Before And After

[filkertom]

Satellite photos of various Japanese cities. Move the sliders left and right to see the difference.

Here's a very small list of places to donate:

• Various charities, through PayPal (PayPal takes care of the fee, so every cent goes to the charity) -- I kicked in to the Red Cross
• The Hunger Site
• Crunchyroll, a legal anime site, that will match your donation
• Operation: USA
• Doctors Without Borders

If you'd like to link up to your favorite charity, feel free.

Comments

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Google has pulled together a bunch of resources too, great lists of charities, links to sources on different rail line and power status, maps, etc.
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

If you're in Canada, starting tomorrow, TD Canada Trust will be taking donations for the Japanese Red Cross through its online and phone banking systems and at all its branches.

[wingus.livejournal.com]

http://superherotime.chipin.com/super-hero-time

Bunch of Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and Power Rangers fansites, as well as some online retailers pulling together to donate.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

I'm just waiting for Pat Robertson to blame this on God's anger over Pearl Harbor. And then I'll do what I did for Haiti - count the words in his racist, hateful "Christian" speech, and pledge a dollar a word to Doctors Without Borders.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

There are a few web sites collecting some of the appalling comments from people who are indeed saying things like, "Now we're even for Pearl Harbor." As if [a] tectonic plates are agents of vengeance in international disputes and [b] two nuclear weapons weren't enough.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

... I really miss the days when I'd be surprised as well as horrified by these ugly, hateful, dirt-ignorant-and-damn-proud-of-it people.

DWB it is.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

You know how it is. Jews get blamed for the Titanic. Goldberg, Rosenberg, Iceberg, it's all the same.

;-)

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

For fans of Rene Auberjonois, or folks who might like buying things for such fans, a way to get double awesomeness:

http://www.renefiles.com/comlin11.html

I intend to send him a bra that was originally autographed by Peter S. Beagle. (Auberjonois voiced the Skull in the Last Unicorn movie, and is apparently quite the Beagle fan.)