hobolinks :: June :: 2006

Gadling aptly describes this site as a clearinghouse of outdoor links.

“Doodle up a google map.” A google map, and some simple drawing tools let you create a map, save it, and publish it.

(Via ProgrammableWeb)

The World Conservation Union’s 2006 Red List of endangered species is out, citing over 16,000 known threatened species. I see 20 species assessed as extinct or extinct in the wild since the last report, but these assessments seem to take decades. I don’t think we’ll know what species have been lost recently for some time.

GoBlog has discovered a bunch of regional guides to sustainable seafood consumption. Nice.

Seems like we need a reminder of this now and then. Most sunscreens block the UVB spectrum, preventing a burn, but not the UVA that causes wrinkles and cancer.

Experts say the best protection against UVA is a sunscreen that includes zinc oxide, titanium dioxide or avobenzone.

(Via  GetOutdoors)

The article doesn’t include the photos, but reports that this rodent, once thought to be extinct for 11 million years, is alive and well.

It sounds like a fairy tale, but in Bangledesh it’s life.

It looks like DNA differences are the primary evidence that these sharks found off the coast of South Carolina are a separate species.

Apparently, 55 million years ago there were, and they enjoyed temperatures in the 70’s. Are we headed there again?

Three guys have set out to hike 1000 kilometers of Alaskan wilderness without resupply.  Good luck to them!

A community mashup of people’s favorite nature locations. Uses the GlobeExplorer map interface, which I haven’t seen much yet, but is draggable and seems fairly responsive.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video of the imposing Huber brothers climbing in the imposing Yosemite Valley.

(Via GetOutdoors Blog)

Yes indeed, that’s mailing address to geo coordinates right there in the API, along with a big imagery upgrade, Google Earth for Linux, etc, etc.  I guess now I’ll have to get cracking adding address entry wherever coordinates are typed…

Pretty clearly a typo, but still, who can resist the image of a climber caught by a rope snag after free falling for a couple of minutes?

(Via Stellar News)

I was happy to see that Paula at constanttrek has finally received a grant to continue her nomadic trek across the Sahara from the Timmissartok Foundation. Both have my congratulations and respect.

Everyone knows we should be recycling electronic waste, but nobody wants to get stuck with the bill.

First one, now two more species thought extinct have been rediscovered.  Over 700 are threatened.

Great, corn processors have finally found the giant hole they’ve been looking for, into which they can pour the nation’s subsidized, nitrogen-polluting corn surplus.

It may be a publicity stunt, but at least it’s a somewhat encouraging stunt.

This Google Maps mashup is generating its own contour layer, hoping to eventually cover whole world!

(Via Google Maps Mania)