February 2010
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Bachelet pide “fuerza” a los chilenos para superar el peor terremoto en medio siglo
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¿Cómo seguir la última hora del terremoto de Chile en Internet?
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Until I find a transcript of Bachelet's remarks:
Pres. Bachelet: 214 dead, 15 missing, 2 million affected #terremotochile
Bacahelet calls for calm and asks population to conserve fuel, food and energy
#Chile Bachelet gives tnx for offers of Intl aid and says Chile will ask for it when and if it needs it
(via Marc Cooper.)
"The sun sinks and the floor keeps moving."
via a press release and MSNBC — if you have Verizon, you can call Chile for free. If you want to donate to one of four charities/organizations, you can click here.
The Copper Mines are closed, but there hasn’t been much damage, and they should be opening soon. “Chile’s main port at Valparaiso is also indefinitely shut down.”
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I’ve been worried about Tufts students in Chile. Here’s what looks like to be a recently published dispatch from one of them —
Around 3 a.m., a little after our Friday night of getting to know our host family better over dinner and a Chilean concoction called “terremoto,” we woke to the sounds of rumbling walls and honking cars, their alarms set off by the motion of...
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Boston.com’s “The Big Picture” has a round-up of some photographs concerning the earthquake in Chile.
FYI:
Chilean Red Cross / Hawaiian Red Cross.
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8.8 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Chile:
New York Times / El Pais / CNN Chile / Lede Blog / Enduring America /
Americans seeking info on relatives in #Chile: 1-888-407-4747.
#Chile #Earthquake Person Finder, from the U.S. Department of State. http://ow.ly/1bYk0 #ChileQuake Also — follow Breaking News and RodrigoBNO for a wealth of other facts. Late update (2/28): citizen-shot videos compiled by Global Voices Online.
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What's the morning radar?
Remember how Gov. Quinn is posting an online appeal regarding how to solve the budget crisis? That’s now been extended to running mates.
Get ready: “41 States have a cumulative mid-2010 budget shorfall of $38 billion, or 7% of their total budgets. 2011 is set to be much worse, with $103 billion in deficits — 17% of the total budgets — across 42 states.”
The British POW who...
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For any readers I might have in the area:
Libra Aries Bookshop on Mill Road, Cambridge will be closing down on Saturday 6th March 2010. We will still be selling books by mail order, and at conferences camps & festivals. We will keep the same phone number, email & web address, and will still be able to receive snail mail at the shop address for the next few months. For more information,...
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Notes on My Work.
The Reinventionists took a while to write, and two things happened while I was writing and after I’d finished generally carving the thing out that I thought might be worth sharing —
The first is that about a year after I wrote this —
By contrast, Thom writes scenes of dialogue on his desk, and likes to claim he started The Great Table Epic* in the cafeteria, where...
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FYI:
The Dalai Lama is on twitter.
“Bets by some of the same banks that helped Greece shroud its mounting debts may...”
– God damn it. (NYT.)
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What's on our radar?
Gov. Quinn to Illinois: “Help us solve the Illinois budget crisis.”
Government-sponsored “blogger schools” in Russia.
David Byrne’s TED Talk, “Creation in Reverse.”
Music is What Numbers Feel Like.
Consumers fail at identifying green companies.
Deforestation changing bird wing shapes.
Nashville residents of all faiths pledge support for local...
More on John Babcock —
John Henry Foster Babcock was born July 23, 1900, on a farm near Kingston, Ontario. When he was 6, his father died after a tree fell on him. His family split apart, he was shuttled among relatives’ homes, and he had few opportunities for an education. He was barely in his teens, and only 5 feet 4 and 115 pounds, when the inspiration from the poem by Tennyson, of...
The Mother's Theory of Game Theory:
“Zero sum? I’m still proud of you!”
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“Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial....”
– @ConanOBrien — via twitter.
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Twitter Round-Up:
@IanOxfamHaiti: nearly half the camps where people are sheltering in #Haiti are at risk of flooding or landslide according to report http://bit.ly/dbdQm8
@UN_ClimateTalks: US Senator Kerry says compromise climate bill coming; http://bit.ly/bw7ASb
@gregmitch: Great piece on amazing experience in Des Moines - - a mass social media attack on local restaurant. http://bit.ly/d9kCnT
@LATimesPhotos:...
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Shock.
I’d love to see a film that somehow tied together Michael Clayton staring in shock at horses on a hill, Mr. Fox (nee “Fantastic”) staring at the wolf on the hill, Jimmy Stewart pointing out the people walking away shocked by Harvey and others walking away shocked from Ingrid Bergman in Europa ‘51.
“Moreover, have you been to California? It’s goddamn stunning. Have you lived in...”
– The joys of living in San Francisco (via) (via chels)
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