Fnord.

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HPWREN has a nice set of pictures and videos ranging in size and resolution that cover the fires from a variety of perspectives. Very cool and worth a look.

In the machine room, powering up the server and RAID chassis after a maintenance outage. These racks aren’t mine, but it made a nice picture.

From Scripps Institution of Oceanography:

SCCOOS has put together a collection of real-time data to support firefighting efforts in the 2007 Southern California wildfires, including meteorological station data, wind models, and satellite imagery.

We’ve also linked to the hpwren camera image site from our page.

You can find this data at:

http://www.sccoos.org/projects/fires2007

We appreciate your help in getting the word out to the community.

Ties together the previously-posted MODIS data plus weather and satellite visuals. Nice.

Wow. Click for source page.

From NASA, of course. This first one is from the QuikScat satellite, 7AM 10/22. Wind speed via reflected radar on the water surface. Click for source page.

The next one is visual, from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Aqua satellite. 250m/pixel, 10/2. Again, click for source.

Found via Science in the News, wonderful stuff. Quite the plume, eh? I also like how the vector field shows the offshore winds that fanned the flames. Very cool.

Additional coolness: KMZ file of the MODIS for Google Earth!

I’m using Google Reader these days for RSS, and it has an easy way to pseudo-blog via the ‘Share’ button. I’ve added a plugin to display them on the sidebar, lemme know what you think… you can also surf to my shared items here.

Seen in a sig block on Timezone:

Nap time today, the cat is nearby but not too close. Cute, eh?
This is another Postie test, if it works clicking the image will get you the full-sized version.

(iPhone camera)

Parking garage yesterday, I couldn’t help but notice how similar the car trunks all looked. Cd (drag coefficient) partially, lack of style imagination, who knows. Ours is nine years old now but doesn’t look much different from the rest.

Update 10/26: Daniel points out that this may not be new: (Click for source)

For a ‘free’ camera, I’m really enjoying the iPhone’s camera. Here’s a set I took while we did the weekly food shopping at the Hillcrest market. It’s a great place to people-watch, quite diverse clientele.

Meanwhile, back at home the cat had conquered Chris’s pillow and was basking.