Archives: June 2010
Tue Jun 29, 2010
Another simulation of everything
Interesting blog by Gobion Rowlands about the FuturICT proposal for "a techno-socio-economic-ecological knowledge accelerator Global-Scale Simulation of Socio-Economic-Environmental Systems?" More...
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Sun Jun 06, 2010
What happened to Second Life?
A posting in Second Life, a Second Chance? blog helps me understand why I seem to hear so much less about SL these days.
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Simulations of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: a study in comparative openness.
The official US govenrment site contains excellent documentation of sightings and a list of sofgtware tools including:
- GNOME:, the "General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment) is the oil spill trajectory model used by OR&R Emergency Response Division (ERD) responders during an oil spill.".
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Wed Jun 02, 2010
The end of NLEs?
Homeland Security Watch has a post asking 'Does the nation need a national level exercise programme'? More...
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Tue Jun 01, 2010
Gunman in hospital, again....
Great story in the Las Vegas Sun - a hospital used an armed man to simulate a terrorist attack, but forgot to tell staff this was an exercise. More...
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