RT @lonniehodge: People's Daily (!): As China rises, its people grow arrogant http://ping.fm/ytvbU

Optimizing internet peering relationships probably could use network (not datacomm) graph tech http://j.mp/eG2c9z

Interactive USA Development visualization http://j.mp/ebJhfI

RT @rgaidot: Google Trends: Hadoop versus Big Data versus MapReduce hadoop bigdata mapreduce http://bit.ly/hvhwnn

Agents of Secret Stuff movie premiering online http://ping.fm/BZ9hz

Kunming China to Yangon Myanmar high speed (170+km/h) rail construction to begin 2011 http://bit.ly/f7nJNy

Google App Engine Issues

Carlos Ble tries Google App Engine and finds shortcomings for his application. Useful comments on his post.

Comprehensive New York Times Blog Post on Current Airport Security Issues

NYT FiveThirtyEight blog by Nate Silver discusses airport security and current public backlash.

Some excerpts:

• short mention of false positives
• derivation of basis for statement "My guess is that the fraction of Americans who travel by plane each year is in fact probably not more than about 1 in 3." As opposed to "Gallup poll conducted in 2008, for instance, found that just 44 percent of Americans reported having flown at least once in the past year."
• frequent fliers — those who take 4 or more round trips per year — account for the 57 percent majority of all air travel, even though they make up just 18 percent of air travelers and something like 7 percent of the overall American population.

Unclear where frequent flyer = 4 or more round trips/year came from.

I need to pay more attention to the 100G WAN stuff such as LBL's http://j.mp/a0FZwD

iPhone + Google Voice screened calls + driving = not so good

Alternate reality plans from 1942 of Nazi invasions of North America http://j.mp/aihzRc

Photos of disappearing China http://j.mp/9kfRVL

Syrian Military Area

including missiles (or missile decoys) in Syria

Interesting read on cyber thieves http://ping.fm/hyylR security

Protein sports drinks probably don't add to exercise, especially event, performance http://ping.fm/BmQS4

Laos abandons plans for Vientiane-Nong Khai rail to avoid duplication with planned China-Lao-Thai high speed rail http://bit.ly/bH095c

Saw Inception again at $1 movies. Feel like the pig in the YouTube mashup, "You're talking about dreams..." http://ping.fm/8vdJh

Didn't know about Chrome Profiles http://bit.ly/9iXaTk

GMail and GCal don't display (for me) with apparently just dropped Chrome 8.0.552.28 beta, Windows 7

Google Map Maker Africa Conference 2010 africamm http://j.mp/9d8DkS maps

F3X Optical Network Fiber Fault Finder Gun http://j.mp/9wnXF3 <-wonder if this works

Mapping Resource Links

Some mapping references:

• Open, geographic information systems at Geonames.org
• National Geospatial Program Standards
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• NGA Geonames

(3 Nov 10)

RT @AndyBrouwer: You Khin Guesthouse [art gallery] Phnom Penh http://bit.ly/akNWAA travel cambodia