Not sure whether this qualifies as actually useful in any regard, or if it’s just Apocalypse Pandering; regardless, though, buying a year’s worth of food up front for a flat fee is an intriguing proposition. The question remains, though — is it tasty enough to warrant eating it outside of a disaster survival scenario? http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/lRM6Be7pg4s/costco-will-sell-you-an-apocalyptic-years-worth-of-disgusting-food-for-800

Looks like Mother Nature is doing her damnedest to drive us into more state bankruptcies; either that, or just to get us rebellious kids off her front lawn. Of course, I don’t suppose our chronic lack of infrastructure funding has anything to do with this failure… The roads on either side of the dam — […]

Crisis in Kyrgyzstan – The Big Picture – Boston.com Posted using ShareThis

Wonkette grabs a hold of the Indonesia earthquake and comes to the correct conclusion that we are all doomed; also manages to squeeze in an interesting mention of how the a lot of the Mid-Atlantic region is under wildfire fire alert due to the unusually warm spring. Then there’s California (which is perpetually under alert), […]

Israel’s gearing up for something. While stressing that there was no “imminent threat,” Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai in the same breath said: “We have equipped ourselves with millions of protection kits against biological or chemical warfare, and a massive distribution programme for the population started today,” […] “Every family in Israel can receive these […]

Seems like a morning for populist anger, at least in Asia. Within half an hour of each other, Kyrgyzstan and Thailand had both declared themselves in States of Emergency due to anti-government protests. According to CNN, the Thai protestors want their democratically elected leader back in office (it’s nice to have dreams), while the Kyrgyz […]

A fascinating article on the psychological effects of being close to the epicenter of a disaster zone. From the article: The “Psychological Typhoon Eye” describes an inverse relationship between the proximity of the victim to natural disaster devastation and their perceived health or safety risks. Essentially, if a person lives close to the center of the […]

First a 7.0 in Haiti, then a 7.2 out along the Cali/Mexico line, now a 7.7 out below Indonesia. Earthquakes seem to be Mother Nature’s disaster of choice for the first half of 2010. Nobody appears hurt, which is a nice change of pace. But still, as CNN’s Chad Meyers and Wolf Blitzer opine to point […]

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