Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-10-2009

[anuran]

• Birmingham first city entirely mapped on OpenStreetMap
  the alternative to useless googlemaps maps Birmingham.
  (tags: mapping news)
• National Nest Box Week 14 - 21 Feb 09
  Rather than sitting in the dark crying to Celine Dion all day, why not spend Valentines building a bird box to put up in your garden? It'd be nice to have something to watch and wile away the miserable decades of silent, desperate loneliness your future surely holds.
  (tags: birds)
• Seabird 2000
  The results of the last big seabird census, conducted ever 15ish years
  (tags: seabirds)
• Polar Jobs
  Blog keeping track of jobs advertised for work in the polar regions
  (tags: jobs)
• As if the weather wasn't bad enough: gritting the roads with salt is also bad news for our streams, rivers and reservoirs - and the creatures in them
  I was ranting about this at Hannah's the other night
  (tags: doom)
• Liberian crop pest mystery solved
  Mystery worm plague solved - hungry hungry caterpillars endemic to the area, but on a scale never before seen and thought to be linked to a change in weather patterns.
  (tags: doom news)

Comments

[zz]

i tried contributing to openstreetmap a few years ago, but the crapness of my gps and their data entry software (although it had great potential), and having other things to do...