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The annual fuel economy report of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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DIY hurricane forecasting, no supercomputer or Ph.D required

Hurricane-tracking site Stormpulse just added user profiles and human-consensus forecasting, a potentially cool feature that I could try to explain, but which you would be far better off just reading about over this way. Needless to say, the wisdom of crowds relies on attracting a crowd, so check out Stormpulse now and try your hand at forecasting when the next hurricane rolls around.

Now here’s the part where I casually mention that, as Will recently noted, and as I’ve been meaning to point out for a couple weeks now, Matt Wensing, one of the gigantic brains behind Stormpulse, is now a colleague over at the office. In the interest of still fuller disclosure, I’ll just further note that Stormpulse isn’t affiliated with our employer. So what does Matt do all day, then? I can’t give too much away, but here’s a hint: lolcats. Uh-oh, I’ve already said too much …

What’s ESRI trying to say about your booty?

I’ve looked at the ArcGIS print window a thousands times and never gave it a second thought until now. Maybe I’m crazy, but here’s my question: Of all the places in the world ESRI designers could have chosen for the thumbnail map that illustrates output image quality, is it even remotely possibly that they would have settled on Djibouti and NOT meant it as a cheeky little play on the pronunciation (juh-boo-tee) of the tiny east African country’s name?

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Paper View Monday: The Olathe News of Olathe, Kansas

How would someone sitting behind a desk in South Florida find an oblique aerial image of the local newspaper office in the fifth most populous town in Kansas without the Internets and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth/Live Maps? They wouldn’t. A toast, then, to the Internets and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth/Live Maps! You have allowed me to see The Olathe News building as a bird might view it. A bird in Kansas. (Read more about the newspaper and its community over here.)

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Picture of a household item, Vol. 4

I have very special feelings about this vacuum. It’s awesome, simply awesome.

Florida Home 26: 2007-08-25, Bellaggio, west of Lake Worth

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Feature story on Indian River Drive in St. Lucie County. Neighborhood of the week is Bellaggio west of Lake Worth.

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Radical retro redesign for the St. Petersburg Times?

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Nope, it’s just The St. Petersburg Times of St. Petersburg, Russia. Not to be confused with the St. Petersburg Times of St. Petersburg, Florida, a city with very nearly as much history, and only one fewer UNESCO World Heritage Site than its European namesake. Thanks to friend and coworker Meghan Meyer for bringing the paper back from her recent trip to Russia, which featured only one near miss with a terrorist train-bombing. Typical vacation hassle.

Blog ‘noise’ a legitimate source in mainstream aerospace coverage

Not that Michael Skube’s silly Los Angeles Times column needs any further blog-flogging (go nuts if you’re interested), but here’s an interesting story on Boeing’s 787 from The Seattle Times that provides a bit more evidence of just how dumb it was.

Regular readers will know that I’m a bit of an aviation junkie, which means that I follow Boeing and Airbus news pretty closely in everything from traditional news sources to enthusiast message boards. One of the absolute best sources for really, really detailed information on Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner has been Flightblogger. The site is run by Jon Ostrower, who says he is a 23-year-old Boston resident with no connection to Boeing’s commercial aviation operation in Everett, Washington, nor the aerospace field in general.

Anyway, my point is that this short 787 update in today’s Seattle Times appears to be based largely on this Flightblogger post that went up Monday. Nothing wrong with that. This isn’t the first occasion that the Seattle dailies’ Boeing beat writers have demonstrated they’re paying attention to the online aviation world. Flightblogger’s updates on the 787 program have been pretty much spot on, and this isn’t the first time the site has been mentioned in mainstream 787 news. Would Skube call Flightblogger journalism? Probably not. But, like the bloggers he criticized, he’s probably too consumed with “unbecoming hatred of enemies real and imagined” to bother checking it out.

Paper View Monday: The Ledger of Lakeland, Florida

I did my first internship at The Ledger in lovely Lakeland, Florida back in the summer of 1998, not long after this building opened. Here’s a fact about that summer that blows my mind: Reporters didn’t have Internet access on their individual computers at the time. Also, as the building was still quite new, there was an allegedly strict policy about using only company-issued no-spill drink containers in the newsroom. I have a feeling they’re not using those any more, though I still have, and use, mine.

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