Day September 12, 2008

Biggest US insurer goes cliff-diving

AIG joins the list of cratering financial institutions, after losing half its stock value in 5 days. There’s getting to be quite a passel of them, aren’t there? Washington Mutual, Wachovia, and Merrill are on the sick list too while…

Cat 5

“This is a Category 5 hurricane,” said Jeff Masters, co-founder of meteorological Web site The Weather Underground. “I don’t care what the Category 2 rating says.”

Tracking Ike realtime on Twitter

“A volunteer team of meteorologists and journalists are live tweeting throughout the Hurricane. Not a bot.” Via Digg. You can also “track #Ike” on Twitter to get tweets from whoever is using that tag. Both will have near-instantaneous news,…

Ike to be 115 mph at landfall

FEMA says it could be “catastrophic, let me repeat that, catastrophic.” The Houston Chronicle has live video, breaking coverage, and photos. Areas of Galveston are already underwater. Let’s hope this is not another “Isaac’s Storm“, which devastated Galveston in 1900.

Atmospheric water generators

This old technology, pulling moisture out of the air, has been updated. Atmospheric water generators can now purify the resulting water, and this could provide major benefit to areas where drinking water is not readily available. They can run on…