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The Big Picture .- Chile -- (link) - marcel Feb 27, 10:28
weekends are when cruise ships dock & change passangers, refuel, etc. It is also summer in Chile and the height of the tourist season. - peglegpete Feb 27, 10:27 3
- I saw a report of a cruise ship being allowed in to Honolulu before dawn and then sent back out to sea. All boats were instructed to leave the - MojaveMeg Feb 27, 10:42 2
  - sure you'll hardly if at all notice a tsunami out on the open seas -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 27, 10:47
  - ...allowed in *to refuel*... -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 27, 10:43
46 aftershocks now. -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 10:24 1
- 48 -- nm - mara Feb 27, 10:46
You can follow worldwide earthquakes on Twitter. -- (link) - Dano Feb 27, 10:06
Key differences between the Haiti and Chile quakes. -- (link) - loosilu Feb 27, 10:05
So my Saturday Netflix movie is... ... Adventureland. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 10:00 7
- it's ok. -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 10:23 3
  - ok- -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 27, 10:39
  - I think Kristen Stewart = Neve Campbell -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 10:29 1
    - yeah. she's just ok, not terrible, but not great either. -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 10:36
- Kennywood! -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 27, 10:03
- I was kind of bored by it. -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 10:02 1
  - I was kind of bored by the Miramax promotion starting the DVD. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 10:04
heh I love my cousin's wife, but I had to bite my tongue last night when she posted about the earthquake in Chili last night... - Stephen Feb 27, 09:58
Can't watch this with the sound on -- was the truck still running? Or just in neutral? -- (link) - mara Feb 27, 09:57 [youtube] 1
- Can't tell, the yelling of the guy with the camera was too loud. -- nm - CovingtonCat Feb 27, 10:29
I've found the theme song for the JackDawson Show. -- (link) - Dano Feb 27, 09:48 [youtube] 3
- lots of CGI in the video, Jack is in every frame looking like every "performer" !!!! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 27, 09:53
- "The film advertised has been rated: Party Rockin'" -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 27, 09:53
- Just so it ends with "for the Jack Dawon Shoooooowww!" and has dancing girls. -- nm - mara Feb 27, 09:52
Dogs in slo-mo at 1000 frames per second. -- (link) - mara Feb 27, 09:44 [youtube] 2
- that was cool Mara - thanks for the link -- nm - JenBro Feb 27, 10:50
- that's fantastic. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 09:51
Finally, the individual jet pack. -- (link) - mara Feb 27, 09:38 [youtube] 2
- Heh, ty97 needs to get a price on this and forward to his boss :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 27, 10:40
- like taken from a mythbusters episode - Danedukenuuk Feb 27, 09:40
New Zealand is probably the best warning place in the pacific in the next houer or so right? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 27, 09:37 2
- French Polynesia, Easter Island, etc -- nm - Roger More Feb 27, 09:39 1
  - small places not mutch variation in coastline there -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 27, 09:41
"Shorts, Not Sweet." -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 09:35
Coastal Chile has a history of deadly earthquakes, according to the USGS. Since 1973, there have been 13 quakes of magnitude 7.0 or higher. - ty97 Feb 27, 09:33 7
- Breakingnews on Twitter says they've had 34 aftershocks. -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 09:38 1
  - 35 now -- nm - mara Feb 27, 09:40
- Though to be fair, that one plate is like diving into the earth there. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 09:37 3
  - yep it created the andes too so it's a messy place -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 27, 09:38 1
    - I'm telling Andie you're talking smack about her! -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 10:01
  - they have earthquakes all the time, CNN said. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 09:38
- In 1960 they had a 9.5 -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 09:34
Gayest cats ever. -- (link) - mara Feb 27, 09:32 [youtube] 3
- *adds this to the shorts program* -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 09:55 1
  - L4 -- nm - JenBro Feb 27, 10:45
- That's unnatural. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 27, 09:52
8.8 that shook for 90 seconds according to our friends with family in Chile. And now Hawaii is being evacuated. - CrankYanker Feb 27, 09:18 1
- wow. -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 09:28
the HAARP conspiracy people are going nuts right now. -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 08:39 2
- HAB Theory -- nm - Max Feb 27, 08:40 1
  - that's an interesting one -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 08:42
@WheresItShaking has 25 Twitter posts in the last 24 hours. -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 08:37
twitter NavyNews references Chief of Naval Operations - on Facebook - marcel Feb 27, 08:23
@BreakingNews: Magnitude 6.3 quake hits Argentina, centered near Salta - U.S. Geological Survey -- nm - marcel Feb 27, 08:10 11
- holy crap. what's going *on*? -- nm - sluttella Feb 27, 08:12 10
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    - *snaps her fingers* You better recognize! -- nm - Mutha Natch Feb 27, 09:36
  - God likes celebrity telethons. -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 08:39
  - The run-up to 2012 has begun. -- nm - mara Feb 27, 08:30
  - Best we can do here is 4.1 - and I'll gladly settle for that :/ -- (link) - MojaveMeg Feb 27, 08:23 2
    - nice for a lazy person like me - marcel Feb 27, 08:27 1
      - Michelle Hunziker on TV tonight !!!!!! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 27, 08:39
  - Quake-a-palooza '10!!! WOOO!!! - Cuzzin Todd Feb 27, 08:21
  - South America's going to split and forgot to tell anyone in advance. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 08:13 1
    - they just want a better timezone for the soccer WC in south Africa i guess! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 27, 08:39
http://twitter.com/NavyNews has a nice Twitter list for the Pacific tsunami. -- (link) - mara Feb 27, 07:41
wooooohooooo! -- nm - JaxSean at AMC Best Picture Showcase Feb 27, 07:30 2
- What's up first? - Dano Feb 27, 07:36 1
  - Avatar A-. Up in the Air is next. -- nm - JaxSean at AMC Best Picture Showcase Feb 27, 10:33
Live broadcast from Hawaii. -- (link) - mara Feb 27, 07:09
Map of the projected tsunami -- (link) - mara Feb 27, 07:07 [Image] 7
- before everyone flips out, notice that the highest waves on that projection are 100 cm (1 meter). -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 09:35 2
  - I think after 2.5 hours we can rest easy that nobody's going to "flip out." -- nm - mara Feb 27, 09:53 1 1
    - I always forget how slow the weekend boards are. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 10:07
- How do ships at sea handle this? -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 09:34 1
  - I'm pretty sure they float. :) -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 09:35
- That is fucking scary looking! -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 09:28 1
  - Oh, stop flipping out. -- nm - mara Feb 27, 10:38
from B2, and why you'd bother counting any medals other than gold ? ... well,... - i'm not dead yet ! Feb 27, 06:58 4
- It's just a joke because Canada has won more gold medals than the US -- nm - Roger More Feb 27, 07:02 3
  - As far as I know, it's traditional to show the medal counts by gold.. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 27, 07:44 1
    - Canada does the same as the US so it would be kind of wrong to change it now (though I swear I've seen this happen in Australia) - Roger More Feb 27, 08:12
  - (so far) -- nm - Roger More Feb 27, 07:03
in "important" news ... Tiger Woods loses Gatorade sponsorship -- (link) - zork Feb 27, 06:45
LYC- Typing my leases is fun! *sarcasm* -- nm - lileve Feb 27, 06:33 3
- my=up -- nm - lileve Feb 27, 06:33 2
  - see, this is hysterical because you typod while complaining about typing. -- nm - sluttella Feb 27, 08:11 1
    - Hehe! -- nm - lileve Feb 27, 08:11
quake in Chile now reported as 8.8 and largest aftershock so far was 6.9. The main quake in Haiti was 6.9 although I expect that loss of life won't be - zork Feb 27, 04:57 18
- They really don't get much bigger than 8.8.... 9.5 is the highest I could find with quick googling. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 09:29 1
  - In fact, that 9.5 was in the same area. -- (link) - Qale Feb 27, 09:32
- CNN speaking with a reporter who is in Santiago now. She lived in NY at 9/11 - marcel Feb 27, 06:59
- Crap my friend just flew into Santiago last week -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 27, 06:17
- CNN just showed a picture of cars flipped over. Looked like popcorn in a way -- nm - zork Feb 27, 05:50 4
  - CNN reporter says he was thrown out of bed -- nm - marcel Feb 27, 05:59 3
    - CNN reporter is a stinky????? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 27, 06:10 2
      - maybe the CNN was eating crackers in bed -- nm - zork Feb 27, 06:35 1
        
        the CNN *reporter* -- nm - zork Feb 27, 06:36
- Hawaii tsunami sirens will sound at 6am -- nm - marcel Feb 27, 05:42 5
  - how is a 3-6 ft tsunami wave dangerous to a sea harbour? there must be bigger waves during any storn or hurricane, no? -- nm - marcel Feb 27, 06:07 4
    - depending om topography 3-6 ft. can increse significantly close to shore -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 27, 07:56
    - During a stomrmost people know to stay inside, out of the weather, and won't be sailing in boats or fishing from the docks - Roger More Feb 27, 07:01
    - Maybe because normal waves land on a beach and then recede. Tsunami waves don't recede for a while. (They're not even waves, really.) -- nm - mara Feb 27, 06:56 1
      - "Tsunami waves as far away as Hawaii could last six to 10 hours" - Pacific Tsunami Warning Center -- nm - mara Feb 27, 07:02
- Holy crap. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 05:38
- wiki page -- (link) - marcel Feb 27, 05:30
- the other thing though is that so many people gave for Haiti and I expect many are tapped out and donations will be way lower (the giant guinea pigs - zork Feb 27, 05:00
Smallville Spoilers - flavorize Feb 27, 03:44
~I remember~ / ~When we could sleep on stones~ / ~Now we lie together~ / In whispers and moans~ - ReluctantCynic Feb 27, 01:03
People who "have better things to do than watch the Olympics on TV" yet have time to post about it on facebook confuse me... -- nm - Subversive Feb 27, 00:17 1
- obviously the better things include mousehunt or mafiawars or farmville -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 00:18
ST Creativity Powers Needed - Dano Feb 26, 23:59 24
- how about naming the festival "Things Best Left Unsaid" ? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Feb 27, 07:52
- "Holy Shorts!!!" - weak I know but I'm tired today. I think Andies conveys the "content warning" best so far -- nm - JenBro Feb 27, 07:40
- "Shorts That Challenge You" or "Bet These Shorts Are Tougher Than You" -- nm - Fuzzy Feb 27, 06:52
- Soil Your Shorts -- nm - Roger More Feb 27, 06:24
- It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Film Festival -- nm - Max Feb 27, 06:21
- "Definitely Not Your Parents Shorts" -- nm - Andie Feb 27, 06:03
- Extremely Short Extreme Shorts -- nm - TFox Feb 27, 04:36
- Not For The Faint Of Heart Shorts or Dramatically Disturbing Shorts -- nm - flavorize Feb 27, 03:20 1
  - Or, Powerfully Provocative and Unequivocally Unnerving Shorts -- nm - flavorize Feb 27, 03:23
- Short Disturbance: Minutes of Film to Scar a Lifetime -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 27, 00:41
- I'll probably schedule them late at night too. I guess the old Midnight Shorts standby would convey the message too. -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 00:28 1
  - "Shorts AFFter Dark" -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 27, 00:29
- Choose the one with the hotter dude. -- nm - psilotum Feb 27, 00:20 1
  - That was a completely different one. - Dano Feb 27, 00:27
- "Films Subversive has no interest in watching" -- nm - Subversive Feb 27, 00:18
- these shorts are full of crap, arty crap but still -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 00:16 2
  - i think dano's going for something a little more condescending -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 27, 00:18 1
    - ok, how about "Lucas' parents spent 100,000 on USC film school and got THX-1138, take a look at what these parents got" -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 00:54
- something with "Faint of Heart" - jingoist pixie Feb 27, 00:15 2
  - Damn, I just saw this post. Beat me too it by, just hours ;) -- nm - flavorize Feb 27, 03:21
  - "Can This Pickle Get More Fans Than These Messed Up Shorts?" -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 27, 00:26
- "Literally a Kick in the Shorts-Shorts." "Not On Your Short List." "What. The. Shorts." -- nm - JaxSean Feb 27, 00:09
- "shorts b. will never watch." - b! Feb 27, 00:08
- how about "holy fucking shit this shit is fucked in the shit, what the fuck?", in a Benicio del Toro voice? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 00:00
~Breathe, breathe in the air~ / ~Don't be afraid to care~ / ~Leave, but don't leave me~ -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 26, 23:49
I hope no one was injured in that 8.5 chilean quake -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 23:26 16
- an 8.5 quakes is massive, unless it's in the middle of nowhere, i don't think it's possible. -- nm - Andie Feb 27, 06:04
- not to be morbid, but if no one got injured in an 8.5, that's shocking -- nm - Guy Feb 27, 01:05
- Tsunami advisory in Hawaii; Warnings in Chile, Peru; Watch in Ecuador -- (link) - psilotum Feb 26, 23:58 1
  - second advisory today, after the 7.5 in Japan earlier -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 23:59
- Crash needs 2 XP and -this- is what you're doing instead? Harrumph. -- nm - David Feb 26, 23:41 11
  - I was also watching burn notice. Someone should go back in time and tell Loosi to watch it instead of Psych. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 26, 23:47 10
    - This is your explanation? You're a terrible ally. -- nm - David Feb 27, 00:11 9
      - Halo annoys me lately. It's too stressful. MW2 is much more relaxing. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 00:12 8
        
        You sicken me. -- nm - David Feb 27, 00:19 5
        
        Bah. You'll take what I give you and like it. - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 27, 00:32 2
        
        Way to try to break up the band, Yoko. -- nm - David Feb 27, 00:55 1
        
        You know that makes you part of the Beatles, right? There's a certain irony in you using this insult. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 08:14
        
        Don't worry. We got it without you, Mr. Unhelpful. -- nm - David Feb 27, 00:32 1
        
        I thought I was gifted at guilt trips ... next to you I'm amateur hour! heh heh ... this totally made me laugh .. the Yoko part especially. -- nm - JenBro Feb 27, 07:44
        
        (That's why I went at least two weeks without playing Halo - or at least, that's what it felt like) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 00:14 1
        
        yep, last time I played was feb 13th -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 00:15

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