[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] On The Guardian’s homepage, you can hide their entire Royal Wedding section by clicking on “Republicans click here.” When you do this, the text changes to “Royalists click here,” which, of course, re-opens the Royal Wedding section. Ha! Also, they have a special blog post called Not the royal wedding… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Alabama Weather Blog at http://www.alabamawx.com/ is a great resource for coverage of Wednesday’s disaster.
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The Atlantic has a great collection of photos from the the tornadoes and other severe weather around the country.
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] It’s been fun New Orleans. Reggie Bush, tweeting about the Saints’ selection of fellow Heisman-winning running back Mark Ingram in the NFL Draft. (He later congratulated Ingram.)
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour has been postponed due to a technical problem. Bummer. President Obama and Gabby Giffords, whose husband is commanding the mission, were to watch the launch live.
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] “Darvaz: The Door to Hell.” A natural gas fire that’s been burning since 1971. Fascinating.
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Some of the Alabama tornadoes left brown gashes on the otherwise green earth that are visible from space.
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] We may have the dot.com bubble of 1995 to 2000 [to thank] for making [the rise of social media] possible. The Internet could not become an effective large scale global communication system for personal and business use without exponential increases in speed and bandwidth capacity from the dial-up era. Accomplishing… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] CNN’s top stories this morning. Sigh.
Very lucky, as this excellent graphic from the front page of the Tuscaloosa News shows. Note the green area labeled “UA” — that’s the campus, and it just avoided a direct hit from the massive tornado that devastated Tuscaloosa: As things stand, life at the university has been tremendously disrupted — power out, nearby buildings destroyed, some student housing damaged,… Read more »