The mayor of New Orleans announced that free wifi will be available throughout the Big Easy. Hardware mounted on street lights enable the entire city to be covered. The equipment was donated by Intel, Tropos Networks, and Prontos Networks.
The network will be at a mere 512KB during the state of emergency, but will be dropped to a laughable 128KB afterwards. The speed decrease is the result of a state law that restricts government-owned Internet services.
I am not sure if I consider this sad or funny or both. You be the judge:
The Dave Matthews Band will be peforming a beneft concert on September 12th, 2005 for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The concert will be held in Red Rocks Amphitheatre, tickets are on sale at the warehouse.
DMB has also teamed up with Conscious Alliance to conduct a food drive at each of the Red Rocks shows. You can also donate to the Bama Works Hurricane Relief Fund.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the communities that have been hit by the hurricane. The devastation and human loss is heart breaking. In an effort to raise funds to assist the victims, Dave Matthews Band will be performing a special benefit concert that will take place on Monday, September 12, 2005 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. All proceeds from the event will be collected by Bama Works Fund and distributed to appropriate relief charities.
I wish my hosting company was this dedicated. Employees of a New Orleans company hosting 800,000 websites have been holed up in their office building since Sunday. They have vowed not to let the hurricane shut them down. Crisis Manager, Michael Barnett, has been communicating to the world from his blog.
The last entry which states they are in need of diesel fuel. And are close to shutting down due to non-delivery of scheduled fuel.
Good Luck out there!
Interesting photos of the disaster from their site.
UPDATE: As of 7:15 AM they are not out of fuel yet. But the fuel truck was to be there at 6 AM.
UPDATE 2: Fuel drop successful. They will remain online.
Today, George Bush was quoted as saying “It’s as if the entire Gulf Coast were obliterated by the worst kind of weapon you can imagine.”. While some people read the statement as nothing more then another stupid misinformed blurb out of his mouth there is some truth to it.
Just about every human being is totally unaware that technology exists NOW, whereby weather can be used as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Please see all the links below which will explain this NEW SCALAR TECHNOLOGY, whose principles were developed by Nikolai Tesla. Tesla, whose name was literally eliminated from history books, gave the world alternating electric current, robotics, light bulbs and so much more of what we now call “modern technology”. Tesla also had a plan of how he was going to give FREE ENERGY to everyone on Planet Earth and this is the main reason you do not read about this incredible man, who passed away in the early 1900’s.
Today, Tesla’s SCALAR technology is being used by the U.S.A., Russia, Japan and possibly others to create Weather Weapons of Mass Destruction. Since the People have not been made aware of this amazing technology, the individuals {the Illuminati}, who control the world’s major governments, can use Scalar technology “for profit” without being detected by the over six billion human beings on Planet earth.
Read the entire article here
Bungie is offering a “Fight the Flood” t-shirt that will benefit the Red Cross for the current Katrina tragedy.
The pitch:
Seriously. Stop reading for a minute, get a credit card, go to the website and buy the T-Shirt. It’s $19.99 and about $15 of that will go directly to the Hurricane Relief effort, through the American Red Cross. Not a penny profit will be made and every cent of cash will go where it’s needed.
Bungie is graciously offering all the royalties from their online store during the month of September to the Red Cross. Very cool of these guys to step up like that. Just remember other corporate citizens are helping out too.
Additionally, Bungie Studios is going to donate all of the royalties we earn on any other Bungie Store products for the month of September to the Red Cross. So if you feel inclined to grab something else while you’re here, know that a portion of that will also go to those in need.
Owner of Katrina.com, a web developer in Virginia, updates site with emergency numbers and message board for Katrina victims and family members.
With so many people contacting her about the domain name, she decided to post information helpful to Katrina survivors. Even rejecting a $5,000 offer for the domain name.
Satellite image of hurricane Katrina from NASA.
Check out the before and after pictures of New Orleans.
Latest information on recovery efforts and how to donate. Here is a list of companies donating to the relief effort and their contribution.
And last but not least, get your “I Survived Hurricane Katrina” merchandise here.
