Month: January 2005
Best place to find photos, videos, satellite images of the tsunami and its aftermath
Is here. The guy (girl?) who’s running the site seems to be bent on collecting every image…
Chocolate Explained
Chocolate is made from the cocao bean. It’s dried, roasted, and ground, and during the grinding process,…
Another cool photos site
There are twenty pictures you can scroll through – before and afters.
Tsunami experiments
I found two interesting tsunami experiments pages. The first one looks like it was done in some…
Environmental impact of the tsunami
Taken from Wikipedia: —–Begin Quote It has been reported that severe damage has been inflicted on ecosystems…
Famous Tsunamis
Taken from here: —–Begin Quote December 26, 2004: A massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra generates…
How a tsunami works
Check out this link. It has links to more tsunami footage, animations of the Bandeh Aceh shoreline…
Marriage Proposals in Sri Lanka
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." –…
American Military Intelligence – once again, proved an Oxymoron
What were they thinking? —–Begin Quote The damage wrought by the construction of an American military base…
Lankaweb headlines
Taken from this website. The reason I doubt the previous article – take a look at these…
“SUN GOD” IS DEAD AND GONE. LET US UNITE AS ONE NATION TO REBUILD OUR COUNTRY.
That how one headline read. It certainly does get your attention, doesn’t it? They’re talking about Prabhakaran,…
9 desperate woman fighting for tsunami-survivor ‘Baby 81’
Because that’s the only way to replace their own dead children. [/sarcasm] People are nuts. To be…
Prabhakaran dead! Body found!
More info here. And the rest of you are going, "Uh, yeah, so why do we care?"…
The History of Chocolate Chip Cookies
Do you wonder where chocolate chip cookies came from? Someone had to be the first person to…
Pictures of the tsunami – before and after
There are now a lot of websites out there that have before and after pics. You can…
Charity Navigator
I found this. They have a list of over 3,500 charities with ratings in their database, plus…
Fahim and I bought a home theatre system
It’s a gift from my grandmother (thanks, gram!). It all started yesterday when we received an envelope…
Attacking poverty in Sri Lanka and other poor countries
Another way to attack poverty here is for longer term residents to hire locals – as maids,…
After the tsunami: To go or not to go, that is the question.
Go. Or, rather, come. Please. By vacationing in areas that were affected by the tsunami, you can…
Another letter from my sister in the Maldives
My aunt Anne has asked how the Maldives are currently faring. Well, the most interesting and traumatic…
Ants REALLY REALLY squick me out
Long brown bugs, roughly the same size, shape, and color of our red rice, invaded the rice…
Blessed coolness!
We’ve had a couple of torrential downpours the last 24 hours which, thank heavens, has cooled things…
On chain letters and anti-Islamic sentiment
Some people evidently believe everything they read. I know this because I received the following in my…
Tsunami Snapshot
Country Conf. Dead Est. Dead Missing Injured Displaced Indonesia 113,306 unknown unknown 100,000+ ~517,000 Sri Lanka 30,860…
Arthur C. Clarke writes a news release: Rebuilding after Tsunami
Read it here. Excerpts follow: —– I added: I have always been an optimist, and I still…