Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Sporcle is a website that challenges you to list certain things in a limited amount of time. The link I provided asks you to list all of the countries in Europe in 10 minutes, which is quite difficult when you realize how many small Eastern Bloc countries there are.

USGS Student Jobs is a helpful service for students looking to find jobs in the fields of geology, geography, or many of the other natural sciences within the United States Geological Survey.

XKCD is a very humorous comic whose main audience is computer engineers and mathematicians. However, everyone once in awhile, he author creates a comic pertaining to geography. Dr. Hallden showed one of XKCD's comics in class, and I feel this is another humorous one pertaining to maps, and our blind faith in following them.

No comments: