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Google set up a crisis response page here:
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
The Google page has a person finder, maps, and information on subjects such as shelters, transportation, rolling blackouts, and donations.
To see video on events as they happen, check out NHK World (English) on the digitial over-the-air channel 30-2 from the MHz network which is broadcast from Falls Church, Virginia for the DC area. Or see NHK World streaming online at their Ustream page.
Google just added this nifty instant preview feature to their mobile searches.
Here’s the official video from Apple from their March 2 announcement:
And here’s the best parody video that I’ve seen of it so far:
If you have new RAM in your Mac or if you are trying to diagnose weird shutdowns and problems, you should consider testing your RAM. An easy way to do so is to follow these instructions from the command-tab article “How to Test RAM Under Mac OS X“.
This will take several hours to run but should diagnose the tricky problem of bad RAM.
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera English has a live stream that has the most in-depth coverage of events in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt, Iran:
Tweet Mashup
From the MIBAZAAR Blog, there is a Twitter Mashup of protests:
Here’s a look at Middle East “Protests” on Twitter which are mapped out on Google Maps. This Google Maps Mashup shows the latest tweets from around Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Iran tagged with the respective country names. The map animates thru the latest protest tweets from the region. The tweets are displayed at geotagged location on the map at an interval of 5 seconds.
By selecting the country name on the left of the map (via radio buttons) you can view the tweets from those countries.
