Month June 2007

Baskerville: Silent Revolution

I attended a very informative and thought provoking presentation by Peter Baskerville at the University of Guelph today. He postulates that the shift in wealth from men to women during the period 1860 – 1930 was of similar magnitude to…

Downright Useful GPS

The HKL Helsinki’s Public Transit has a moving, real time map of bus locations available via their website. Now that’s what the public wants to know. Where is my bus? Why its right there. That’s what real time GPS reporting…

Why Space and Time?

Why are we fascinated with the intersection of time and space?? A couple posts this morning caused me to take a step back and consider this larger question. I am fascinated with the visualization of the relationship between time and…