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27 Sep 2009 03:43

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World: The Philippines slammed by its worst flooding in 40 years

  • 51 have died and another 21 have gone missing in the flooding
  • 80%+ of the Phillippine capital, Manila, is currently under water source
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11 Jun 2009 10:33

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Tech: We’re all gonna die! Earth could hit another planet someday

  • The BBC sez that Earth’s orbit could be in danger of running into Mars’ or even Venus’ orbit in a few million years, creating a killer explosion, we’re sure, but also the death of lots and lots of cyborgs. source
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27 May 2009 22:27

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World: Asia’s suffering from another cruddy season of cyclones

These villagers are waiting for aid after Cyclone Alia came by, killed 191 and left thousands homeless. That’s not nice, Alia! source
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27 May 2009 11:13

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World: A bomb blast in Pakistan takes a huge death toll

  • 23+ died and 300 were injured in the suicide bombing source
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28 Apr 2009 10:11

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World: Pope Benedict tours the Italian earthquake destruction

The pope says the Lord “is not deaf to the worried cry of so many families who lost everything.” source
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07 Apr 2009 20:44

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World: In the Italian earthquake debris, a promising sign

  • 98 age of the quake victim who was pulled out, alive source
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06 Apr 2009 09:52

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World: Scenes from the Italy earthquake: Numbers don’t say enough

The death toll and destruction in Italy needs to be seen in picture form. The NYT has some very powerful ones. source
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06 Apr 2009 08:54

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World: Historic buildings took the brunt of the Italy quake

  • Most of the buildings in the city center are more than a 100 years old, and so they have walls that are a lot weaker than other palazzi that are made of reinforced concrete. So there were a lot more damages actually inside the city.
  • Joshua Brothers • An American missionary in L’Aquila, Italy, near the epicenter of the deadly earthquake. Another resident, Maria Francesco, said it “was the apocalypse, our house collapsed. It’s destroyed, and there’s nothing left to recover.” • source
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18 Mar 2009 23:13

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Politics: We’re late to the Clay Shirky newspapers bandwagon, but he’s right

  • He’s right, you know Shirky makes this argument that all the stuff that the newspaper industry is doing right now is essentially trying to prop up an unsustainable model ruined by the Internet. Well, yeah. It’s the nature of creative destruction, something I wrote about a couple of months ago. But despite this, the content itself is more popular than ever. We read it because we love it. Even when we bitch and moan about the bias, we secretly love it.
  • Nothing will work Shirky’s main point: Experiment like crazy. Fail. Lose your shirt. Because you might eventually come up with a new type of thread which is a lot better than the one that held together your crappy shirt. I’d like to think that I got his point without having to be told it bluntly. I think a lot of people I know didn’t really get his point until it hit them in the face so hard that they couldn’t stop staring and they felt stung. It’s creative destruction. Don’t fight it.
  • Everything might work My friends are getting laid off, event the ones outside the newspaper industry. Newspapers are getting closed. The media feels like a watchdog that’s running out of sweet, sweet kibble. And it’s not because kibble’s in short supply – it’s because it’s getting dumped into a different bowl and it has a slightly different taste. It’s not going back into the old bowl. And you’re going to starve to death eating stale kibble. source
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15 Mar 2009 11:25

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World: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers conflict takes a huge toll

  • 36,000 civilians have been displaced during the conflict’s recent flare-up, the Red Cross says
  • 2,800 civilians may have been killed in the fighting between Sri Lanka and the separatist group source
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