The Earth (and then some)

...on a variety of topics: The Pacific Gyre full of trash: Photos , Story , more information Re-surveying California's wildlife Peregrine falcons in San Francisco. San Francisco Bay invasive species Finally, the geographile tag . The picture I blogged this with is from the NYC Subway station under the Museum of Natural History. If you click on it, you'll see a note in the lower right ...

News of my demise...

... in your MacBook, it'll even take pictures. Thieves beware! Auntie Beeb has an article on the Hayward Fault . It includes a simulation video. Maybe I should post that on geographile ... Gamer surgeons are better cutters than those who don't play. Remember the governor of Illinois commuting all those death sentences ? I learned some context , today... Science Blog notes that ...

geographile/cartographic event in SF Bay area

From: Stewart Brand Date: Oct 8, 2007 10:43 AM Subject: [SALT] The graphic nature of discovery FRIDAY Oct 12 (for forwarding) To: salt@list.longnow.org Juan Enriquez has made a world-class collection of historic maps which were drawn at the very point of discovery. This Friday he'll deploy them for the first time in one of his dazzling presentations, to examine how we image and imagine what we ...

Yosemite , October 2007

Tsunami warning updates for North American Pacific Coast (so far, none here, but advisories are in effect for Central and South America's Paciific Coasts, and Hawaii's been advised to watch.

How about this for a ride at the State Fair? ;)

"World's most extreme earthquake simulator 4/28/07 Californians get a lesson in disaster preparedness with the world's biggest and most realistic mobile earthquake simulator. " CLICK ABOVE TO LINK Credit: Weather.com Video on Demand Cross posted to relevant communities twc_aficionados , w_coast_weather , and geographile