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Reading the Maya Glyphs, by Michael Coe and Mark Van Stone
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Most complete Earth map published
ASTER Global Digital Elevation Map
Next100 - A Dialogue on the Next Century of Energy
Polyhedra - Wolfram Demonstrations Project
visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
Considering building a small hemisphere for projection, I wondered about the geometry of the sections of a dome. This tutorial, while applying to parachutes, has the formulas for the sections of the hemisphere - a triangle from the pole to the equator has more than 180 degrees total in its angles. I knew that, but not the formulas.
And here's someone who tried to do the same thing for a dome.
Building an inexpensive usable projection dome. - Observatory Central
His numbers for a 10' dome are below.
MORE...Slashdot News Story | A Mathematician's Lament - an Indictment of US Math Education
Are Commercial Buildings Ready for Open-Source Energy Management?
Studies to update and return to train frieight systems.
Aggies rethinking truck freight with electric train | Planetary Gear - CNET News
Some of the illegal settlers in the Sierra del Lacandon Park, Guatemala, have left peacefully. Few details are available so far.
Prensa Libre - Edición electrónica - Portada
Back on the Sketchup track, to update the model.
Three tutorials on bringing CAD drawings into Sketchup, grouped together:
How to use SketchUp with CAD files to create structures | Wonder How To
Main Sketchup video site on YouTube:
YouTube - SketchUpVideo's Channel
And the YouTube site for "Sketchup for Dummies" - excellent.
YouTube - aidanchopra's Channel
An example of an embedded model - let's see how it works.
Lower Eastside Girls Club - Volumetric Model by DaveP - Google 3D Warehouse
Click and then drag side to side.
UPDATE: I had some issues with getting the embed to work and Google folks were quick with help. Here's their first response, which may help other users:
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First off, there are some models that still don't load properly in the Google Earth Plugin. We're looking at those issues and hope to resolve them soon. Please post links to 3D Warehouse models where there are problems - in the group please! - so we can look at specific examples.
Secondly, the embed functionality has a bit of smarts in it that will intelligently revert embed types depending upon what's available. So if you ask for a Google Earth Plugin embed for a non-geo model, you'll get a 3D View. If you ask for a 3D View for a model where for some reason we don't have the generated images (as in the example posted above), we'll revert to the image type.
Finally, some sites don't allow embedding via the IFRAME technique. Google Sites is an example. In this case, you'll need to create a Google Gadget to do the embed. I slapped something together that I'm happy to share in a thread on the group.
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Another version, without as many neighboring buildings:
Put any Google 3D Warehouse model in a webpage. Upload a Sketchup model to the Warehouse and place in a page.
Good tool for 3D blogging in a visualization class. Hmmm...
Official Google SketchUp Blog: Take your 3D with you
An old standby, now for Leopard. It costs, but the free solutions we have tried won't work.
Netopia Timbuktu® Pro For Mac OS - Remote Control Desktop for Mac - Remote Computer Access
For remote screensharing. Other approaches.
BTMM
Mac OS X 10.5: About Back to My Mac security
SSH
macosxhints.com - 10.5: How to use screen sharing remotely and securely
Latin American Herald Tribune - Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Maya River Port in Southeast Mexico
I read John August's "The Variant" last week, a first for self-publishing on Kindle. In this post he tells how to format your work for Kindle.
johnaugust.com » Kindle formatting for web geeks
In some cases may equal most useful.
Top 18 most downloaded WordPress plugins ever
Mapping - Links to sites from presentations at the recent Where2.0 conference. One guy's notes, well done.
Hairyegg's where2009 Bookmarks on Delicious
Easy tool for doodling on Google Maps.
quikmaps.com :: maps for the masses
Still looking at energy monitoring devices, I got a preview U.S. version of the Current Cost meter. It works well with a Pachube widget that displays temp and power on the Mac, and sends it to Pachube. But I had to go back to the work that was done last year in the UK to find a way to make an Arduino with ethernet shield do the reporting - freeing up the Mac.
"a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. interact + connect with the space community."
Looks like a terrific site to watch for our new planetarium/science center.
Share your location publicly on a blog or web site. Interesting (like most of this location-aware stuff) and profoundly creepy.
Google includes this warning on the page:
Privacy Notice
You may choose to share only your city-level location or the best available one.
If enabled, your location will be publicly available to everyone. You will not be able to limit where and with whom you share your location through the badge.
Take a look - nice mobile graphing app from Pachube.
Mobile Pachube feeds: new mapping app | pachube.community
96 characters on the Rosenberg assassination video and he was arrested in Guatemala.
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