fortnightly boat

this movie appears to have just about everything.

i guess this is a serious environmental disaster, but i have to say i think the river looks much better.

just in time for football season!

another year, another triangle shirtwaist factory fire anniversary...

never forget by watching the PBS doc on your PBS roku channel tonight.

happening right now.

two windowwashers are dangling off the side of 1WTC. one of their wires broke.

these photos are pretty dramatic. here's a live feed.

what is it, disaster week or something?

first, the mysterious missing malaysian airliner, then the exploding building (which, jicyww, could happen anywhere at any time), and now this.

Early Thursday morning, a driver fleeing a DUI check point crashed into a crowd of people at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, killing two and injuring 23 others. (via)

has anyone checked the levels in the disaster eggs...

nErD aLeRt!

With a fifth of their population below sea level, the Dutch have historically been ahead of the curve when it comes to planning for ecological disasters. A new project from Dutch designer Pieter Stoutjesdijk takes that efficiency one step further, with an emergency shelter that can be built in a mere five hours. (via)

this is the southwest airlines flight from BNA to LGA that had its front wheel pop off

remember how i feel about southwest? via

poor, poor red hook fairway

Like much of Red Hook, Fairway was destroyed by the flood waters. Every single component of the store—from the food products to the cash registers to the shelves—was irreparably damaged. When I visited last week it was startling to see how completely the space had been stripped. What was once a bustling grocery store is now a brick-walled shell. However, Fairway will be able to come back. Unlike many of the other small businesses that were damaged, Fairway has the reserves to rebuild. It's taking a particularly long time because of the massive amounts of equipment that needed to be re-ordered. It's not the kind of stuff you can get from IKEA. In the meantime, though, every single worker who had been employed at the Red Hook branch has been reassigned to other Fairway locations and provided with free transportation to those satellite stores. (via)

she won't re-open until march. ;(

your fortnightly boat.

did y'all hear about this?

A luxury cruise liner, the Costa Concordia, ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, killing at least six people and forcing some 4,200 people on board to evacuate. (via)