by Donald Brands/Capt. Don Brands

More years ago than I care to admit, I was a junior quartermaster on a Coast Guard Cutter. I had the job of maintaining and looking up all sorts of nautical information and Federal laws. In the age of paper this could sometimes be a daunting task. It could take hours if you didn’t fully know your way through the labyrinth of paper produced by our government. (I didn’t) Today you can find this information on the Internet very quickly.

Another source of difficulty and expense in the age of paper was to acquire, pay for and store all of the necessary charts and publications necessary to properly operate a vessel. Today you can search government records and download charts, publications and other nautical information directly from the Internet. Furthermore, what a lot of people don’t realize is that the US government gives away all of this information for free. It’s free as long as you access and download it yourself in electronic form over the Internet.

You can still buy paper versions, but even these are no longer provided by the government. They are reprints from government information. Some are authorized reprints under government sanction and others have no legal/official value as they lack that sanction.

All vessels can download these electronic publications for free. Commercial vessels can still be in full compliance with the laws for carriage of this information as long as they can show a correction procedure for them and redundancy. It is required to have a backup computer system for this data. Nautical charts can be carried in electronic form as well, but most commercial interests are still required to carry paper charts anyway. They can use the electronic variety, but paper charts need to be available. That will probably change in the near future. Pleasure vessels do not have these restrictions.

I have actually taken a two week trip from Louisiana to New York using only my laptop computer for reference and navigation. Be sure to have a backup in the form of paper or another computer (I did) anything can happen.

This ebook is a list of the various websites that I have found to be of use to the mariner. Some is real time information, like weather and sea conditions; other sites are for the charts and pubs that I have been discussing. Besides being extremely useful and convenient, these sites could save you anywhere from $100 to $1000 or more depending on your cruising area or voyage intentions. All web locations are hyperlinked for easy reference.

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by Labtronics Inc.

ELN and the Paperless Lab is a new book on ELN (Electronic Laboratory Notebooks) that covers a full range of topics, everything from explaining ELN basics to managing a successful ELN project. Labtronics, an industry leader in the ELN market space, has collected some of the best articles about Electronic Laboratory Notebooks that have been written in the last couple of years and assembled them into a 150 page book. Also included are special articles that have been written specifically for this book by industry experts. ELN and the Paperless Lab answers the questions that are most important to anyone who is using, or considering using an Electronic Laboratory Notebook in a laboratory.

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202 Tips to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Online
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by Cory Doctorow

Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.Hailed by Bruce Sterling as ‘a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,’ the Internet’s favorite high-tech culture maven is celebrated with the first collection of his infamous articles, essays, and polemics. Irreverently championing free speech and universal access to information-even if it’s just a free download of the newest Britney Spears MP3-he leads off with a mutinous talk given at Microsoft on digital rights management, insisting that they stop treating their customers as criminals. Readers will discover how America chose Happy Meal toys over copyright, why Facebook is taking a faceplant, how the Internet is basically just a giant Xerox machine …

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20 Things I Learned About Browsers And The Web
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20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web is a short guide for anyone who’s curious about the basics of browsers and the web. Here’s what you’ll find here:

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The (VERY) Unofficial Guide To Facebook Privacy
To fully understand the privacy of Facebook and how it’s likely to evolve, you need to understand one thing…Facebook executives want everyone to be public. As the service evolves, executives tend to favor our open access to information, meaning information you think is private will slowly become public, but that doesn’t mean you can be private if you want to. Facebook gives its users the option to lock things down, but users need to be aware of their controls, how to use them and how to prepare for future Facebook privacy changes. Facebook has not and will not make information obvious, and that’s where this guide comes in.

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