Science & Creativity for the Win!
I still LOVE this 2009 homage by the Sydney Uni Science Revue to the CSIROÂ – for more reasons than I can say…
This performance, from 2011, is also pretty special.
Videos embedded below the cut
Enjoy đ
I have just discovered…
that these exist:
How am I supposed to cope now that I know and do not own one?
Continue reading “I have just discovered…”
You’re a whatnow?
I’ve just seen the question “What’s the BEST way to explain being a GIS person?” or some variant of it appear on one of the many GIS&T discussion boards on which I lurk come up again.
It both saddens and frustrates me that people cannot seem to realise that there are so many ways to ‘be a GIS person’ that this question is simply either extremely naive or somewhat disingenuous. Continue reading “You’re a whatnow?”
Dear Australian Census Designers
Firstly, congrats on our first online census. That was awesome. I’ve heard there’s been some moaning but, humans + change = complaining, so no surprises there really! Being able to complete my submission on my phone after getting home from work filled me with respect for all the peeps involved.
There was just this one question, and maybe it’s a legacy issue, Continue reading “Dear Australian Census Designers”
NSW State Library #DigitiseMySuburb
The NSW State Library is digitising their historic subdivision plans!
A news release posted yesterday has invited people to use social media to get their suburb to the top of the list by tweeting @StateLibraryNSW using #DigitiseMySuburb
Over 250 NSW towns and suburbs are included in the collection and the most tweeted suburb over the period 6th Jan to 17th Feb 2015 will move to the next in line for digitisation.
Subdivision plans from Alexandria are already available online if you are interested in that neck of Sydney.
Need some Button Clicking monkeys? Anyone?
There’s a great post (My GIS is Better Than Yours (and other Lies)) by John G. Van Hoesen yesterday over at the Directions Magazine website. He has hit upon a topic close to my own heart, which is this:
- The Geographic Information Software product(s) you use are not an indication of your knowledge and ability in the arts of Geographic Information Science
It’s really very unfortunate that ‘science’, ‘systems’ and ‘software’ all start with an S! Continue reading “Need some Button Clicking monkeys? Anyone?”
