Food

• Blackened Out – A blog devoted to eating in New Orleans
• NOLA Cuisine – A blog about cooking traditional New Orleans food.

GIS Resources

• Google Earth – The most powerful piece of free GIS software available.  Download it and be amazed at the amount of cars in your backyard.
• LSU Atlas - Louisiana State University’s geospatial database.  Includes a few years worth of aerial photographs, LIDAR elevation data and more.
• USDA Geospatial Data Gateway – United States Department of Agriculture’s Geospatial Data.  Includes tons of great aerial photographs, census data, roads and loads of other great GIS data.

History

• William T. Block, Jr. Historian – A historian that wrote about east Texas and Western Louisiana history.  Some fascinating articles.

More Gulf Coast Blogs!

• Adventures of A Yankee In Cajun Country – Local travel/adventure blog from a writer from the northeast who moved to Louisiana
• I Love Shelling – Both a shelling enthusiast and reference blog based out of Sanibel, FL.  I use this site for ID’ing shells.