How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly: epic survey of how the tsunami news broke, or failed to. For some reason, right about when the quake had been first reported I adjourned from our Christmas gathering for a moment and walked back in to the living room to announce the quake news. Earlier that day I had IMed with my friend and ex-bandmate Karl, who had been in Phuket earlier in December and was planning on heading back. He was in Saigon when we chatted.

pf.org: Part Man, Part Machine, wherein pf details the wonders of contemporary laparoscopic surgery.

May I also belatedly call your attention to Danelope’s fine Christmas roundup, allegedly assembled while frantically scouring the darknet for childhood-memory holiday music and simultaneously burning a btach of holiday cookies. Only via the good offices of the Suicide Girls was disaster averted, as I have it. The elusive creature (like the zebra mussel, a non-native Floridian species) swears that he will attend the impending January 3rd mini-mefi-meetup at PNW North Intl Mefi/Mofi HQ.

Barring unspeakable pain.

Historical tsunamis off the coast of Peru.

Historical tsunami databases (Unesco).

Oregon Tsunamis.

Pacific Tsunamis.

I looked, but found no documentation of tsunamis contributing directly to large-scale human migration.