Holy Flying Cows, Batman !

May 5th, 2003

Tornados ravaged much of the Midwest yesterday, including western and northern portions of the Kansas City area,
where hundreds of houses have been damaged or destroyed.
-KC Star summary
-National Weather Service map
-Photos
-twister video (Windows Media)
-How to help

I saw lots of people out storm chasing/spotting. Case Park on the bluffs Downtown was packed with people watching the storm move across the Northland, as was the road around the Downtown Airport.
This was probably the worst tornado in the immediate KC area since the
1957 Ruskin Heights tornado
(More Photos
/ Story)


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Photo of the Week

May 4th, 2003

Some of the storms on May 4th that produced several tornadoes across Kansas City and the rest of the Midwest.


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Finally a Usable Digital Music Service

May 1st, 2003

Steve Jobs has managed to do what no one else has done so far – wrangle realistic digital music licensing terms out of the big five record companies. Apple's new iTunes Music Store is an amazing achievement: 99¢ per-track downloads, $10 albums, and reasonable digital rights management that allows you to burn to CD or transfer to an iPod. The community is already finding coolio ways to extend the service.

-Linking to Music Store info or XML data.

-Sharing iTunes music over the Internet.


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