Snowy blizzard in Boise. No "Blue Moon" photo tonight, New Years Eve. Maybe next time.
Happy New Year everyone!

Watched video "A marvellous humming bird display" mating display of spatuletail filmed in slow motion (via @petapixel)
http://ping.fm/84vAZ

There is a "Blue Moon" on New Year's Eve. First time since 1990. Explanation via science.nasa.gov) I'll try to photo
http://ping.fm/cpyM1

Read "Cities embrace mobile apps, 'Gov 2.0" Trend to new era of grassroots democracy. (Via @ JeffHarrison)
http://ping.fm/lbbzD

Structured Data is one of Top 5 Web Trends of 2009. Web service examples provided (via @PulseonTech @ReadWriteWeb)
http://ping.fm/kUzea

Read / "Big oil gets the biggest U.S. energy subsidies of all" (via @timoreilly @seanjoreilly)
http://ping.fm/8UUus

Google Maps adopting US NDSI & provides updated & authoritative national & local data to the public (via @jeffHarrison)
http://ping.fm/jtOTH

RT @petapixel: Amazing vanishing point photography: http://j.mp/5FHtvG

Read Naomi Klein's article today "For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big to Blow" http://ping.fm/UGDpb

Read @hrheingold / best "Why use Twitter" piece. (via @timoreilly @jamesoreilly)
http://bit.ly/87ovBD

Read "The Google Maps Data API & Google Fusion API News" simple solutions to 80% of queries (via James Fee GIS Blog)
http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/12/16/the-google-maps-data-api-and-google-fusion-api-news/

Produced a 3D Google Earth & Google map Watershed Restoration project in Alaska with 360 panoramas and HD videos.
http://ping.fm/bRSkM

NASA 10yr time lapse satellite images (Yellowstone & other global locations) - some in Google Earth (via @JeffHarrison) http://ping.fm/vFvvL

New iPhone GIS App ( Geographic Information System Layers) Idaho included (via Integrity Logic)
http://ping.fm/PLZzH

Watched video & played audio "Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light" (via NASA News)
http://ping.fm/FbcpQ

Watched video showing "A new way to unfold the Earth's surface produces a new kind of map" (via @novaspivack) http://ping.fm/PdQQB

Read Nova Spivack blog post - "The Web Wide World -- The Web Spreads Into the Physical World" http://ping.fm/MUvar

Checked out "BirdsEye!" New iPhone App harnesses the power of eBird. " Best invention since binoculars.(via eBird.org) http://ping.fm/6oRph

Reviewed "All About Birds "Take Part in the Scientific Process with Citizen Science" (via Cornell Lab of Ornithology) http://ping.fm/FieWq

Read Jose Antonio Vargas "Transcript: Q&A with Al Gore" on the "Internet & Future of American Politics." http://ping.fm/t5Huq

Read Jose Antonio Vargas article -"The Goracle -- Al Gore, the Internet and the Future of American Politics." http://ping.fm/W0cCb

Checked out the Encyclopedia of Life's snazzy new "Learning + Education Website."
http://ping.fm/qAxxl

Looked at absolutely fantastic photographs of "Spiral Blue Light" in sky above Norway. (via @petapixel)
http://ping.fm/DjOKU

Read commentary by Olivia Judson, " A Wild Celebration" - 2010 is the 'International Year of Biodiversity'
http://ping.fm/8o3bP

Read "Why Citizen Participation May Be An Illusion" and comments. via Andrea DiMaio Blog.
http://ping.fm/7wpq8

New generation of US Topo maps are available at no cost in a GeoPDF Format. Free tools allow editing.
http://ping.fm/Yvzqs

via Ron Lake's Blog - GeoWeb and the "Internet of Things" /Internet + Internet of Things = Wisdom of the Earth /Chinese
http://ping.fm/Mny1n