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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
  • Java API docs for 1.4.2 - on java.sun.com
  • Java Comm API documentation - on java.sun.com
• Serial port data acquisition in Java

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Useful links
• Factory service manuals for 1990, 1993 Jeeps
• International Relations and Security Network - IR and security news gathered by the Swiss at ETH Zurich
• National Weather Service Forecast for SLC
• Current GOES Satellite Pictures
  • Western ConUS - IR
  • Western ConUS - Visible
• NASA's Visible Earth - Lots of satellite/space imagery; much of it free at full res.
• Background image archive - images from various sources I use for backgrounds
• Shneier on Security
• Colas Nahaboo X mouse wheel scroll page
• Linux Firewall Tools
• An Atlas of Cyberspaces
• The Jargon File - translate all that hacker-speak into "plain" English.

Hobby Related links
• Metalworking - pages on metalworking, projects, welding, etc.
• Firearms - pages on firearms, ammunition, etc.
• Wasatch Mountain Club - for all your hiking, climbing, biking, boating, etc. needs
• Some climbing/mountaineering pages
• Amphion Project - my foray into Open Source software and Java. A client-server jukebox system for playing MP3 files held on a server.

Miscellaneous Links
• Random Kitten Picture - a site 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.
• 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
• random philosphical essays

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