Article in the New York Times about the fact that city rescuers lacked coordination. The three main emergency agencies that went to the World Trade Center - the Fire Department, the New York Police Department, and the Port Authority Police Department - did not coordinate their responses and frequen...
(Prospective) A-Team, Vigilante, Federalism
If I had times, I would write a short political essay about this. I was thinking at the A team or all the vigilante stuff in the US pop culture. USA is the one of the place where you can find "vigilantes" as a cultural phenomenon (I mean superheros that may protect the Earth as well as human beings...
(Space and Place) The map is not the territory
"The map is not the territory" is the second principles of the General Semantics. That means that words are not the things they represent. Some more...: The scientific problems involved are very extensive and can be dealt with only in a large volume. Here I am able to give only a very sketchy summa...
(Video Games) Workshop about games and social network
This workshop will occur the September 6th 2004 at University of Leeds, organized by John Halloran, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Barry Brown This workshop brings together researchers and professionals interested in the social potential of online multiplayer computer games. These games support complex ...
(Space and Place) RAND Report Says Geospatial Data Not Big Threat
Via slashdot.org: An article in Federal Computer Week came out Monday that announced The Rand Corporation has published a report (sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) concerning the threat that publicly available geospatial data on US Government web sites might pose in the hand...
(Tech) Visualizing Social Software
Vizster is a cool infoviz system Vzster provides a visualization of such services, providing an interactive sociogram for exploring the links between network members. In addition to visualizing "friendship" linkages, Vizster supports a range of exploratory search features, providing visualization ...
[Weird] Do you know Bearbrick
This is a Bearbrick: ...
[Lyon] Best shop ever
This TV repair shop is definetly the best shop I've ever seen. The shop is so full of old tv that the guy is just behind the door, if you happen to open it, you will crush him on the wall ! ...
[Weird] Hunter in a train company
Odd new job: hunter for a train company. That's what René Favre does for a living for the french train company SNCF. He has to hunt animals that may cross the TGV line and hence could awfully cause delay for train and bad accidents. Métier insolite: chasseur professionnel à la SNCF (AFP) René Favre...
[MyResearch] iPAQ solutions for Location Based Services
Vijas Fire DepartmentUsing iPAQ Pocket PCs attached to a mobile GPS device, Vijas Fire Department teams flew the fire perimeter in a helicopter mapped its perimeter so fire commanders could quickly and safely deploy firefighting teams. Firefighting In the US iPAQ Pocket PC helped advance fire-fight...