Why in the name of all things holy does this link to pcmag? For godsake just go to nasa.gov. It doesn't make too much of a difference on this topic, but it's getting really bad. Just look at the Fukushima stories. I know it sounds silly to complain so much, but people seriously need to learn the difference—and more importantly how to find—primary sources. Intentional or not, there's a huge amount of misinformation out there and there's just no reason every article on /. needs to be routed through a blog post or two before you give up and go looking for the source material on your own. /. is clearly not the place for me. Will paste unknown garbage into password field and block site shortly...

I'm only commenting to undo my accidental 'redundant' mod, but I couldn't agree with you more. I try to resist idolizing anyone, but Glenn Gould... is an exception.

Excellent advice. I wasn't aware of that, although I've never donated to them. Thanks.

Not that it has to go to Japan, of course. I hear Africa could use some help too.

It's not just hype, it's a big deal. But next to the humanitarian crisis in Japan, it'll probably amount to small potatoes. At least a 2,414 killed and 3,118 missing.. It's never a bad time to donate to the American Red Cross. Or UNICEF. Or whichever charitiy you prefer based on your locale.

Actually, I think the problem is that the people here aren't the ones creating them...

Of course realizing something happened, computing predictions and distributing the information in a timely fashion is also non-trivial. I don't know exactly when they posted it, but there certainly wasn't much delay in getting predictions on the internet. The NOAA has some good information on their tsunami research program including information about today's event and a youtube video of the simulation

Agreed. Just got home from the funeral of one of the most well-rounded, energetic, and intelligent people I've been privileged to know. Cancer. I don't care if it's tethered to a Windows Phone as long as it helps.

It's probably a compromise on their part so no one can claim their website has been unfairly blocked. A user who has blocked the website has presumably been presented with search results, viewed the content, and has made a conscious decision to block it. Not that I disagree with you, of course. You're absolutely right.

Good point. You have to be logged in, so maybe there's enough information like login frequency, browsing habits, gmail usage, etc. that can be correlated with blacklisting to determine its value. A one-time account that blacklists a vast number of sites probably doesn't have much value.

How about avoiding ad revenue for a misleading site?

If you really don't want to send traffic their way, you can add the site to /etc/hosts before visiting (at least on *nix). Click the link, get an error, hit back, and block. They really do need to fix that though.

Whoosh!

Ohmygod. SETI, eh? Intelligent extraterrestrial beings have been sending us the digits of pi this whole time!

I hate to tell you,
but haiku have a fixed form:
five, seven, and five.