Aaron Bycoffe bycoffe

don't blow your deadline
don't be wrong

The code will get better. Linus' Law: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow": we'll be able to get community contributions and bug reports, and thus the code will grow better faster than we can grow it ourselves. Also, Joy's Law - "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else": we'll get better code from people who don't work for us than from people who do.
We'll write better code. Wall's 3rd great virtual of a programmer, Hubris: we'll write better code people we don't want other people to say bad things about us. We'll do better with the world watching than with just us.
Increased ability to hire. We're a 19k circ newspaper in a town most people have never heard of. Open source will help put us on the map, make us a place people actually might be interested in working.
When we do hire, we'll be able to hire pe

Storytelling from Space: Tools/Resources

This list of resources is all about acquring and processing aerial imagery. It's generally broken up in three ways: how to go about this in Photoshop/GIMP, using command-line tools, or in GIS software, depending what's most comfortable to you. Often these tools can be used in conjunction with each other.

Acquiring Landsat & MODIS

Web Interface

USGS Earth Explorer - Browser and data access (create a login)
http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Landsat archive

	#!/bin/bash

	PASTEL='{
	"Ansi 0 Color" = {
	"Blue Component" = 0.3097887;
	"Green Component" = 0.3097887;
	"Red Component" = 0.3097887;
	};
	"Ansi 1 Color" = {
	"Blue Component" = 0.3764706;

	// PolylineEncoder.js copyright Mark McClure April/May 2007
	//
	// This software is placed explicitly in the public
	// domain and may be freely distributed or modified.
	// No warranty express or implied is provided.
	//
	// History:
	// V 2.1 July 2007
	// Minor modification in distance function to enhance
	// speed. Suggested by Joel Rosenberg.

	--[[

	Copyright (C) 2007 MySQL AB

	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

	Weekend potatoes (or Brotatoes, to annoy teenage sons)

	Yep, when you break it down, these are pretty simple. But they taste
	good like crack late on a Sunday morning.

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	INGREDIENTS
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	- a big-ass skillet (I use a 15-inch nonstick. Cast iron would be great.