Forbes.com lists out the ten most endangered destinations in the world, which are under threat from global warming, pollution, deforestation and urbanization.
With scientists predicting that the North Pole may be deprived of ice for a brief period sometime in the coming months, no wonder global warming has its effects on the ice fields [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Posted on June 22nd, 2008 in Resources
Every now and then, we come across articles published on richest people either on the web or in newspapers by different agencies. If it was not for these lists, wonder how people all around the globe knew about Bill Gates being the richest person (once upon a time).
If is quite obvious that at some [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 in General
If you are wondering as to why there is a change of Google logo on its homepage today, its because today is the longest day of the year aka Summer Solstice, and the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
Today, the sun is directly overhead at noon at the Tropic of Cancer and on [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 in General
If you are among the 8 million Firefox users who helped Mozilla set up a world record for most software downloads in a day by downloading Firefox 3 on June 17th, 2008, Mozilla.org acknowledges you by providing with a certificate.
Click here and get your certificate now!!!
According to Tom Van Riper and Robert Malone, authors of the article on The World’s Fastest Elevators at Forbes.com, to know where the world’s booming economies are, one need not spend time analyzing GDP reports, employment statistics and spending trends of consumers, but knowing the answer to where the world’s fastest elevators are is sufficient.
Tall [...]
Here’s a basic and simple video tutorial on using the clip analysis tool of ArcToolbox in ArcGIS Desktop 9.2. The tutorial even works for previous versions of ArcGIS.
via http://www.vtorial.com