A New Year’s Flight Around Planet Earth / / No Comments On New Year’s Day, I released a small virtual fireworks show to celebrate the start of the year. The Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung then put my effort to shame by publishing an impressive orbital tour of the entire planet on the same day – recorded by the International Space Station.Illuminated Cities and Northern Lights: A New Year’s Flight around the World around the World is a guided Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: around, Earth, flight, Planet, Years
540 Million Years of Planet Earth / / No Comments 540 million years ago the Earth’s climate was very different from how it is today. During the Cambrian period global temperatures were warmer than they are now. It is believed there were no polar icecaps and there was likely to have been high levels of precipitation and humidity over much of the planet. Of course our world hasn’t always been so warm. The last Ice Age was during the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Earth, Million, Planet, Years
Python overtakes Java, JavaScript as most popular programming language for first time in 20 years – TechSpot / / No Comments Python overtakes Java, JavaScript as most popular programming language for first time in 20 years TechSpot “JavaScript” – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: first, Java, JavaScript, Language, most, overtakes, Popular, programming, Python, TechSpot, time, Years
Google Maps is back on the Apple Watch after abandoning it three years ago – The Verge / / No Comments Google Maps is back on the Apple Watch after abandoning it three years ago The Verge Google Maps for Apple Watch is now available on the App Store 9to5Google Google Maps for Apple Watch Now Live With Latest Update MacRumors Google Maps for Apple Watch doesn’t actually have any maps TrustedReviews Google Maps app for the Apple Watch is now available PhoneDog View Full Coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: abandoning, after, Apple, Back, Google, maps, three, Verge, Watch, Years
JavaScript creator Eich: My take on 20 years of the world’s top programming language – ZDNet / / No Comments JavaScript creator Eich: My take on 20 years of the world’s top programming language ZDNet “JavaScript” – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: creator, Eich, JavaScript, Language, programming, take, world's, Years, ZDNet
Woman bedridden for two years by Lyme disease from tick bite – BBC News / / No Comments Woman bedridden for two years by Lyme disease from tick bite BBC News A woman went from living the “best years of her life” to almost two years of illness and seclusion in a bedroom because of a tick bite. Yen Lau, 32, from Glasgow, … “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: bedridden, bite, disease, from, Lyme, News, tick, woman, Years
JavaScript 20 Years Old Today – iProgrammer / / No Comments JavaScript 20 Years Old TodayiProgrammerJavaScript started out as an in browser scripting language – something like Visual Basic for the web. You probably already know the brief history of JavaScript. It was a rush job. Brendan Eich was asked to produce a scripting language for Netscape … JavaScript – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: iProgrammer, JavaScript, Today, Years