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[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.
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[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 »
How lucky was the University of Alabama?
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 »
After the tornadoes, a 100-year Mississippi River flood?
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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] After the tornadoes, a 100-year Mississippi River flood? #PANIC!
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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] These were the most intense super-cell thunderstorms that I think anybody who was out there forecasting has ever seen. If you experienced a direct hit from one of these, you’d have to be in a reinforced room, storm shelter or underground [to survive]. Greg Carbin, NWS meteorologist
War Damn Eagle & Roll Tide Roll
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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Auburn fans on the receiving end of Tide for Toomer’s have started Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa to support their tornado-stricken rivals at Alabama. It’s a very small thing amid all the overwhelming, tragic devastation – now 272 dead and counting, seemingly putting yesterday’s tornado outbreak on track to become one of… Read more »
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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] My first Instalanche in more than nine months is bringing in almost 1,000 visitors per hour at the moment. I like Instalanches better when they don’t arise out of death and destruction, though.
Scam Cam Newton number 1 pick of 2011 NFL Draft
The Carolina Panthers chose Auburn QB Cam Newton with the number one pick of the 2011 NFL draft. Life should be much simpler for Newton now that he is in a league where getting paid to come play for a team isn’t a major rules violation. More draft coverage via the NFL Draft page.
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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The death toll from yesterday’s historic tornado outbreak is now well over 200. Here’s my latest update, posted at the hangout of the late Alan Sullivan’s “rare readers.”
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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] When I tried to type “birthers” on my iPhone just now, it was autocorrected to “northers.” What does Steve Jobs know that we don’t??? Was Obama born in Canada???