Election Day!

Election Day! Check out some election maps.

Happy Halloween!

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Happy Halloween. Have fun and be safe! And don't forget to vote because nothing is scarier than four more years of the status quo.

Sixpoint's new brewery, ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 Seminar, bike parking survey & ROCK THE VOTE

Phillies win - congrats to them and their fans...
Sixpoint plans on a new brewery facility in Brooklyn. This should give some more brewery visit variety in BKYN (other than Brooklyn Brewery).

Just attended the ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 Seminar to learn about the newest additions to the ArcGIS software suite. Click here to get a quick overview video of some the new tools.

The Gowanus Lounge wants you to take a bike parking survey.

And don't forget to vote at your nearest polling location and check out the election map. No Impact Man is pushing for Obama. So is NYGEOG!

Planners Network NYC with screening of Twilight Becomes Night a film about local business & Free Dr. Pepper b/c of Guns and Roses album

Planners Network NYC & The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership present: DISORIENTATION 2008 - A Progressive Planning Networking Event

Tuesday, October 28: 6:00 – 10:00 PM @
Tamboril (http://tamborilnyc.com)
527 Myrtle Avenue
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
G to Clinton/Washington or Classon

$1 PBR all night, 2 for 1 cocktails until 7:30

Film screening @ 7:30
Twilight Becomes Night - a film that follows the stories of five neighborhood stores in New York City and reveals the role that locally-owned businesses play in our individual lives and neighborhoods.
http://twilightbecomesnight.com
Followed by Q&A with director/filmmaker Virginie-Alvine Perrette

Planners Network NYC is the local New York City chapter of Planners Network, which is an international association of professionals, activists, academics, and students who use urban and rural planning as a tool for social, economic, and environmental justice.
Planners Network: http://www.plannersnetwork.org PN-NYC Email listserv -
http://groups.google.com/group/pn-nyc

PN-NYC Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5875871261
The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership oversees the economic revitalization of Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
http://www.myrtleavenue.org


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Free Dr. Pepper from Guns and Roses Release.

6+ million tires, Irish music in Belfast (and in NYC) & Google helps find polling locations

EarthisSquare asks can you spot 6+ Million tires from an aerial photograph?

In its now peaceful times the city of Belfast has its pubs filled with live traditional irish music. The NY Times presents this great article and profile of some of the best bars in Belfast. In New York City my favorite place to see live irish music is on Tuesday nights at Dempsey's Pub on 2nd Ave and 4th St.

image from Dempsey's website



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And with Election Day coming up, Google helps find polling locations using this tool:

CMJ starts today, Bat mortality and wind turbines & Quantum GIS web html mapping tool

The CMJ Music Marathon starts today. Make your custom schedule here. What is CMJ?

Reminding me of my GIS-based wind turbine siting GIS Master's research, treehugger has reported on bat mortality and wind turbines.

Ogr2layers could turn out to be a great tool. Supposedly I am updating all my Quantum GIS's (at home and work) to version 11 and then will add this plugin.

Phillies to World Series, NIM on impacts, iPhone location apps & plumber Joe's latest pickups

It's definitely sunny in Philadelphia - Phillies make it to the World Series. Rays are one game away from beating the Red Sox to get there.
After hearing the presidential candidates discuss his life in such detail last night, plumber Joe might just consider something brash. Anyway, No Impact Man addresses a point made; if environmentalism is about use less stuff, make less impact, have less effect, might we all be better if we just committed suicide? Might not that be the easier solution?

Or maybe plumber Joe will go crazy trying to find out which iPhone location application fits him best.
With all of his new tax breaks maybe plumber Joe is in the market for Apple's latest line of brick (one solid piece of aluminum that saves materials and lightens the computer) laptops or a Google phone.