China's Brown Clouds, Alaska's Last-Frontier Follies, Google Flu Map &Urban Mapping Developer Portal

Brown Clouds over China image from NY Times

This is scary: U.N. Report Sees New Pollution Threat - NY Times.

This is about Alaskan Politics: Tim Egan comments on Alaska's Last-Frontier Follies

This is Google's Flu Epidemiological app: Google Flu Map

This is a new Canadian Wind Farm: Melancthon EcoPower Centre, developed by Canadian Hydro

These are really sweet: DIY Ipod speakers

This is really cool: Urban Mapping Developer Portal

from Urban Mapping Inc.: Urban Mapping, Inc. (UMI) is a provider of geospatial data and services. Our URBANWARE™ data products are offered via web services and regular updates, allowing access to our database and computation logic for neighborhoods, other informally-defined geographic regions and transit systems. Through UMI's various APIs, developers are able to take advantage of our industry-leading local search products.

Through this developer portal, we provide code snippets, technical documentation and an interactive demo to help developers use UMI's data. You may register for our free neighborhood API and read more about what we offer.

This is sad: Drummer Mitch Mitchell from Jimi Hendrix Experience passed away