A pirate’s life for me
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By , on April 22nd, 2009 6 comments   Conservation & Environment   , , ,  

BBC News carries an interview with a 25 year old Somali pirate Years ago we used to fish a lot, enough for us to eat and sell in the markets…. Then illegal fishing and dumping of toxic wastes by foreign fishing vessels affected our livelihood, depleting the fish stocks. I had no other choice but . . . → Read More: A pirate’s life for me

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Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft
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By , on March 27th, 2009 2 comments   Education, Gadgets & Gear, Industry & Government   , , , , , , , , , , ,  

A sense of place. It’s essential to deep-sea exploration. We’re far from land, on a flat horizon, hovering over echosounder output from the seafloor below. We watch a map drawn line by line by line. It takes hours for small features, days for large ones. In time, different things are revealed to different people. Geological . . . → Read More: Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft

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