I can barely process the Haiti scope. PMM linked to this list of news and donation resources on LJ.
I didn't even know about Limnic Eruptions
I just read about one of those yesterday and I don't remember where--where did you see it?
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jan 13, 2010 8:36:58 am PST #1263 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Jan 13, 2010 8:37:41 am PST #1264 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't remember where--where did you see it?
Wikipedia.
megan walker - Jan 13, 2010 8:40:04 am PST #1265 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
this list of news and donation resources on LJ
Note: MSF/DWB does have a Haiti-specific donation page.
P.M. Marc - Jan 13, 2010 8:41:27 am PST #1266 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I can barely process the Haiti scope
Me neither.
P.M. Marc - Jan 13, 2010 8:42:03 am PST #1267 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Note: MSF/DWB does have a Haiti-specific donation page.
IIRC, it's linked in the comments -- it mightn't have been up when the original post was made.
Steph L. - Jan 13, 2010 8:53:18 am PST #1268 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I can barely process the Haiti scope
Me neither.
One of the pictures in the NYT slideshow is a view from above a neighborhood, and all the houses -- 40 or so -- are just timbers on the ground. I can't even get my mind around that, much less how big the whole thing is.
Tom Scola - Jan 13, 2010 9:00:47 am PST #1269 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
One of the pictures in the NYT slideshow is a view from above a neighborhood, and all the houses -- 40 or so -- are just timbers on the ground. I can't even get my mind around that, much less how big the whole thing is.
Photo #38 from the boston.com link I posted above. Seeing how tiny the people are in that picture is disconcerting.
Steph L. - Jan 13, 2010 9:03:58 am PST #1270 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Photo #38 from the boston.com link I posted above.
That's the one. It's shown much smaller on the NYT site, and I didn't even realize there were people in the photo.
(I'm not clicking too many links, because I just can't handle it.)
Ginger - Jan 13, 2010 9:05:21 am PST #1271 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I didn't even know about Limnic Eruptions (sudden eruptions of CO2 from lakes that asphyxiate everything nearby).
You clearly have not been reading enough weird science.
Poor Haiti sometimes seems like a great cosmic experiment in misery.
tommyrot - Jan 13, 2010 9:14:53 am PST #1272 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.