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from #osgeo channel

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

A tiny discussion about climate change triggered by FOSS4G 2009 talks logged by seven on #osgeo IRC channel: 

[seven] The Earth's climate is changing.
[seven] Finally it seems like it is not a discussion any more.
[seven] We messed the world up and now?
[seven] We go fly to down under. Huh.
[mloskot] The Earth climate is a self-modifying code performing multi processing tasks, quite hard to debug
[seven] Debug earth's climate is easy: Remove humanity
[seven] says a dedicated Borg...
[mloskot] seven:  right, that sounds like a reasonable patch

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EEA / Microsoft partnership

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

It is 3 months old news, but I’ve found it very recently. In the middle of May 2008, European Environment Agency announced they signed a partnership with Microsoft. The aim of this collaboration is (or was) to create ”an environmental information platform” based on Microsoft’s Virtual Earth.

In July 2008, EEA/Microsoft launched Eye on Earth platform with Water Watch component combining scientific data and Web Mapping to present water quality in European countries:

Currently, it includes information on the water quality for more than 21.000 bathing sites throughout Europe

More on http://www.eyeonearth.eu/

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The Cascadoss Project

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Cascados LogoIn this post, I’m going to spread a word about the Cascados project. The project is founded by the European Commission in frame of the Sixth Framework Programme and is focused on development of a trans-national cascade training programme on Open Source GIS & Remote Sensing software for environmental applications. The Cascados project is formed by a number of partners from Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. More detailed information can be found on the project website (multilingual) recently launched at the http://cascadoss.eu/

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Boycott Guillermo Habacuc Vargas

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Following this link to the Starving Dog as Art- The Utter Outrage you can read a shocking story about pseudo-art exhibition given by pseudo-artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas with starving dog as the subject.

The Petition

Boicot a la presencia de Guillermo Habacuc Vargas en la Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008

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Why +12 C in January?

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

The answer is simple:

(…) like Letterman said yesterday, everything is wrong since they kicked Pluto out of the Solar System.

by leGeddy, yesterday, on the #gdal channel.

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White bear with brown patches

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Polar and Grizzly Hybrid bearBBC announced today about rare discovery – a hybrid of grizzly and polar bear. Such hybrids were known from zoos or stories about coloured bears. I’m pretty surprised such hybrids have not been found till now.

Unfortunately, the bear was shot dead by an American big game hunter. Biologists said it was the offspring of a male grizzly bear and a female polar bear.

Full story is here: Hybrid bear shot dead in Canada

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Motto of the week

Monday, April 10th, 2006

When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can’t eat money…

–
Greenpeace

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