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Research Related Links
- High-precision repeat gravity research - this is
the pre-release site; it is not updated often, and generally arcane.
Feel free to browse.
- U.S. Time Zone GMT Offsets
- utah-g3d - a simple block-based 3d
gravity modeling engine; written in ANSI C and Python
- Thermal Geophysics Research
Group
- G&G GPS
System - information and reservation system for the Trimble 4700
system
- OPUS - NGS runs a free
GPS position analysis system based on RINEX data files and the CORS
continuous GPS network. Very useful for small projects needing only a
couple of positions.
- Moki Marbles - photos from a field trip to
photograph Moki Marbles (Fe concretions in sandstone) for an
image-processing project comparing Utah concretions to Mars.
- LCWTP Project - potential field surveys over
the Little Cottonwood Water Treatment Plant, SLC; includes data and a
lab exercise for students using GM-SYS.
- Class Web Pages - pages for classes I have TA'd;
contain information, graphs of scores, etc.
- Utah Topo
Maps & Aerial Photos - 1:24k, 1:100k, etc. topo sheets in TIFF
and JPEG format for the whole state. DOQ images at 1 & 4 m for the
whole state. Hosted by Utah Division of Water Rights,
and an excellent example of what government web sites should be like.
- mathworld - web pages
describing most of theoretical math; very, very useful for the
scientist.
- Grass 5 Documentation - HTML documentation
and man pages for GRASS 5, a free GIS system.
- Utah
Mesonet DB - Database of Utah meteorological data
- U of
Utah Thesis/Dissertation Guidelines - hosted by UU School of Computing, 2002
version
- Python Documentation
- on www.python.org
- Tkinter Documentation -
on www.python.org
- Java
Documentation - on java.sun.com
- Serial port data acquisition in Java
- About terra
- Office Information
Miscellaneous Links
- Random Kitten
Picture - a site off of a blog that randomly chooses a picture of a
cute kitten or three. Good for telling yourself that not all is bad
and awful with the world....
- Schlock Mercenary - a good
web comic with an excellent sense of humor and some reasonable physics
for far-future rayguns and FTL travel. An example quote, in banner
form:
- Earth Impact
Calculator - computes effects of a specified impact; try using
relativistic velocities to see why orbital railguns are the WMD of
choice for Sci-Fi books.
- Athlon benchmarking - an
experiment to see how fast some Athlon machines really are
- How to tie the Pratt Knot
- Princeton's Population
Clock - the (est.) population of the world, in real-time.
- The Dead Media Project
- Everything you ever wanted to know about dead communication forms
- Pictures from
Skokie Lodge; these are from the February, 1998 trip.
- Why go to Space?
- Living Steel notes and documents -
Includes a complete reworking of the original Leading
Edge Games concepts for starship propulsion and related technology.
There are now reasons for restrictions, and some "realistic" physics
introduced. Also has notes on new forms of weapons of mass destruction
and the history of S4.
- Matrix: End of the Machines - How I would
like to see the Matrix series end.... [N.B. - not official, condoned, or
endorsed; use for whatever at your own risk]
- Proof that Heaven is hotter than Hell -
elegant application of basic physics to metaphysical questions
- Security Council Crisis - MUNUC XI
SC Crisis from 7 Feb 1999
- An article on patents
in the digital age - by James Gleick. Discusses the absurd patents
being currently issued, and why they are threatening to stop
innovation.
- A rant against copy protection,
by a member of the EFF and founder of Cyngus Software; from 19 Jan 2001
- ROASM - random philosphical essays
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