The before picture for comparison. It's striking how beautiful, yet how deadly, natural disasters can be. Think of the sunsets caused by volcanic eruptions, or the ice formations caused by an ice storm. The pictures are from DigitalGlobe 's QuickBird images of tsunami sites
I'll keep track and see if these numbers change as more detailed needs assessments are done.
Update: Wikipedia has a page that does a better job than I could.
Godel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter. Without a doubt. Even reading one fifth of the book is better than most others in their entirety. Little known fact: Hofstadter was the first author purchased at Amazon.com.
The categories are...
General: Canadian, World, Business, Health and Science, Arts
Sports: General News, Amateur Sports, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey
Regional: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Montreal, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, North (only Canada has an area they just call "North"), Nova Scotia, Ottawa, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Toronto (they don't have Ontario?)
The very best way to get traffic to your blog is to have a big corporation make you remove something from it. Sony now finds itself being nibbled by thousands and thousands of ducks.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)