Our guest on the show today is Jason Scott, computer historian and adjunct archivist at the Internet Archives, a nonprofit founded in 1996 to save a copy of every Web page ever posted. He’s also responsible for the Netscape GIF graveyard you see above. Also related: ‘under construction’ GIFs! Read this blog post by Justin Yu on The 404 Podcast.
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The 404 889: Where we feel an urge to back you up (podcast) | The 404 Podcast - CNET Blogs
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Junot Diaz On What Disasters Reveal
The Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz got everybody’s attention, and a Pulitzer Prize, with his fierce, funny, tragic first novel “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Now, in a big new essay, Diaz has moved on to bigger themes — like apocalypse and the fate of the human race.
Junot Diaz looks at our recent headlines of earthquakes, tsunamis, meltdown fears, and floods and sees revelation. Not of the hand of God, exactly. But of human realities running amok.
We avert our eyes, he says. But these disasters must be read.
This hour, On Point: Junot Diaz, on revelation and apocalypse.
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post-quake Japan report | MeFi Music
http://music.metafilter.com/5517/postquake-Japan-report flapjax - Recorded this too late for inclusion on the current Japan-related podcast, so I’m posting it here.
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Science Friday: A Quake that Shook the World?
"Last week’s powerful earthquake in Chile may have shifted the Earth’s axis and changed the length of a day, according to NASA researchers. The magnitude 8.8 quake of February 27 was powerful enough to alter the position of the planet’s figure axis, an imaginary line around which the mass of the planet rotates, by about 3 inches. That adds up to an Earth day that lasts about 1.26 microseconds less than it did before the earthquake. We’ll talk about how geological processes can effect the planet’s rotation, and how researchers model planetary movements."
Incidentally, this also mentions Charles Darwin & the Beagle’s assistance and observations of a Chilean earthquake in the same spot as the recent one. It mentions how that quake shaped Darwin’s geologic interests that helped shape his theory of evolution. Great stuff. Also mentions FitzRoy, the captain of the Beagle. The same story is fictionalized (but still historical in inspiration) in "This Thing of Darkness" which I highly, highly recommend.
From http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201003051
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AUDIO: Situation Update 2 from DR - Haiti Border
Louis called in with another update. It cuts off a bit at the end, but gives a useful overview. Download the link, edit and use as widely. Louis Belanger is the Humanitarian Media Officer for Oxfam and has been assessing the situation from Santo Domingo, DR today. He is currently driving to the border and will cross into Haiti early tomorrow.