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From the daily archives:
Cory Doctorow:
Lemmings are widely considered to be suicidal beasts, throwing themselves en masse off cliffs. It turns out that this isn’t true, but rather a legend begun through some unethical trick photography executed by Disney nature photos in the fifties.
The myth of mass lemming suicide began when the Walt Disney movie, Wild Wilderness was released [...]
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Xeni Jardin:
Image: Screencap of TV coverage in Bangkok, Buddhist monks chanting for the souls of those who died in the disaster. At present, the international death toll stands at nearly 24,000. Ron Morris in Thailand says, “Since the first tremor from the Sumatran quake was felt in Bangkok over 36 hours ago, we [...]
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Xeni Jardin:
Rohit Gupta writes:
The picture here is taken from the southernmost tip of India, where until today there were hundreds of tourists trapped at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, off the coast of Kanyakumari district. In an amazing display of humanitarian collaboration and bravery, the local fishermen saved roughly 500 of the 600 trapped people, while [...]
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Xeni Jardin:
On his website, author and inventor Sir Arthur C. Clarke — who lives in Sri Lanka — says:
Thank you for your concern about my safety in the wake of Sunday�s devastating tidal wave. I am enormously relieved that my family and household have escaped the ravages of the sea that suddenly invaded most parts [...]
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The Moderate Voice: MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE In Asia: Some Asian Blogs’ Accounts
2004 decided not to go quietly today when the biggest earthquake in 40 years struck deep in the Indian Ocean, triggering massive tsunamis — wiping out Asian coastal areas and instantly drowning and killing more than 27,000 people.
In a grim reminder that the well-laid plans [...]
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Yahoo! News – Science Photos – AFP
Graphic explaining the Richter Scale measuring the force of earthquakes.(AFP)
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BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis
The tsunami
: The Independent has a helpful if horrifying country-by-country report on the impact of the earthquake and destruction. Here’s a map from The Age in Australia.
: The Age asks readers to send in their stories and this comes from an Australian near Phuket:
We came to Koh Tao [...]
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Yahoo! News – Tsunami Waves Kill Over 19,930 in Asia
10 minutes ago
World – AP Asia
By DILIP GANGULY, Associated Press Writer
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Rescuers scoured Asia’s coastlines for survivors of devastating tidal waves that obliterated seaside towns in nine countries, killing more than 19,930 people. Aid poured into the region, but morgues and hospitals struggled [...]
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Current event This article or section is about a current event. Information may change rapidly.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea earthquake of moment magnitude 9.0 that struck the Indian Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26, [...]
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Plastic::SciTech::Disaster: More than 10,000 are dead due to tsunamis caused by an undersea quake off Sumatra.…excerpt from: http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=04/12/27/03144836
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TSUNAMI UPDATE: Jeff Jarvis has more links and reports, some rather harrowing, and points to this country by country roundup from The Independent. And scroll down, or click here for links to posts from bloggers in the region
Joe Gandelman has another roundup of asian bloggers’ resports.
Tim Blair has more, too, and so does [...]
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