January 2010

How to Survive a 35,000-Foot Fall – Plane Crash Survival Guide – Popular Mechanics

30 January 2010

How to Survive a 35,000-Foot Fall – Plane Crash Survival Guide – Popular Mechanics: “You’re six miles up, alone and falling without a parachute. Though the odds are long, a small number of people have found themselves in similar situations—and lived to tell the tale. Here’s PM’s 120-mph, 35,000-ft, 3-minutes-to-impact survival guide.”

Chances are against you [...]

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The iPad Will Change Something

28 January 2010

There are a lot of nerds complaining about what the iPad can’t do, and while those things are true they also don’t seem to have anything to do with reality.
It doesn’t have a camera: Fine by me. I’ve got a camera on my phone on my laptop and guess what my camera is a camera [...]

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Which way the wind blows

27 January 2010

231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world’s fastest – Yahoo! News: “The concession came three days after the World Meteorological Organization posted a snippet on its Web site saying a panel of experts reviewing extreme weather and climate data turned up a 253 mph gust on Australia’s Barrow Island during Cyclone Olivia in 1996.”

Do [...]

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Yeah Right: Harrison Bergeron

27 January 2010

It’s interesting how many 40 year old stories are coming to life right now.It’s a scary story, the trailer looks cool.

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Haiti Air Traffic Control.

26 January 2010

Usually if you ever think of air traffic control you think of something like this.

Computers, big displays, lots of radios and electronics.

This is what they are using in Haiti.

Just a little different.ht strategypage

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Dave’s Garden

26 January 2010

While I am pretty sure that there won’t a Holodomor here in the US, I am pretty sure there will be a spike in food prices later this year. So having a garden would be a good idea and not just for this year either.
Producing food in your own garden is a major skill to have. [...]

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Reports from Haiti

25 January 2010

Team Rubicon blogReport from USNS Comfort

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Disaster Porn – Frankenstorm

25 January 2010

My Way News – Scientists create model of monster ‘Frankenstorm’: “As torrential rains pelted wildfire-stripped hillsides and flooded highways, a team of scientists hunkered down at the California Institute of Technology to work on a ‘Frankenstorm’ scenario – a mother lode wintry blast that could potentially sock the Golden State.”

I can see the TV-movie now. [...]

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ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: ARRL Sends Ham Aid Equipment to Haiti

23 January 2010

ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: ARRL Sends Ham Aid Equipment to Haiti: “Even though the communications infrastructure in earthquake-ravaged Haiti is being rebuilt, there is still need for Amateur Radio communications. To assist in this effort, the ARRL’s Ham-Aid program is providing equipment for local amateurs to use.”

I’ve added a link to ARRL’s Ham Aid program.
Amateur [...]

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Don’t choose a charity for Haiti based on administration costs

22 January 2010

Don’t choose a charity for Haiti based on administration costs: “While it seems logical that the less a charity spends on administration the more of your donation reaches the people that need it the most, it’s not as simple as that. In reality the amount that a charity spends on administration costs is a meaningless [...]

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