Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Was up at 4am Monday morning to catch the bus to Livingstone. Stayed at Jollyboys backpackers' which was fine for my needs. Could boil up noodles for lunch in their kitchen and they do a basic filling meal for abouit a fiver each evening. They also had Savana cider even when the local Shoprite had sold out Tuesday morning got the hostel lift to Victoria FallsMosioaTunya paid my entrance a
OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY (Free subscription) | yesterday
US Army Human Terrain System in Disarray Millions of Dollars Wasted, Two Lives Sacrificed Pravda, July 23, 2008 by John Stanton According to sources, United States Army brigade commanders privately believe that the US Army’s TRADOC Human Terrain System (HTS) program is a “joke” [...]
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
(The Intelligence Daily) -- As the costs of imperialist war skyrocket, securocrats find themselves under the gun so to speak, of corporate and Pentagon masters demanding "results."No matter that the solutions sought are for "smart" weapons--particularly those that "think"--systems they believe capable of dominating global south and "homeland" cities. This quest for technological mastery has been dubbed...
Rashid's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
There were reports about the effects of global warming on algal bloom . As a geographer both interests me , besides i have a life-science background so i have natural interest in these. I have found an interesting and somewhat convincing post on Watts Up With That'. Here it is: It seems that global warming is [...]
Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
We'd like to offer congratulations to Gerhard Buttner, the winner of Planeta.com's eighth annual Colibri Ecotourism Award. South African geographer Buttner won the honor for his superb work training guides and artisans in Mexico's Yucatan and Oaxaca. Over the past...
kazakhstan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I wrote about this before on blogistan.asia, but I am still interested in the topic and therefore I will write here again. Astana is something like a city of myth for many German newspapers and therefore often described as one of those unbelievable new cities built on oil and gas like Dubai and Abu Dhabi. [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Tara Bozick, Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 22--REFUGIO --The 3,400-acre ranch never received this much attention.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Turkey - Summer 2008
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Bangalore: The Goethe-Institut-Max Mueller Bhavan will organise a panel discussion on urban change that will bring together two related projects — an exhibition currently on display at the bhavan, “Urban Changes, An Exhibition of ...
One Utah (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Geographers like me are used to our fellow Americans’ inexhaustible reservoir of ignorance about the world. After all, it’s a big planet that offers a vast array of little-known information. Yet, surely we could be expected to know something. How hard can it be? Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on [...]
7.5th Floor (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Whenever I introduce the domain of “urban computing” I mention three highly intertwined themes. First the design of technologies that integrate into the urban environment (still) driven by ubicomp-optimists; second the study of impact of these technologies on the city observed by social scientists and human geographers; and third the research on revealing the [...]
Digital Urban (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
This months issue of Geographical includes a feature whereby Olivia Edward talks to the British urban geographers ( including us ) who are immersing themselves in virtual cities to gain a greater insight into the workings of our real-life conurbations . The article is based around screenshots and interviews from ourselves as well as Mark Birkin from the University of Leeds. We haven't had chance to...
Rashid's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (September 15, 973 in Kath, Khwarezm – December 13, 1048 in Ghazni) was a Persian polymath[4] scholar of the 11th century. He was a scientist and physicist, an anthropologist and psychologist, an astronomer, a chemist, a critic of alchemy and astrology, an encyclopedist and historian, a geographer and traveller, a [...]
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
We’re interrupting our ongoing attempt to sort through our San Diego-related email to note something rather curious. You see, The Beat and Future Mr. Beat are staying on Monday night in San Diego to chill out, detox and simply sit staring silently into space. Our accommodations are still in a state of flux, but this morning [...]
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A nationwide Greenpeace campaign to stop global warming by encouraging people to write Congress holds a kickoff event Sunday in Scottsdale.
