Sunday, March 28, 2010

85% of research computing can be done using cloud http://bit.ly/aRKphL <-resistance from HPC users
US has twice aircraft carriers of rest of world combined. Graphic showing relative flight deck capacity. http://bit.ly/clLxlk military

Saturday, March 27, 2010

United/UA any Premier ok to enroll in HKG Frequent Visitor's e-Channel http://bit.ly/bs1uMl travel

Friday, March 26, 2010

Is the quantity of patents a metric of innovation? http://ping.fm/WNcqS
Caching 404s [hit by spiders] Saved The Onion 66% on Server Time http://bit.ly/cqMrYI scalability
HDMI 1.3a Category 2 cables color coded http://bit.ly/djmhwO shop
Marine platoons in distributed operations in Afghanistan have as much communications gear as a battalion http://bit.ly/bN2Ufd military
New Art and Digital Media from Iran - 3/30-4/10, 2010 - Berkeley http://bit.ly/alN3Tr
Is optimal DNS TTL 1/2 expected Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)? [Wikipedia outage] http://bit.ly/8YfdRz
White House & Congress can’t seem to contemplate making biggest banks smaller or even limiting their size http://bit.ly/dDfLRR financial

Thursday, March 25, 2010

New bathymetric data along the Southern California Coast pushed to Google Earth & Maps http://bit.ly/aS00mh scuba
Some airline frequent flyers eligible for Hong Kong eChannel immigration clearance http://bit.ly/bkHbqs travel
Heavy dust in the air anywhere near the river from construction in downtown Vientiane Laos http://bit.ly/aFzRD4 travel
Evan Osnos: Life Without Google - The New Yorker "like an addled Goliath" http://bit.ly/almCHK China googlecn
Visualization: age, debt, credit score by email provider http://bit.ly/bUeCn0 SuspectButInteresting
Google will provide censored search results to China contractual partners, but won't renew http://bit.ly/cy1B2A

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Angkor Temples Mapped

For fans of the more obscure Angkor era temples, a lot are mapped starting around here, http://bit.ly/9nsBpv , with a lot of panning the map around.

The locations are generally taken from Ancient Angkor by Freeman and Jacques, Asia Books, Bangkok 1999.   You more or less have to know the names to find them with search.  The comprehensive on line listings of the names with geo-locations seems to have disappeared
http://www.angkorguide.de/English-Dateien/monuments.htm
but here is a site with a lot of photos with locations. http://www.panoramio.com/user/1549852/tags/Cambodia