While cleaning out the server today, I stumbled upon this small collection of weather links that I had assembled in August, 2009. The links are mostly imagery and models for hurricane tracking.

• NRL Monterey Marine Meteorology Tropical Cyclone Page
• Geostationary Satellite Imagery
• Geostationary Satellite Server
• Satellite Information and Links
• US South Plains Radar Mosaic
• LSU Earth Scan Laboratory
• FSU Experimental Forecast Models
• StormJunkie Links

I use RunKeeper and my phone's GPS to track my outdoor activities that cover any sort of distance. Tonight I initiated the tracking about a fifth of a mile into my walk and wanted to edit the data afterward to include the complete walk. After uploading the data to RunKeeper, I downloaded it in KML form on my Mac. Next, I used the RunKeeper website to create and download another KML file containing the missing segment. GpsPrune made it easy to merge the two KML files and export as one. Finally, I wanted to upload the data back to RunKeeper, but it only accepts GPX or TCX files when uploading. KML2GPX saved the day with a quick conversion, and now my track is live.

I have been reading up on microcontrollers quite a bit lately. Following are the links I have found to be informative.

Arduino

• Arduino Electronic Brick Starter Kit and Sensor Shield
• ArduPilot
• OpenSprinkler
• Tiny Circuits
• Use the TP-Link TL-WR703N to send Arduino sensor data
• YABBAS - Yet Another Bare Bones Arduino (on Stripboard)

Raspberry Pi

• 47 Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build
• Raspberry Pi Car Cam overlaid with OBD data
• AlaMode
• RPi Expansion Boards

Other Microcontrollers

• Freescale mbed
• Pi vs BeagleBone-Black
• Beagleboard on github

Low Power

• Efficiently operate the Arduino GSM shield with a battery pack
• Low Power Library for Arduino
• Power saving techniques for microprocessors
• narcoleptic: a sleep library for Arduino

Stores

• Adafruit
• Gravitech
• Newark
• Sparkfun

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Music for Shuffle #01 from Matt Brown.

Read all about it here.

via Netherland

“I love churches, and also the music of J.S. Bach, and many other side-effects of the experience of faith, even though that experience is foreign to me; just can’t get around certain habits of thought involving reproducible evidence and Occam’s razor.” —Tim Bray

I just stumbled across the above image in the home office today. That's the ticket to the Sean Lennon show at Gypsy Tea Room. I think it was the last show at that classic venue—or at least one of the last few shows. We left early because Enzo's in utero fondness for music made his mom feel ill.

Some links I have collected recently on the topic of full manual photography. No autofocus or light meters here.

• BLACK CAT Extended Range Exposure Guide
• Andrew Lawn's Exposure Calculator
• Human Rangefinder Card Generator