Brigitte Dollarhide is 76 Years old (born in 1944) and is a body builder in Texas
downtown Oslo July 22, 2011
Link sent from a friend of mine in Oslo, Norway (the friend didn't take the video, only sent the link). It's now on Oslo TV
What really happened in downtown Oslo yesterday. Before, during, and after, from somebody who was there
and a scene from tonights vigil in Oslo
1964 Alaska quake footage
this video contains the famous footage of Valdez, Alaska harbor being emptied after a 9.2 earthquake in 1964. This is the same earthquake that wiped out the entire downtown of Crescent City, California the same day in 1964
Up until today, Crescent City, California had the distinction of being the only US city to be hit by a tsunami. It''s now the only US city to be hit twice by a tsunami
Crescent City, 1964
quote today from Crescent City via BBC live feed
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2108: Ted Scott, a retired mill worker who lived in Crescent City, California, when a tsunami killed 17 people on the West Coast in 1964, told the Associated Press: "This is just devastating. I never thought I'd see this again. I watched the docks bust apart. It buckled like a graham cracker."
Google, Twitter, Saynow join to provide Speak2Tweet for Egypt
This was just started yesterday after Egypt shut down the last ISP
via Computerworld
live feeds via twitter and this service and on these channels is about 100 text per 30 seconds
twitter @ #egypt
http://twitter.com/speak2tweet
Google offers voice-tweeting service for Egyptians
IDG News Service - SayNow may be better known for helping the Jonas Brothers and the NBA leave short voicemail messages for their fans, but on Monday it found another purpose: helping Egyptians communicate with the rest of the world.
Google, which purchased SayNow just last week, has hacked together a "speak-to-tweet service" for Egyptians who still have working telephones but who can't connect with Twitter because ISPs in the country were ordered to disconnect from the Internet.
The last remaining major ISP (Internet service provider), Noor Group, abruptly disconnected its service on Monday.
"[A]nyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers ... and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt," Google said in a blog posting. "No Internet connection is required."
Egypt in TurmoilThe speak-to-tweet service automatically puts the voicemail on a Web page that is then linked in a Twitter message posted to Google's Speak2tweet Twitter account.
By Monday afternoon Pacific Time, the service was posting new Twitter messages every few minutes -- many of them in Arabic -- including commentary and reports from Egypt.
It's one of several alternative techniques that have been set up to keep Egyptians connected as people take to the streets to call for democratic reforms to the unpopular government of President Hosni Mubarak.
a few screen shots @ Flickr
lunar eclipse 2010
San Francisco was cloudy, but somebody in Pacific Grove near Monterey got this shot
and this one from Lawrence, Kansas
from the NASA JPL flickr group
time magazine’s real person of the year
from Alternet, Wired, Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Post
December 15, 2010
Time Magazine readers chose Julian Assange as Person of the Year. Hands down. But Time's editors preferred to go with the safer choice: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The loser in this contest is Time Magazine. Hands down.
Zuckerberg was actually 10th on the list
