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via fmu msg board off topic
per cnn: levee breach at industrial canal in NO
correctiion: officials now calling it an "over topping" and workers are working on it in lower 9th ward - water rose 5-10 inches in 5 min. levee is broken.
-also : problem western side chintillie (sp?) west NO
donahue on oriley like white on rice
19 hours to get from houston to austin by car
my mom in dallas happens to have her sister in town, they were heading out for batteries, water and wine. hope theres someone around for jim louis's mom. tell her to call my mom if need be.
via fmu station manager ken :
From the mouth of Steinski: I dunno whether Kanye was right about George Bush and black people, but I love it that someone turned his interview into a mashup, and someone else turned the mashup into a video, all in like a week.
from todays ny post:
This plan is for the birds.
City officials and NYC Audubon want all lights decorating the outside of buildings above the 40th floor to be turned off by midnight from now until the end of October.
The initiative, called Lights Out New York, is to be announced today and is designed to help hundreds of thousands of migrating birds navigate safely through the Big Apple on their annual route south.
free flags
q: what is W's position on roe vs wade
a: he doesnt care how they get out of new orleans
as told by jimb last night
what i want to know is: can bloggers sue really dumfuck idiotwind commenters ?
from dkos
NOAA overflight pics of Katrina damage
letter to michael moore : DONT DO IT
Moore is reportedly considering making a documentary about Bush and Katrina. It would be the easiest film he's ever done.
from toms otherwise stellar katrina crono quote post
pr cnn - 1/2 of la ca in state of electrical blackout
started as rollling (brownout) outages
the fire department reports no related emergency conditions other than people stuck in elevators
etymology request: any body got anything better than this. the name of an LA coffeehouse ?
anything to do with this other fifth?
"You can't take the city out of the yat, and you can't take the yat out of the city," said Frank Searle, a longtime Baton Rouge resident, using a slang term for New Orleanians derived from the local greeting, "Where y'at?"
LinkedIn is a new affinity-based network that seems to have some popularity among people I know from work. Seems like this would work with a variety of occupational "communities".
An IPod Cellphone Said to Be Imminent
there goes the neighborhood. first starbucks on delancey, now this.
Current National Weather Service bulletins for New Orleans
cycads - note photographed by andres serrano for nyt
I've been upset walking around downtown. and finally decided to look up why. and why it has not been made into a bigger deal. primer. just incase anyone else has noticed a difference in our skyline:
July 24, 2005
A 90-Year-Old Turns a Little White on Top
BY JOHN FREEMAN GILL
It was as if the Statue of Liberty had applied liberal dabs of white eyeliner while no one was looking. Or as if the top of the Sony Building, which many have likened to a giant piece of Chippendale furniture, had suddenly gone Danish Modern.
In recent weeks, residents of TriBeCa and the City Hall area have gazed perplexedly at the landmark Woolworth Building: the 1913 tower's slanting rooftops, that distinctive swatch of green against the sky of Lower Manhattan, had inexplicably turned white. The color had drained from the great Gothic skyscraper's cheeks.
"I was out on my roof, on the deck with my son, Henry," said Matthew Baird, a TriBeCa architect. "I looked up, and I was shocked; I was disappointed."
Mr. Baird, like many New Yorkers, said he had always understood that the cladding of the Woolworth's rooftops was copper, and that they had turned green from its interaction with oxygen. Consequently, the white paint confused him.
But Roy Suskin, the vice president of development for 233 Broadway Owners L.L.C., which owns the building, said, "What everyone thought was copper hasn't been copper since before 1950."
One of the four richly ornamented towers near the building's top was formerly a coal-burning chimney, Mr. Suskin explained. As a result, "Acid rain pretty much ate through the roof pretty quickly, and since then it's been covered in a green protective coating that matches the patina of oxidized copper."
The mysterious white paint job, then, is primer. Mr. Suskin said that the roof had been repainted at least once before, in the 1970's, and that by the end of the summer, weather permitting, the roof would receive a fresh green top coat of Karnak waterproof coating, a substance approved for the work by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Mr. Suskin added, "We're doing the best we can with a 90-year-old building."
Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company------------------------------------------------------------------------
spectacular mammatus clouds over Hastings, Nebraska (via Eyebeam reBlog)
What They Did Last Fall
By PAUL KRUGMAN for nyt op-ed Published: August 19, 2005
By running for the U.S. Senate, Katherine Harris, Florida's former secretary of state, has stirred up some ugly memories. And that's a good thing, because those memories remain relevant. There was at least as much electoral malfeasance in 2004 as there was in 2000, even if it didn't change the outcome. And the next election may be worse.
In his recent book "Steal This Vote" - a very judicious work, despite its title - Andrew Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, provides the best overview I've seen of the 2000 Florida vote. And he documents the simple truth: "Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election."
Two different news media consortiums reviewed Florida's ballots; both found that a full manual recount would have given the election to Mr. Gore. This was true despite a host of efforts by state and local officials to suppress likely Gore votes, most notably Ms. Harris's "felon purge," which disenfranchised large numbers of valid voters.
But few Americans have heard these facts. Perhaps journalists have felt that it would be divisive to cast doubt on the Bush administration's legitimacy. If so, their tender concern for the nation's feelings has gone for naught: Cindy Sheehan's supporters are camped in Crawford, and America is more bitterly divided than ever.
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