Fellow Gulf Coast, Louisiana, Lake Charles, and McNeese folks: For more information about Hurricane Gustav, consult these websites!
* Get a Game Plan - Louisiana's Hurricane Preparedness Website with evacuation guides, hurricane tracking chart, and more.
* NOAA National Hurricane Center - Tracking all tropical storms and hurricanes, with frequent updates and advisories.
* Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
* McNeese Campus Status & Emergency Preparedness - Keep informed about McNeese State University's status and updates. Also lists resources for Lake Charles residents evacuation information.
* FEMA's Louisiana Hurricane Gustav Info Webpage
* NOAA's Watch on Hurricane Gutav with tracking maps, frequent updates and advisories.
* NASA's Earth Observatory page on Hurricane Gustav
Let's hope that the hurricane will, um, go away. We don't want to deal with another Hurricane Rita or Katrina all over again...
Good luck, and be safe!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Hurricane Gustav
Monday, August 25, 2008
Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is taking place in Denver, Colorado as I type this. According to the Denver's website on the DNC, 35,000 are expected to visit and featured speakers include Michelle Obama, Hillary & Bill Clinton, Joseph Biden, Al Gore, and, Barack Obama will speak on the last night of the convention.
If you want some more information about the convention, check out these web resources:
DemConvention.com - Official site of the Democratic National Convention that will be held in Denver, CO August 25th - 28th.
YouTube's Convention Page - YouTube has pages for both the democratic and republican convention with lots of video coverage.
CNN’s live streaming site will be carrying live coverage throughout both conventions.
Democratic Convention 2008 Fan Page - Become a fan of the 2008 Democratic convention and follow the action from your Facebook profile.
Barack Obama Fan Page - Become a fan of Obama and learn a little bit more about him.
Students For Barack Obama - A Facebook fan page specifically for students that support Obama.
BarackObama.com - The presumptive Democratic candidate for the Democratic party in the 2008 Presidential election.
Democrats.org - The official website of the national Democratic party.
Guide to the History of Republican and Democratic National Conventions - Poynter Online's compilation of web resources on the history of the Republican and Democratic National Political Conventions, 1856-2008. Take the Wikipedia entries they include with a grain of salt. Anyone can edit those entries!
Who is Joe Biden?
Want to more about Obama's choice for VP/running mate, Joe Biden? Here are some resources about him:
* Senator Joseph Biden's Official Website
* Biden's Bio. in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
* Search for bills that Biden sponsored at the THOMAS Congressional Legislation Database using the dropdown menu "Select a Senator" under the heading "Browse Bills by Sponsor".
* Track where Biden is quoted in the Congressional Record at GovTrack.us
* Washington Post's Voting Record page for Biden
* Biden's Facebook Fan Page
* Be Biden's friend on MySpace. Why not?
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Georgia On My Mind
The country of Georgia has been in the news quite a bit lately, but if you want to learn more, check out this extensive research guide created by the University of Colorado at Boulder Library.
NASA's Space Image Library
NASA and Internet Archive have launched an online image library of historic photographs, film and video available to the public for the first time. Twenty-one major Nasa imagery collections are now merged into a single searchable online resource. You can download the images and videos for free. Go check out the imagery from the Apollo missions or the stunning views of the universe from the Hubble Space Telescope! They make great desktop wallpapers...