Blogs are global and blogs are forever; it’s hardwired into their nature as nodes on the Internet. So I find myself wondering lately what people’s blogs reveal about their lives, and whether this is information that truly should be public, persistent and searchable by anyone, in any future time.
A quick scan suggests that a […]
This is pretty f*cked-up. So it surprises me that there weren’t any Americans mentioned, such tourists generally being pretty arrogant in foreign countries.
Insensitivity to the worst disaster in history takes on a new meaning as European visitors to Phuket complain about their surroundings……excerpt from: http://www.dcthornton.com/index.php?p=1884
Chaminda writes with this announcement of a local candlelight vigil and memorial service, organized by Vancouver’s Sri Lankan community:
Date: Sunday 2nd January 2005Time: 3:30PMPlace: Vancouver Art Gallery, West Georgia Street, Vancouver.
The Sri Lankan community in the Greater Vancouver area is getting together at this time of national tragedy. Religious leaders from the Buddhist, Hindu, Christian […]
Keith Pleas Blog - Friday, December 31, 2004 Entries
Susi’s NGO (non-gorvenmental organization) on Bali - IDEP - was resonsible for much of the recovery work from the Bali bombing and the irony is that much of the organization around that disaster is being put to use immediately to bring relief to the Aceh victims. Lee […]
Surfacing from the deluge of news reports about the devastation of coastal Thailand fishing towns, political sniping at the amount of aid pledged by the United States, and frustrated Western seismologists staring at flashing instruments without the phone numbers of anybody in Sumatra, one realizes that only certain details of the tragedy seem to linger […]
Read. This. Page. It will upset you, disgust you, hopefully piss you off, but it will also tell at least part of the real story of what’s going on five days after the tsunami.
Excerpt from:
India Uncut
It’s five kilometres of hell, and it’s right here at Nagapattinum.
Kaviarsi studies — make that studied — […]
My girlfriend, who doesn’t read this blog nearly as often as she should, is Canadian so I post this here mostly for her benefit. :)
The Canadian government, until January 11th, will match any donation to major relief operations working from Canada.
In other words, you double the size of your donation if you send money […]
This is an excerpt. If you have kids, especially younger than 2 yrs, pay attention to the link in the last paragraph here. Then go to the site and read the rest of the post.
When I want to creep myself out, I walk around the neighborhood at 9 PM and count the number […]
Mark Frauenfelder:
IT Conversations has an 18 minute audio interview with William Gibson, from Moira Gunn’s Tech Nation program.
Link…excerpt from: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/31/william_gibson_inter.html
Xeni Jardin:
Comprehensive collection of materials related to the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, including animations, charts, links, and seismograph recordings, and helful explanations on how to read them. Link (thanks, Ben)…excerpt from: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/31/scientific_data_on_e.html
Xeni Jardin:
Choire Sicha deconstructs wildly contradictory headlines related to the Asian disaster. “I’m all for opinionated reporting and interpretation, but this I find this actually quite disturbing and very sad, particularly when one gets a whiff of agenda in the headlines.” Link…excerpt from: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/31/tsunami_media_bubble.html
Xeni Jardin:
BoingBoing pal Mike Outmesguine gives us an update on the blog-driven project to provide free wireless communication services to areas cut off by the disaster:
Here’s a rough update. Smartbridges located in Singapore has pledged 5 access points to begin with and more as specific needs arise. They can be used to connect remote locales […]
Yahoo! News - Asian Tsunami Disaster
Photo of a full warehouse
Aid Arrives in Asia; Deaths Pass 121,000
AP - 48 minutes ago
The United States upped its tsunami relief aid tenfold Friday as the world’s ships and planes converged on devastated shores. Bottlenecks of supplies built up, fears of epidemics grew, and in an echo of 9/11’s […]
Indonesia Needs Help, Death Toll Expected To Exceed 400,000 :: Bernama.com
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 (Bernama) — The death toll in Acheh, the region worst hit by last Sunday’s tsunami, may exceed 400,000 as many affected areas could still not be reached for search and rescue operations, Indonesia’s Ambassador to Malaysia Drs H. Rusdihardjo said Thursday.
He […]