Blue-Skies, a program written by University of Michigan student Alan Steremberg, offers Internet users graphical weather updates. You move the cursor across the map, and as it passes over, say, Denver, you get the weather for that city. Or double click on a town to get a full report. Other tools let you expand the map or cut part of the image.
Blue-Skies incorporates a file transfer protocol based on gopher. Whereas the Web mostly links images to text, Blue-Skies links text to images. The text, in this case weather data, is attached to a point on the screen.
Information on ozone holes, air pollution, and storms, as well as QuickTime movies of weather animations, can be downloaded using Blue-Skies as well. Get the software via ftp from madlab.sprl.umich.edu in the pub/Blue-Skies directory.
ELECTRIC WORD
A Day Without Boiled Angel Is Like a Day Without Sunshine
The Sound of Concrete Screaming
The Maryland Net: Almost Free, Almost Good
Data Storm
