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Mt. Redoubt in March 2009, prior to erupting At ~10:30 PM (Alaskan Time) last night, Mt. Redoubt erupted. AVO and the Anchorage VAAC issued a Red Alert for ash as high as 50,000 feet (15,000 meters) around the volcano. Information is scarce about the exact nature of the ash cloud because of the ...
Some maps capture the imagination and inspire so much imitation that they become icons. Harry Beck’s 1930s map of the London Underground is one of the best examples (here is the current tube map, on the Transport for London website, and here is the original map. Here and here are maps inspired by ...
There are more arrests in Yemen. First, another one in Taizz, of someone that 26th of September is identifying as Abu Hadhifah, which tells us exactly nothing. Mareb Press has more details about the Kuwait, Yussif Said al-Dharbash, who was arrested in January. Kuwait has cleared him of charges ...
The Yemeni government is attempting to take the fight to al-Qaeda, using helicopters to comb the governorates of Marib, Shabwa, Hadramawt, and probably al-Jawf. (All of this makes me wonder my al-Masri is so bad at public relations as the head of the Ministry of the Interior - stay tuned for a ...
Welcome, new visitors and regular readers, to the 113th edition of the Carnival of the Godless here at Daylight Atheism! I last hosted this gathering of the godless all the way back in July 2006, for its 44th edition, and nearly three years later, we're still going strong. In fact, the carnival has ...
For decades, the American government has battled gang violence. Now, with an intensifying drug war along the Mexican-U.S. border, academics and think tanks are studying these deeply-rooted criminal entities and reshaping policy in the process. A landmark street gang study arrived in 2000 from ...
Seismicity has increased dramatically at Redoubt in Alaska over the last 24 hours, so AVO has put the volcano back on Orange/ Watch status. They say the tremors being felt now could be signs to an impending eruption (days to weeks), especially after the other events of the past week. Stay tuned ...
Facebook Pages is the future. Seriously, it’s amazing. Scoble wrote a sweet article defending the recent facebook redesign which I don’t want to rewrite — so go read it. Here’s what I do want to talk about: All of the people who have become fans of your pages before yesterday will not see your ...
Well this is probably more of an insight into my social life than most would like, but the new issue of Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Battles not the Glorious Epics or whatever other translations I've seen) is out (almost right on schedule - I told one friend this past week it should be out on Sunday ...
My recent post encouraging readers to join the atheists' group on Kiva stirred some controversy in a comment thread on Reddit. One commenter, whose sentiments were echoed by several others, writes: You should give because you believe in something - not just to prove a point and rig this like ...
How innovative is your city? McKinsey Digital has released a new innovation study of the world's leading cities, grouping them into one of four different categories -- "hot springs," "dynamic oceans," "silent lakes," and "shrinking pools." The most innovative cities are "dynamic oceans," while ...
In today's issue of today's papers Greg asks why the government isn't linking the bombings to al-Wahayshi or al-Raymi. My feeling is that the bombing, while troubling and scary, is also very embarrassing to Salih. San'a is double-plus unhappy about the Obama plan to transfer Yemeni detainees ...
In an attempt to mend tenions between city and suburb, the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, unveiled his massive urban planning effort last week. Will "Grand Paris" serve as a blueprint for cities of the future? For many Parisians, the les banlieues evoke a grimace or at best a shrug of ...
As promised, I have included Abdulahi's blog on Waq al-waq's blogs we read. Sorry for the delay, but I spent a good part of yesterday avoiding work and watching my NCAA bracket collapse into kindling. One more poor performance today and it could spell the end of my dreams for riches and glory.
So, as I am apt to do from time to time, I was wandering the interweb and stumbled across the FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) for Kids website. Naturally, I thought, what do they have to say about, oh, I don't know, volcanoes. Well, was I in for a doozy! FEMA, in its infinite ...