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Three things to like about WikiMapia

Here are three things that I like about WikiMapia :  It’s brings together the excellence of Google Maps and the social power of Wiki.  The results are better than anywhere else.  Even Cyprus, which...

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Twinkle – sudden popularization of Cyprus

There was an sudden boost in searches for Cyprus yesterday.  The reason for that was a bug in Twinkle – a Twitter client for iPhone.  For some reason, Twinkle was identifying current location wrong...

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Richat Structure

Last week I posted a couple of photographs of Cyprus from space.  While looking through the rest of the images in collection, I noticed something that I’ve never heard about before – a picture of so...

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A lesson in geography perhaps, Mr.President?

Cyprus Mail does an extensive coverage of the explosion investigation (several articles, I’m only linking to the one I quote).  The President of Cyprus, Dimitris Christofias, was also questioned and...

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Kiribati

Kiribati In June 2008, Kiribati officials asked Australia and New Zealand to accept Kiribati citizens as permanent refugees. Kiribati is expected to be the first country in which all land territory...

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Battle scars: How the first world war changed the world

Battle scars: How the first world war changed the world Geography changed too. After the war the Treaty of Versailles carved out new countries from what remained of the old pre-war empires....

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Quora: if programming languages were countries …

“If programming languages were countries, which country would each language represent?” over Quora is hilarious!  Here are a few bits to get you started: C – Russia. Everything has to be done in a...

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MapFight – visually compare sizes of countries

MapFight is a fun little web application, which superimposes the maps of two selected countries to show which one is larger and by how much.  And the best part is that you don’t even to stick just to...

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Three things to like about WikiMapia

Here are three things that I like about WikiMapia :  It’s brings together the excellence of Google Maps and the social power of Wiki.  The results are better than anywhere else.  Even Cyprus, which...

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Twinkle – sudden popularization of Cyprus

There was an sudden boost in searches for Cyprus yesterday.  The reason for that was a bug in Twinkle – a Twitter client for iPhone.  For some reason, Twinkle was identifying current location wrong...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Richat Structure

Last week I posted a couple of photographs of Cyprus from space.  While looking through the rest of the images in collection, I noticed something that I’ve never heard about before – a picture of so...

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A lesson in geography perhaps, Mr.President?

Cyprus Mail does an extensive coverage of the explosion investigation (several articles, I’m only linking to the one I quote).  The President of Cyprus, Dimitris Christofias, was also questioned and...

View Article

Kiribati

Kiribati In June 2008, Kiribati officials asked Australia and New Zealand to accept Kiribati citizens as permanent refugees. Kiribati is expected to be the first country in which all land territory...

View Article


Battle scars: How the first world war changed the world

Battle scars: How the first world war changed the world Geography changed too. After the war the Treaty of Versailles carved out new countries from what remained of the old pre-war empires....

View Article

Quora: if programming languages were countries …

“If programming languages were countries, which country would each language represent?” over Quora is hilarious!  Here are a few bits to get you started: C – Russia. Everything has to be done in a...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

MapFight – visually compare sizes of countries

MapFight is a fun little web application, which superimposes the maps of two selected countries to show which one is larger and by how much.  And the best part is that you don’t even to stick just to...

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