anyone, some jokers are calling for a slight promotion:

“That’s probably what pissed them off, actually”

This is hilarious: