Big Page O' Links
One rather large page of links. Yes, there may be some redundancy here. That's how I want it, for now, I think.
Here's a little table of contents type thing for this big page:
- Reference
- People
- Communications
- School
- Computers
- Atmospheric Physics
- Religion
- Comics
- Books
- Other Stuff
Reference
Search engines, directories, dictionaries, glossaries.
- Altavista
- My first favorite search engine. I now find it hard to use because I can't tell which results I've already visited. Babelfish, its automated translation service, is still useful sometimes.
- What can I say? The 800 pound gorilla of search engines.
- Teoma
- WiseNut
- Gigablast
- Amfibi
- AlltheWeb
- Dogpile
- A metasearch engine, searches with several search engines at once. I'm not quite sure what searching syntax to use with these things.
- Open Directory Project
- A human edited directory of the web. Covers alot of topics, rather nicely organized.
- Wikipedia
- "The free encyclopedia"
- The UCAR Acronym List
- Find out what acronyms used in atmospheric research mean. (UCAR: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
- American Meteorological Society Glossary
- A good glossary for meterological terms, well cross-referenced. "Along with the print version it should be the authoritative source for definitions of meteorological terms for many years to come."
People
Family and friends; people I know.
- Beth's Homepage
- Good friend from college. She's a graduate student at the University of Texas now.
- Jerry's Homepage
- keeping it simple ;c)
- Mom's school site
- My mom works at Cloudcroft Middle School. She has pages about her classes, her school schedule, and links to some helpful sites.
- one of Dad's pages
- A personal page of my dad, the "'semi-retired' college Prof"
- Misty K's art on Elfwood
- Another of my friends from college. She does some pretty awesome origami dragons.
- Misty S's art on Elfwood
- A friend from high school. As she says, her work is "heavily influenced by the anime style", but she really does give them her own lovely touch.
- Raymond's Homepage
- Dr. David J. Raymond, my former boss and advisor at Tech. He's a Professor of Physics there. Does a lot of work on atmospheric convection.
- Carlos's Homepage
- Carlos Lopez Carrillo, Research Scientist at Tech. We worked on data analysis and stuff for Dr. Raymond.
Communications
Email, instant messaging, and stuff.
- NMT Webmail
- Web access to NMT email.
- FastMail.FM
- AIM
- Quick Buddy and AIM Express. AIM Express has more bells and whistles but doesn't seem to work on Linux
School
- New Mexico Tech Homepage
- The offical homepage for New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT), also called New Mexico Tech (NMT). (Some of their menus seem to require Javascript.)
- New Mexico Tech Computer Center (TCC)
- Policies, hours, documentation, the message of the day, etc.
- Banweb
- Physics Department
- NMT Library
- Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research
Computers
Data Formats
- Candis
- C analysis and display.
- NetCDF
- network Common Data Format by Unidata. Some of the software/languages we use work well with netCDF, and it's easy to convert back and forth between Candis and netCDF format.
- NCSA HDF Homepage
- Hierarchical Data Format by NCSA. Some of the data we've run into is in HDF format.
Programming and Scripting
- Python
- Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, that combines power with clear syntax. An expansive standard library is distributed with the language.
- Bourne Shell
- An Introduction to the Unix Shell, Steve Bourne's original tutorial.
- Gri
- Gri is a command-driven language for scientific graphics programming. One data format it supports is netCDF.
- make
- Make is a tool which controls the generation of files. Make gets its
knowledge of how to build your target file from a file called the makefile, which lists each of the target files and how to compute it from other files. There are several versions of make. We have GNU make.
- GNU make
- The GNU make manual in several different formats
- Rlab
- "Our" lab by Ian Searle. Rlab is a high-level programming language whose focus is matrix math. It is no longer under active development. It is Matlab like, but is not intended to be a Matlab clone.
- Octave
- GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations, and is mostly compatible with Matlab.
Web Authoring
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- That big group in the sky that sets "official" standards for such things as HTML, XHTML, CSS, and the like. There's a lot of information here, which is good, but I can get rather overwhelmed by the sheer bulk of it. Also, much of it is very techincal, so it can be hard to follow at times.
- Web Design Group (WDG)
- Westciv's House of Style
- Index DOT at Blooberry
- Dan's Web Tips
- Web authoring and surfing by Jukka Korpela
- Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design
- CSS-discuss Wiki
- A List Apart
- CSS Pointers Group
- A lot of information about style sheets
- SelectORacle
- "English and Spanish translations of CSS3 selectors" allows you to enter some CSS into their form and it returns an explanation of what elements are being selected. Kind'a fun.
- NCSA's A Beginner's Guide to HTML
- The first I really learned about HTML was from an earlier version of this document. It doesn't cover everything, but I think it can be a good place to start.
- Optimizing Web Graphics: Which Color Palette?
- An article about different color palettes. It has pictures of that give the RGB color codes. This is the only page I've run across that talks about a different color palette for Unix and gives a key to its RGB codes too.
- StrangeBanana
Atmospheric Physics
Data Sources
- NGDC/WDC MGG, Boulder-Coastline Extractor
- This page lets you enter in the longitude-latitude bounds of the window your interested in and it (optionally) shows you a picture of the shoreline and gives you the dataset describing it in one of several formats. The "Matlab" format is really just a simple text file, which is easy to convert into Candis.
- QuikSCAT
- NASA's Quick Scatterometter. The QuikSCAT satellite measures the speed and direction of winds over the ocean by reflecting microwaves off of little water waves.
- Missions: Seawinds on QuikSCAT
- The WINDS page about the QuikSCAT mission. Gives a little history and some short descriptions of equipment and objectives and such.
- Index of ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/ocean_wind/quikscat/L3/
- Direct access to the Level 3 processed QuikSCAT data, and a more in depth description of the project, including meanings of flags and units of measurement in the data sets.
- Hurricane Tracks
- The National Hurricane Center (NHC) provide some formatted ASCII files of the "best" track of hurricanes in the Atlantic and the Eastern North Pacific. These are called HURDAT files.
- SSM/I
- Remote Sensing Systems
- ERA-40
- ERA-40
- Claus
- Claus
- NOAA Wind Profiler Database
- "The Tropical Dynamics and Climate Group of NOAA's Aeronomy Laboratory has been operating Wind Profiling Radars, or Wind Profilers, at several sites worldwide for many years. From this web site, interested researchers can download post-processed, quality-controlled wind and temperature profiles."
- The CODIAC System
Religion
- Beliefnet
- Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
- The Religious Movements Homepage Project
- Christian Forums
Comics
- Ucomics
- Seraph-Inn
- Home of Inverloch (completed) and The Phoenix Requiem both by Sarah Ellerton. She does lovely artwork and I really enjoyed Inverloch's story too. The Phoenix Requiem looks promising too.
- 9th Elsewhere
- Earthsong
- Undertow
- No Rest for the Wicked
- Dragon Mango
- A Miracle of Science
- completed
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- The Dreamland Chronicles
Books Online
Other Stuff
- Diamond Mine
- This game is not compatible with Unix or Macintosh computers.
- Webshots
- Socorro Public Library