Desktop GIS provides the basic functions of open source GIS tools in brief yet comprehensive manner. Novice users will benefit from the easy-to-follow text and images, while intermediate users might only look at certain sections to get the ArcGIS equivalents.

Pundits and analysts clamored for Hillary Clinton to bow out when she was losing all of those consecutive primaries to Barack Obama, but she stood her ground. Even after all of that Obama love universities and the media across the country showed, Clinton came right back to win Ohio and Texas.

Everyone wins with the high-def DVD format war, except Toshiba and its HD-DVD product.

Feature film budgets have spiraled out of control in recent years, and movie studios have done almost anything and mostly everything to control costs and trim expenses. It seemed inevitable that producers would start selling spots in their movies for certain products, and you can thank Steven Spielberg’s E.T..

Screenwriter Mike Werb has some impressive film credits on resume — at least from a male perspective. He shares responsibility for the bullet-spraying, complete disregard for public safety Face/Off. He should be praised for writing an Angelina Jolie shower scene in Tomb Raider. He helped solidify Jim Carrey’s rise to stardom in The Mask. His latest work is a script for the upcoming Tekken video game adaptation (before the WGA strike of course).