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Month December 2007
Starbucks Effect
Local Heroes?
Shiode on Dynamic Urban Visualization
Naru Shiode from the University at Buffalo gave a spellbinding presentation on spatial-temporal analysis at the Centre for Spatial Analysis (CSpA) on Friday. Shiode is trained as architect and urban planner and finds himself in the Geography department at Buffalo.…
Quite Telling
Naming Names
A New Currency
Starbucks Challenge
Brilliant
Dutch Tulip Island
Crazy German Kids? Movie
Was out to the kino to catch something that I could claim as some degree of exposure to the German media scene. The redlight district probably could have provided some special, 😉 experiences, but went the other way. What are…
Mücheners and English
One thing that really strikes me and I’m not sure I was as conscious of it before was that English holds a strange place here. There is the unique fascination with certain words that seem totem and symbolic rather than…
In Holding Pattern at FRA
Well … here I sit at the Flughaffen Frankfurt. Its about 8am, and the flight was in a little ahead of schedule at 6:45am. No sleep, but then I decided that that would be best in the end and forewent…
Hardly a Rebel Machine
8 Laptops in one coffee shop…every one a Mac.
Reaume: From Activists to Archivists
Geoffrey Reaume from York and University of Toronto gave a fascinating talk in the History of Health and Medicine Lunchtime Seminar Series today. “From Activists to Archivists: Documenting Mad People’s History Since the 1970s,” explored both the formation of psychiatric…
Of Mice and Me
I feared the trackpad. I am not the biggest fan of the trackpad. I gather that my namesake, the CTO at Synaptics is responsible for some of the biggest breakthroughs as the trackpad gained laptop cred during the 1990’s and…