At a press conference for information about the fires blazing across Southern California, "the questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters," rather than reporters themselves.

This amazing photo was taken by Margaret Bourke-White during the Great Depression

Oh dear, a team of law-enforcement personnel rescued frozen embryos during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while thaw adults suffered and died.

Chip Rosenthal shares his experience with AMD's "Personal Internet Communicator" net appliance serving Katrina refugees. He blames the Windows CE-based OS and the lack of hackability of the device.

A New Orleans journalist relates the psychic toll of Katrina.

BBC documentary about inmates at Orleans Parish Prison kept in lockup as the city flooded. It's interesting how the sheriff was politicking all through Katrina and its aftermath.

The creator of the comic "Get Your War On" remembers Hurricane Katrina with a creative interactive piece.

Archive.org has cached millions of websites related to the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. They're the folks responsible for the Wayback Machine, so they would probably be caching this information anyway, but it's nice they have the Katrina gateway.

Strong Angel is a project developing IT strategies for communicating during disasters. In this post, Dan Gillmor discusses the role of citizen reporters in this project.

"The Emergency Blogcasting System is an association of Austin-area weblog authors who will respond to a regional disaster with communication and citizen reporting enabled through blogging." hmmm, I presume these are disasters that leave the local internet

During Hurricane Katrina, correctional workers abandoned inmates at Orleans Parish Prison, leaving them in waist-high water with no way to evacuate.

"The sculpture - called Dreamspace - is thought to have drifted for up to 40 metres before catching on a CCTV camera post and coming down near a children's playground." I say we blame the surveillance cameras rather than the inflatable sculpture.

A meteorite strikes Norway with force comparable to the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima, and I learn of it through blogs, rather than TV news? Damn corporate media.. I guess they were too busy reporting on Natalee Holloway.

Via Chutry, a Union of Concerned Scientists Flash animation that explains why using a tactical nuclear weapons is a bad idea.

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