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Hurricane Katrina news from family on the front lines

My cousin, Craig Corey, is a doctor with a North Carolina Support Team (FEMA) in Gulfport, Mississippi. The following news came in today from his wife, Carol:
I spoke briefly with Craig last night. They are based at Gulfport Memorial Hospital. They set up the MASH tents adjoining the main hospital. His team [...]

Giant squid

It’s official: giant squid are taking over the world. Scientists have determined that squid have overtaken humans in terms of total bio-mass, and it’s partially man’s disregard for nature and the environement that is helping the squid to take over. It would seem that squid flourish in the over-fished ocean waters because there is less [...]

Windows critical reboot

Slashdot reports:
The recent shutdown of LAX due to an FAA radio outage was apparently caused by a Windows 2000 integration flaw, possibility related to an old Windows 95 bug. An article at the LA Times claims that the outage was caused by human error, as the system will automatically shut down after 49.7 days (related [...]

Taking photos of public places

This is getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere. Seems a local Seattle man, who is an amateur photographer and blogger, gained the attention of the venerable Department of Homeland Security for openly, and with permission, photographing public spaces around the Ballard Locks.
His story is compelling, heartbreaking, and scary. Let’s hope it’s for [...]

Tour de France news feeds

If you’re not a cable T.V. subscriber (like me) and/or don’t have hours of free time to watch the Tour de France coverage on OLN (like me), then what’s a good way of following the action? I spend a large chunk of my day online, and since I’ve come to rely on RSS and [...]

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