tingilinde

hot up north

steve — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:27:15 -0400

Very warm weather in Alaska - a most unusual pattern.

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EXCITEMENT ABOUNDED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHEASTERN PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND AS UNUSUALLY HOT TEMPERATURES WERE FELT ACROSS THE REGION. FOR THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS . . . HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS HAVE BEEN TIED OR BROKEN . . . BUT TODAYS TEMPERATURES SOARED BEYOND ANYTHING PREVIOUSLY SEEN IN THIS AREA.

IN VALDEZ . . . THE DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORD OF 75 DEGREES SET IN 1997 WAS SHATTERED WHEN . . . AT 45 MINUTES AFTER 3 PM...THE MERCURY IN OUR THERMOMETER SHOT UP TO 90 DEGREES. AFTER A BRIEF DIP BACK INTO THE UPPER 80S . . . THE MERCURY AGAIN REGISTERED 90 DEGREES AT 15 MINUTES BEFORE 6 PM.

THIS ALSO CRUSHED THE ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR ANY DAY OF THE YEAR . . . AND FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE . . . WHICH WAS 87 DEGREES AND WAS ACHIEVED TWICE . . . ON BOTH THE 25TH AND THE 26TH OF JUNE IN 1953. A LOCAL WEATHER SPOTTER IN TOWN RECORDED A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 87 DEGREES NEAR THE HOSPITAL DURING THE MID-AFTERNOON HOURS TODAY AS WELL. SUN-WORSHIPERS WERE OUT IN FORCE THROUGH THE MID TO LATE EVENING HOURS . . . AS THE TEMPERATURE AT 10 PM WAS STILL AN ASTOUNDING 77 DEGREES.

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almost ten years

steve — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:01:00 -0400

In a few days tingilinde will be a decade old. This marks the 12,000^th post - something that seems better to mark than the ten year point.

It started out as an extension of the crandall surf report 2.0, which was an extension of the csr 1.0, which - in turn - was an extension of a mailing list that started a few months after the Mosaic browser was released. The notion was just a few words and perhaps a link about whatever seemed interesting. Probably half of the links come from friends and it formed something of a middenheap or perhaps an odd diary.

To date tingilinde has cost a bit over $1,000 in hosting and bandwidth costs (it is a bit over 17M page visits to date) and generates zero income although there have been a few books and music reviews where I note they have given me a book or piece of music to review. (If anyone wants to give me a Mac Pro after they are released at the end of the year, I'll be more than happy to review it ... the same goes for nice camera kit. A Sony RX1 would make for an interesting review:-)

squiggle the mongoose

steve — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:03:00 -0400

The behavior is not that different from a ferret kit

the values of his party

steve — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:47:00 -0400

It is remarkable how those who speak of personal responsibility and God often line their own nests.. this is just too good

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

and of course diminish the rights of others.. particularly women

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

The good news is they are aging out and being replaced by other groups. The bad news is it isn't happening quickly enough (of course the Dems have problems too, but this is a different level).>br>tip of the hat to Larry

bill nye on climate change

steve — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:51:01 -0400

Scientists talking about climate change has been unsuccessful given the well funded anti-climate change establishment's funding and reach. It may be that education is not possible in the US, but Bill Nye is going to give it a crack trying his science popularizer approach. Hopefully he'll see some success

natural sounds

steve — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:19:00 -0400

A WNYC Soundcheck interview of the director of the Macaulay Library's extensive audio collection - about 150,000 samples

An amazing resource!

Also recommended is The Great Animal Orchestra by Bernie Krause. I link to the iBook version which has higher quality audio than the Kindle flavor. Of course it should be listened to with good headphones or speakers rather the internal speakers to hear the detail. A downside is iBooks current doesn't work on laptops, although that supposedly chanages in a few months.

the developing car user experience

steve — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:46:00 -0400

The operation of the Ford model T from the early 20s. Within five years much of what we expect to be in a modern car had been developed.

what we've avoided to point ...

steve — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:08:00 -0400

except at the beginning..

A dramatic look at the cold war. A representatation of all of the nuclear detonations through 1998 in locatoin, size and country. It starts slowly, but then takes on a disturbing pattern.

And this short video of the most powerful H bomb ever tested - about 3,500 times as powerful as the device that was used against Hiroshima.

glasses

steve — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:54:15 -0400

style

an except from john ellis' new american revolutionary war book

steve — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:02:00 -0400

Its getting great reviews - Salon has an excerpt.

why we're good at exercise, but tend to dislike it

steve — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:32:00 -0400

As explained by an evolutionary biologist (Slate via New Scientist)

safe computing guide

steve — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:58:44 -0400

from one of the serious experts

The three golden rules to ensure computer security are: do not own a computer; do not power it on; and do not use it. —Robert Morris Sr

the navy stopped shouting

steve — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:09:00 -0400

Navy messages can now use lower case characters. (via NPR)

a little east coast tsunami

steve — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:37:00 -0400

A small tsunami as seen at Woods Hole on Cape Cod on June 13^th

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"We noticed this huge surge of water going out of the harbor almost like a riptide with waves building up at the entrance," Limberakis recalled. "Then it suddenly surged back into the harbor."

That back and forth surge of water continued for about an hour, Limberakis said, and then it was gone.

"It was the strangest thing I'd ever seen," he said. "I've been here since I was a kid, and I've never seen anything like it."

It was a tsunami, said U.S. Geological Survey oceanographer Jeff List, whose office is in Woods Hole. It just wasn't the earthquake- or landslide-generated surges people know and fear. This was a fairly rare meteotsunami, which originates with changes in atmospheric pressure.

Think of the intense low pressure in the center of a hurricane, which has a barometric pressure significantly lower than the air around it. The decreased downward force on the water allows water at the center of the storm to rise into a mound that is higher than the level of the surrounding ocean.

When a large front moves out over the sea, like one that moved offshore Thursday, there is a similar difference between the air pressure of the front and the air over the ocean. That drop in air pressure mounds up the water beneath it and, if the speed of the incoming weather system matches that of the deep water waves below, it can generate a tsunami, just like one generated by an earthquake or a landslide.

"Once it's released it's a tsunami," List said. "When it encounters a V-shaped bay on the coast, it can get amplified."

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(tip of the hat to David)

statuesque modeling

steve — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:02:00 -0400

How classic - as noted by Jheri