Hurricane Tracking Map via New York Times

The awesome cartographers at the New York Times strike again, this time giving us a beautiful and interactive web map showing the track, wind speed and the projected track of Hurricane Irene, which is hitting the east coast of the U.S. right now. You can go back and forth between a simple Google Maps basemap or use an aerial photo from today (Aug 26) or August 24. Check the wind speed graph too.

Thanks, @elguary, for the tweet.

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Rugged Cover for the iPad2

I've been trying out an iPad2 for use in the field this summer. One must have 3G/wifi but it does seem like one could do real-time mapping on these things. Now I found a rugged case. It's by Griffin Technologies and it's called a Survivor.

Funny thing is is that this case looks just like the ruggedized case we used on our circa 2003 tablet PCs (HP TC1100, to be exact). Those were awesome but when the newer tablet PCs came out, there was no similar rugged case to buy, the new models were strictly business use-style.

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