XM Radio has a deal on XM WX SatelliteXM Radio has a deal ($0 activation and 1 free month) currently going. I found out about this in the Nobeltec Newsletter and couldn't find anything on the XM Radio site about it. Here are the details for the discount: Use this promo code when you call into XM...

The Boater Information System (or BIS Portal) from the Washington Sea Grant and APL UW is a pretty cool site that allows you to overlay wind, tide, current information on a map. The site is completely custom and worked great for me in IE7.0. As an example of one of the things you do, I love this view...

NOAA announced back in August that it had PORTS data available for the lower Columbia . Well woop dee doo is what I thought because I had no idea what it is, so I dug in a little bit and poked around and ya know what its pretty cool! Basically you can now go to one site to find graphics of wind, air...