Tuesday, March 15, 2011

RANT - The Bad News Map

A tightly-written story about a new, interactive map giving real-time information about nasty stuff going on around the world, right now. 

So 'tight' in fact, that I'll link to it, and repeat it here.

Holy Crap - Is This Really Us?

An absolutely intense map of the world showing all the disasters going on, everywhere, right this minute - ranging from (as of 17:30 EST) Nuclear Events (Japan), Flash Flood (Brazil), Vehicle Accident (El Segundo, California), Explosion (Bostik Chemical Plant, Boston, MA), Fire (Brooklyn, NY), Volcano Eruption (Azerbaijan, Japan, Russia, Indonesia, Hawaii), Airplane Incident (an insane number, all over the US; fortunately, in almost none of them were there any persons "affected"), Epidemic (New River Valley, Roanoke, VA), Biological Hazard (Bangladesh), and on and on and on and on. With level of severity.

Just the list of earthquakes that have happened...today!...is staggering (though all of them of relatively low numbers): Wyoming, Turkey, Greece, Iran, Taiwan, Poland, New Zealand, Kazakhstan...

A fascinating, terrifying, fascinating website out of Hungary. Thank you. Damn you. Thank you.

Like it or not, we're all in this together.

(Oh, yeah - the news scrawl reports "Ice sheets melting faster than earlier estimates." Anyone have a blanket to hide under?)

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