Japan's natural disaster

First a few videos:

  

This shows us the true power of nature.  We are weak and helpless when we see this.  Anyway, check out these before and after pictures of the tsunami and earthquake:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html

Also, apparently the length of days has been minutely shortened and the tilt of the earth on its axis has been slightly altered.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/asia/14seismic.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage

The only thing I can think of is that it happened in a country where they are organized and disciplined and so at least they will be able to deal with this disaster in a more efficient manner than a lot of other cultures would be able to.  Look at this picture of a water distribution place:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2058378_2254685,00.html




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I must be living in the past, since I have a blog

Apparently blogging is being pushed aside by social networking and sites like Twitter.  It seems that sites like Tumblr are doing ok because people really are too lazy to write anymore.  They just want to send out their three word monosyllabic messages to their friends.  Oh well, I guess I am maybe a bit late to start my blog, but I am not giving up yet! 

Here is the nytimes article about it:  Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter

Any people out there still old-school enough to blog?




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More on search engine optimization

Here is another article about SEO (search engine optimization) from the NY Times.  I think I find this interesting because I think that  the majority of people take for granted a tool such as google.  Everyone uses it without really thinking of how it works or why certain things appear when we do a search.  People assume that it is a natural order and that things that appear near the top are the most perninent, interesting or useful.  Not so.  Enjoy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html?src=me&ref=homepage

Apparently I am not the only one who finds this interesting since it is one of the most emailed articles they have.




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Search engine optimization and the news

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/business/media/11search.html?src=me&ref=homepage

This is scary.  Does it mean every time we surf the web we should be afraid that "reputatble" news sources are just making up articles using popular web searches to better their results in google in order for us to land on their page so that they can make more money on advertising?





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Pretty boys fighting

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/friday-night-fights/?scp=1&sq=fight%20club&st=cse

Straight from a Chuck Pahlaniuk book...  Models and VIPS in a fight club in New York.





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