Timelapse: Landsat imagery over time

Great website showing the changes in land use as captured by the LandSat satellites over time.  They've set up some great examples - but of New Zealand interest is the changing rural land uses to wine (try Marlborough) and the changing land use in the Canterbury plains (not sure if this is a seasonal issue or the wider availability of irrigation).

http://world.time.com/timelapse/

A little bit old but...

What are the implications of leaving a country off an international map for an international initiative?  In this instance the missing case of New Zealand on the Nuclear Security Summit.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9869154/NZ-left-off-map-at-nuke-summit

Women in GIS

A new ESRI story map which shows the location of women working in and studying  GIS.  Very US centric at the moment but an interesting insight into the spatial distribution of GIS positions internationally as well as the distribution of women in GIS.

http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2014/womeningis/

Google for the wrist...

What is this likely to mean for location based services?  Toy stores nearby is mentioned in the video - but if you account for the potential to do heart monitoring and pedometer or similar body monitoring, there's massive potential for LBS to be individually aware.  Yet another layer of info to mine from.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027846/google-just-revealed-the-first-usable-smartwatch-interface

Map of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks

http://www.cfr.org/interactives/GH_Vaccine_Map/#map

An interactive map which visually plots global outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, and other diseases that are easily preventable by inexpensive and effective vaccines.

Global Health Program at the Council for Foreign Relations

Actually...

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/

Parallel processing in python

https://medium.com/building-things-on-the-internet/40e9b2b36148

Info on parallel processing in Python - good potential for GIS users!