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| Monday, August 29, 2005 |
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For which my warm ass is grateful 
Holy Sphlit
Well, I'd be dead by now, for one
| | But could you imagine Doc, Scoble or Joi pulling out the mirror & credit card at a blog dinner? Or Loic and Caterina getting really paranoid when the white powder starts running out? |
| | That aside, Hugh is rocking lately. Not that he's ever let up. The friend I was showing blogging ropes to last night at one point said, "You have to check out this blog, gapingvoid..." |
| | But the fact is, for pennies (and I do mean PENNIES) on the dollar compared to standard advertising campaigns, we're getting astrophysicists talking openly and intellegently about a bottle of $10 plonk. |
Katrina, cont'd
| | Sounds like things are bad but could have been a lot worse for New Orleans, even though CNN says nothing works there: no sewage, power, water, etc. |
| | Then there are stories like this one. And they're coming so fast that every Technorati search for Katrina brings in a new pile of posts. No way to keep up. Meanwhile (thanks Wendy Cooper), here's Brendan Loy, with lots of links and near-live reporting. New Orleans was spared "The Big One" today -- this was a big one, but not the Big One -- but someday, the worst will happen. It is inevitable; it's a matter of when, not if. (Same goes for earthquakes and fires here in Southern California. |
| | It will be a while before we know the full extent of the storm surge on the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama as well as Louisiana. I remember driving down that coast five years after Hurricane Camille and the area was still a mess. (Here's another page.) |
| | Wikipedia's Katrina page. As a result of the storm, West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures reached a record high of over $70. And Some experts predict a million people could become homeless as a result of the storm [1]. Preliminary insurance estimates from State Farm and other insurance companies indicate insured damage from 10 to 25 billion. |
Open cast
| | Eugene Volokh will be a guest on Chris Lydon's Open Source program this evening. Speech in War is the topic. Oh, it's on right now (4:45pm PDT). I can't get anything to stream from WGBH or KUOW (which used to broadcast in MP3, but now uses Windows Media, which sucks). Of course, it's also podcast, so you can catch it any time you like. |
| | Hey, one of the guests is Harvey Silverglate, who was a legendary student in the Maywood (NJ) school system where I grew up. One of my best friends back then was Harvey's younger brother Sam. I never knew Harvey (though I met him once at Sam's house, I think), and I haven't seen Sammy since we ran into each other at our draft physicals, in 1969. |
Of course they'll never do it, but still
| | Hey, how about putting bootable Linux on the iPods instead? A great, and already proven, way to re-animate dead PCs. Could create a lot of interesting symbiotes out in the marketplace. |
Newest Orleans
| | Some blogs on the matter are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. |
| | A third of the nations oil comes from Louisiana, New Orleans' mayor just said. Hugh Hewitt points to this. |
| | The latest (2am Central time) from the NOAA (pulled off the feed in the first paragraph above): |
| | KATRINA REMAINS A VERY LARGE HURRICANE. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 105 MILES FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 230 MILES... |
| | COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 18 TO 22 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS...LOCALLY AS HIGH AS 28 FEET...ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES...CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE CENTER MAKES LANDFALL. SOME LEVEES IN THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA COULD BE OVERTOPPED. SIGNIFICANT STORM SURGE FLOODING WILL OCCUR ELSEWHERE ALONG THE CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO COAST. |
| | NOAA BUOY 42040 LOCATED ABOUT 50 MILES EAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER RECENTLY REPORTED WAVES HEIGHTS OF AT LEAST 40 FEET. |
Journalities
The splog Turing test
| | I think so, though. This post, for example, looks like it was assembled by some kind of script. |
| | I guess we'll know it's successful if it starts to gather AdSense ads. |
Blogging 101
| | Improv is one of my friend's particular interests (she just said, What's more honest... improv or the written word?), so here are a couple of links to the improv tag, first on Technorati and second on Flickr. |
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