Quick Links to the Japan Quake - UPDATED

Fire boats battle a blaze at the Cosmo Oil facility in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo March 12, 2011. (REUTERS/Kyodo)

Busy.

But I just think some additional quake links are in order.

The Atlantic has large resolution pictures of the disiaster:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/#

Kottke has been linking to Al Jazerra's coverage, much better than CNN's

http://kottke.org/

http://kottke.org/11/03/photos-of-the-japanese-earthquake-and-tsunami

Update: Marzo 18, 2011
No tengo tiempo de estar viendo lo que ha pasado con la situacion de Daiichi y la planta nuclear de TESCO asi que les dejo links con los que saben.  Este link es para uno de los bulletin boards de Metafilter, muy interesantes links:
http://www.metafilter.com/101627/Japanpostearthquake-nuclear-crisis-keeps-going

Otrs buena fuente aqui:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7675

La imagen del articulo sale de aqui, es Chernobyl sobrepuesto a Japon, para poner las cosas en perspectiva.:
http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2011/03/chernobyl-as-worst-case-for-japan.html

Mas fotos aqui, BEFORE and AFTER slider:
http://flowingdata.com/2011/03/18/japan-satellite-photos-show-before-and-after/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html

Mas imagenes de the Atlantic aqui:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/japans-earthquake---the-aftermath/100023/
De aqui sale la imagen de alta resolucion arriba.

Mapas, mapas, mapas
http://maps.unomaha.edu/peterson/funda/MapLinks/Japan.htm

Dilema moral.  Sacrificio por hacer lo correcto.
Sacrificarias tu vida o afectarias tu salud a sabiendas si eso implica que evito una catastrofe?
Punto negativo: los kamikaze
Punto positivo: la resistencia, los del underground train

Si sale de mi, que bien, es loable.
Else, mi vida por la gran empresa.
Puedo correro y dejar la compa/nia en el cuerno.  Pero es moralmente correcto?  Podre vivir con no haber hecho nada?  http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7086/fukishimas_nuclear_martyrdom_and_occupational_hazards_of_the_atomic_ag/

The workers are being asked to make escalating — and perhaps existential — sacrifices that so far are being only implicitly acknowledged: Japan’s Health Ministry said Tuesday it was raising the legal limit on the amount of radiation to which each worker could be exposed, to 250 millisieverts from 100 millisieverts, five times the maximum exposure permitted for American nuclear plant workers.
The change means that workers can now remain on site longer, the ministry said. “It would be unthinkable to raise it further than that, considering the health of the workers,” the health minister, Yoko Komiyama, said at a news conference. There was also a suggestion on Wednesday that more workers may be brought to help save the power station.

What would Spock Do?
http://mediumtimes.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-would-spock-do-wwsd.html

radiation chart xkcd (grande debajo)

buenos mapas del modelaje de Cesio Radioactivo
Incluye Plumachos si ruedan hacia debajo
http://www.zamg.ac.at/aktuell/index.php?seite=1&artikel=ZAMG_2011-03-19GMT18:50
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zamg.ac.at%2Faktuell%2Findex.php%3Fseite%3D1%26artikel%3DZAMG_2011-03-19GMT18%3A50
http://xkcd.com/radiation/
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/19/graphic-chart-showin.html

Ambientes de Trabajo Toxicos

No he mantenido esta pagina desde hace unos cuantos dias. Entre mudanzas, peque/nas crisis y otros asuntos mas he relegado el blog a un segundo plano. Como hace tiempo no presento un articulo per se les discuto este interesante tema que vi hace par de meses atras. Luego le seguire a/nadiendo.

En resumen, trata de como el Sistema nos absorbe y nos afecta si tan si quiera percibirlo. Llama el sistema como quiera, pero estos elementos siempre estan presentes. Conocer las causas es el inicio de poder solucionarlas. Por lo menos veo que no soy el unico que piensa asi.

http://kottke.org/10/06/creating-a-sick-system

Creating a sick system

Really disturbing piece about how to make someone dependent on you...i.e. "creating a sick system". Here are the four basic rules:

1. Keep them too busy to think.
2. Keep them tired.
3. Keep them emotionally involved.
4. Reward intermittently.

Then the author provides a number of techniques you can use to achieve those goals. Like:

Keep real rewards distant. The rewards in "Things will be better when..." are usually nonrewards -- things will go back to being what they should be when the magical thing happens. Real rewards -- happiness, prosperity, career advancement, a new house, children -- are far in the distance. They look like they're on the schedule, but there's nothing in the To Do column. For example, everything will be better when we move to our own house in the country... but there's nothing in savings for the house, no plan to save, no house picked out, not even a region of the country settled upon.

http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html

Este es el articulo original. Muy interesante la lectura. Con ese proposito dejo un video relacionado aqui:

http://videolimbo.blogspot.com/2008/01/muffs-dont-pick-on-me-2004.html



En otros temas, ya me entregaron el Aerio. Transita de nuevo tras estar a/no y medio varado en casa, con muchos yerbajos debajo. Era la transmision y las puntas de eje. Ese tema de por si requiere un post aparte. Maybe despues...