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Not too long ago, Upton Tea was having trouble sourcing Yunnan Gold tea because most of the production had shifted to Pu Erh teas. Well, now the bubble has burst and the effect on the composition of Yunnan’s tea production is anybody’s guess.  In my experience, there is some basis for the health claims made [...]

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This is a good thing for both the standards setting community and the open source community: OGC and OSGeo Sign Memorandum of Understanding | OGC® With respect to goals and objectives, both communities have an obvious  natural affinity. I’m encouraged to see this finally happened.

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From Boston.com, an interesting piece of journalism about the growing ubiquity of maps. The article cites several examples of  the effect of this ubiquity, which can be applied for good (monitoring global climate change) or bad (Mumbai siege). Incidentally, I posted a while back about the cartograms from Mark Newman. Newman quite accurately sums up [...]

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Happy New Year, everyone! Very interesting animation of the growth of Wal-Mart’s store locations. It would be interesting to see an accompanying real-time graph with some statistical interpretation, such as rate of growth, sales volume, revenue, etc. Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

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