8 days ago
Linkorama : Top 10 Articles About the Financial Crisis - Of the many articles I’ve read about the financial crisis, the following ten have been the most informative. Read them all, and I think you will have a very solid understanding of what is going on.
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1 month ago
Linkorama : NPR's Andy Carvin on the Role of Social Media in Gustav Coverage
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gleuschk : A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog - jeezum crow
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7 month ago
philgyford : Against go bag silliness « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird - I've seen a few links fly by about making up emergency "go bags". Adam Greenfield offers some less excitable advice from experience. (via ChrisDodo)
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8 month ago
gleuschk : A Primeval Tide of Toxins - Los Angeles Times - the rise of slime
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9 month ago
Linkorama : The major incidents on the internet in 2007 - Should have included the Estonia Cyberwar
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13 month ago
Linkorama : Disaster tips - YouTube - Disaster tips you won't hear from officials: wikis
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15 month ago
joshua : huge archive of container shipping wrecks
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15 month ago
deusx : Earthquake Sets Japan Back To 2147 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "Japan finds itself in crisis, with our society and culture temporarily reverting to a pre-cyberunification era"
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Strong earthquake near Solomon Islands, tsunami reported - According the the US Geological Survey, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 20:39:56 (UTC) about 45 km (25 mi) south-southeast of Gizo, New Georgia Islands, Solomon Islands, at a depth of 10 km.
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19 month ago
cameron : Giant Guatemalan sinkhole eats houses - This is VERY hoaxworthy stuff, but apparently it's true. Amazing photographs.
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25 month ago
Linkorama : 9/11: Birth of the Blog - When the world changed on Sept. 11, 2001, the web changed with it.
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26 month ago
deusx : Gov't fulfills few Katrina promises - Yahoo! News - "A year after the storm, the federal government has proven slow and unreliable in keeping the president's promises."
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31 month ago
joshua : Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom
gleuschk : Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom. - oops
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Nobody here but us chickens - A little compare and contrast about the NYC transit strike gets us quickly to the heart of a serious problem that faces newspaper.coms.
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34 month ago
Linkorama : It's Good To Have Friends - Civil is being connected to civil society
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34 month ago
Linkorama : And we're back... - Anil talks about getting 6A up to business class
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Bad Typepad, No Doughnut - AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Why Aren't We Ashamed? - We are failing to be heros when it matters most
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36 month ago
deusx : CBS News | FEMA Extends Ex-Chief's Contract | October 26, 2005Â 20:30:06 - Doesn't resignation mean... er... "I quit" and then you find a new job? "The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday defended the agency's decision to keep him on the job another 30 days as a "completely legitimate thing to d
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37 month ago
deusx : Just a Bump in the Beltway: Saving NOLA - "Failure to plan, and train properly has plagued US efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and now that failure has come home to roost in the United States."
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37 month ago
Andy Baio : Armed dolphins released into Gulk of Mexico? - oddball Katrina story reported by the Guardian UK [via]
Linkorama : Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina
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37 month ago
kellan : GW Bush's hurricane response compared with previous presidents. - Compared Nixon, Bush Sr., and Clinton #
deusx : LawGeek: Bush's Response to Katrina sub-par compared to other preisdents - "Bush was on vacation, riding his bike for two hours the day before the hurricane lands. "
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37 month ago
deusx : Bush to Focus on Vision for Reconstruction in Speech - New York Times - What. The. Fuck?! "Republicans said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush's chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort, which reaches across many agencies of government and includes the direct involvemen
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37 month ago
deusx : Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 11, 2005 - September 17, 2005 Archives - "President Bush has now put us on notice, the Gulf Coast reconstruction effort is going to be run as a patronage and political operation."
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