Tag Archives: disaster

2010 Jun 26 Saturday

Map and Estimates of the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (via NYTimes.com)

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The New York Times has a kick ass group of info graphics to help you visualize the BP oil spill… Map and Estimates of the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico – Interactive Map – NYTimes.com.

by Dr. Agonize @ 7:59 pm

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2010 Jun 25 Friday

In Photos: Two months later, the oil still flows – Yahoo! News

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In Photos: Two months later, the oil still flows – Yahoo! News.

by Dr. Agonize @ 12:06 am

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2010 Jun 11 Friday

BP Oil Spill: Daily Dead Wildlife Tally (via Boing Boing)

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BP Oil Spill: Daily Dead Wildlife Tally – Boing Boing

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:28 pm

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2010 Jun 11 Friday

BP disaster update: 40,000 barrels a day, kill the birds, and a Rolling Stone bombshell (via Boing Boing)

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I’m going to defer to Boing Boing for oil spill coverage today. Here’s a good hook: • Rolling Stone: "The spill, the scandal and the president: The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world's most dangerous oil company get away with [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:13 pm

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2010 Jun 10 Thursday

Chamber Of Commerce Says Taxpayers Should Help Pay For BP Spill Cleanup; GOP Leader Agrees, Then Recants

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Hey there, Americans! I'm sure, by now, many of you have had some time to reflect on the massive, unfolding Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and thought to yourselves, "My, that really is a terrible, apocalyptic cock-up!" But have you gone so far as to think to yourself, "My, that really is a terrible, apocalyptic cock-up, [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:39 pm

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2010 Jun 08 Tuesday

PJ Hahn: ‘BP has lied to us from day one. We could have stopped the oil’ (via The Independent)

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"Hell," says PJ Hahn, the man at the very tip of the sharp end of America’s oil spill disaster, "we’re under siege here. If somebody was breaking into your house, would you get on the phone to friends and neighbours to discuss it? You’d shoot the sonofabitch. It’s that simple." PJ Hahn: ‘BP has lied [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:41 pm

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2010 Jun 07 Monday

An Environmental Disaster Unfolds – Photographs (via NYTimes.com)

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Our government must hold BP accountable for this disaster! Obama says he’s done everything he could have done since the spill started: That is why, from the beginning, we have worked to deploy every tool at our disposal to respond to this crisis. Today, there are more than 20,000 people working around the clock to [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:05 pm

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2010 Jun 03 Thursday

@BPGlobalPR sticks it to The Man

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All eyes are now on BP. No other company or agency involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster is as visible to the public as BP. This also means that BP is the number one culprit that the public is able to hold to account. Thanks to the “Social Web,” public and private organizations no longer [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 12:47 am

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2010 Jun 01 Tuesday

Awesome BP oil spill datasmut from Mother Jones

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Media companies today have the power to aggregate all available news and information about a media event, and so do readers. The news outlets that make readers do that legwork will lose popularity. Kudos to Mother Jones for taking advantage of Dipity.com’s visual aggregation services: To help keep track of the events, we’ve put together [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:33 am

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2009 Aug 30 Sunday

DataSmut: New Orleans since Katrina – (via CNN.com)

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Wired has Inforporn, and now we have DataSmut. It’s rare that the media updates us on how the government is fixing New Orleans, so I’d like to thank CNN for this very un-abstracted visualization of post-Hurricane Katrina civil engineering projects: Charting New Orleans’ progress since Katrina (via CNN.com)

by Dr. Agonize @ 10:22 pm

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