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Trust in Information
 Recently, like a lot of others, I have been fascinated with watching the developments of hurricane Rita. I've come across all different types of new and interesting sources on the web. Some trust worthy, some not-so-much, but interesting none-the-less.
I've been a little disappointed in Google actually. I know they have a lot of automated crawling going on there, but in a time like this, it would be nice to see them make some effort to go out and harvest the latest info, especially from government sites, particuarly dealing with evacuation information.
I see some information on the Interweb as bad, non-productive, misleading, false, un-reliable, and a host of other attributes, but in some I find the opposite. In fact, I find some information on the Interweb very provocative, enlightening, interesting, entertaining and so on. Anyway, enough of this speil, I give you some interesting links to keep updated/educated on this hurricane:
AOML | NOAA : The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) is one of the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Facilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
NHC | NOAA : Publication of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce. Detailed maps, charts, plots of hurricane Rita data.
JPL | NASA | TOPEX : The joint U.S.-French Topex/Poseidon mission is managed by the JPL for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
GOES | NASA | NOAA : The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)/ Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) program is a key element in National Weather Service (NWS) operations.
OPDB | NOAA | NASA | GOES : OPDB, the Operational Products Development Branch, conducts applied research on the use of geostationary and polar satellite data for the analysis of significant meteorological, and surface-based phenomena.
9.22.2005
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