WDET FM: My favourite radio station,
from Wayne State University, with its progressive, forward-looking music.
This is the thing that my friends miss when they move out to another state.
Symantec Security Check: Provides IP tracing, useful for determining a particular IP address' location in
the globe. One caveat: probably works only if you're browsing from North America.
Weather and Maps:
NASA World Wind Application Demo: An open source 3D
Earth-viewing software developed by NASA that accesses NASA Jet Propulsion Lab database. Download is required as this is a Java
application that will run on your PC. Java required.
US
Doppler: From weather.com, this doppler radar data is useful to make
your own forecast of Michigan's weather today.
US IR:
From weather.com, this IR data collected from the satellites can give you
the forecast of today's sun exposure (sunny/cloudy)
US Surface and Temp Map,
The Weather World 2010 Project, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Useful for weather prediction in the US.
Kochi University Weather Home Page: Provides a more
comprehensive weather maps for the East Asia and Southeast Asia regions. The maps here are better than the American
sites since the areas of interest are at the center of the maps as opposed to the GOES satellite data in which the
regions are the edge of the maps.
TRMM, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, provides the cumulative rainfall in the tropical regions.
This data is useful to determine the trend in which rainfall is formed. The ITCZ, Inter-tropical Convergence Zone, moves around during the
summer/winter seasons and with it vast amount of tropical rain either on the Southern portion of Indonesia, or the Northern portion. TRMM can
provide a clue as to where the ITCZ is and thus the likelihood of rainfall in Indonesia.
Published
works of Laurens Van Der Post: An extraordinary person whose actions
had arguably shaped Indonesia's statehood. He was the Ad-Hoc British Military
Governor of the Dutch East Indies soon after Japanese capitulation. A compasionate,
courageous, and brave person, he has seen actions in the Jebel-Druze (sp?)
upraising, to the guerilla war in Bantam (i.e. present day Banten, West
Java). He survived in Japanese captivity, and later, out of his conscience,
helped his captor -his former enemy- during the transition of power in
the occupied Dutch East Indies.
HTML
Primer: Isn't it about time you write your own homepage? This guide
will help you get started in no time! Try it!
Here is a list of some of my friends who already have created their home
pages. Most of them are here at taiga. You will see them listed in the
main page of this this server (www.taiga.com). Many others are simply too
involved with whatever they are doing in whichever parts of the world that
they don't have a web page, or simply there is no internet where they live.
STMDP2: A bunch of friends
coming to the outside world with the hope of changing our future for our
families. Regardless of what others will say, it's really nothing fancy
- it's just that simple.
