There was a bomb threat in downtown Reykjavik today, near the main Government Building. The police have released some photos of one suspect. Amazingly they haven’t found the person yet,…
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The Busiest Bus Stops in Reykjavik
Here’s a small applet, which allows you to navigate through Reykjavik Bus data. Green = people entering the bus. Red = people leaving the bus. [applet code=”busExplorer” file=”http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/busExplorer.jar,http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/core.jar,http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/GLGraphics.jar,http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/log4j-1.2.15.jar,http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/opengl.jar,http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Unfolding.jar” width=500 height=500…
Are Odd Years Bad for Handball Players?
The Handball European Championship 2012 is underway in Serbia. That’s fun. I remember the book SuperFreakonomics having a chapter about birthdays of pro soccer players. They tend to be born…
"Where is Everybody?" Most Popular Bus Stops in Reykjavik.
Here are some pictures representing the most popular bus stops in the Greater Reykjavik public transport systems. See the comparison between 8 o’clock and 16 o’clock maps. One can see…
Mapping the Bus Stations in Capital Area
I am currently working on a project to map the bus transport in Iceland. I have a full list of all BUS stations along with their internal IDs (see here: names).…
Track Record of ESA in the EFTA Court
In yesterday‘s post we talked about the track record of the Efta Surveillance Authority against the Republic of Iceland in the EFTA Court. Here‘s a short comparison of how the other…
In the News
The Icelandic TV station “Stöð 2” quotes PaBaMapa’s post on the Iceland v. ESA track record in the EFTA Court. You can find it here: (in Icelandic): http://visir.is/section/MEDIA99&fileid=VTV28956165-0DC8-445B-B564-77B632FA96D0
EFTA Surveillance Authority v. Republic of Iceland
Iceland has been taken to court by the EFTA Surveillance Authority in connection with the long-running IceSave dispute. This is not the first time. In the years since the establishing…
What Politics Does to You
This one is a bit personal. The author of this humble blog recently participated, along with 24 people, in the Constitutional Council of Iceland. Here’s one photo from the first…
EU – Fiscal Union – Who’s In and Who’s Out?
The recent EU-summit produced some news, whether it produced results is not yet clear. The leading pair France and Germany were pushing for a fiscal Union of the EU. In…