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The EROS Data Center (right here in South Dakota) is using its imagery to assist in the relief and recovery from Hurricane Katrina. USGS EROS is supporting first responders and emergency services working in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Within hours of Katrina's disastrous landfall on the Gulf Coast, EROS ...

Beware scammers using Katrina to fool charity contributors: Here's a depressing statistic. There are now some 2,300 Web sites advertising Hurricane Katrina relief services, and most of them are presumed to be bogus, the FBI said Friday. Twenty three hundred? Now there's a group of people that need to held ...

Those geniuses at Google are at it again, now providing satellite photos of the areas of New Orleans, LA, that were hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. If you do a Google Maps search for New Orleans, LA, you'll get the map of the city with an extra red button, labeled ...

Lawmaker: E-mails show Brown 'out of touch' during Katrina: If you're a government employee, watch what you send in an email, because all of it may get regurgitated very publicly. Emails sent by former FEMA chief Michael Brown around the time Katrina beat up on New Orleans have been published. ...

I don't think so, but I guess that's pretty subjective. Someone in the Orleans Public School system thinks they may have a gold mine on their hands in the form of waterlogged school buses. This New Orleans Public School Bus is a 1993 International Blue Bird with 147,797 miles. The ...

Here's a page listing the top Wikipedia pages, ranked by number of edits. There are a lot of administrative pages in the list, but the top actual pages are: George W. Bush (the discussion page for this would be ranked fifth) Hurricane Katrina Jesus Adolf Hitler United States September 2005 ...

Rebuilt New Orleans could be cutting edge: Very interesting idea here. Now how I'd want to advance my cities technology, but still interesting. Ugly as she was, Katrina may have given BellSouth a rare opportunity: the chance to turn one of the oldest cities in the USA into a showcase ...

Totally off-topic, but a friend of mine pointed me to a New York Times article, with this correction at the bottom: An article in Business Day about Brendon Loy, the Notre Dame student who was one of the earliest to sound the alarm about the potential threat to New Orleans ...

I just bumped into The Interdictor, a blog written by a guy working for an ISP in downtown New Orleans. This journal has become the Survival of New Orleans blog. In less perilous times it was simply a blog for me to talk smack and chat with friends. Now this ...

Monolithic Dome Institute: A year ago, we discussed a special type of dome home that survived Hurricane Ivan quite handily. A commentor to that post points us to this site, which is the manufacturer of that home. The site is filled with content about the "monolithic" style of dome -- ...

Runners' bar codes help health, safety officials at big events: They're doing something at the Boston Marathon that may help with mass crowds after Katrina-like natural disasters. All runners will have a bar code on their bibs so organizers can track them using handheld scanners should they require transportation or ...

La DOTD - LOOP: I was reading a USA Today article on the economic impact of Katrina and I came across reference to this item off the coast. "LOOP" stands for "Louisiana Offshore Oil Platform." It's an underwater oil-offloading station for tankers coming into the Gulf. The pictures are pretty ...