BBC NEWS | US pledges $350m in tsunami aid

And thank God for it.

Here's a graphic from Cockeyed.com comparing the death count from the Tsunami to the deaths at the World Trade
Center.

Currently, these are the two biggest disasters of my lifetime, and the one seems barely a disaster at all.

Here's a great tip for getting firefox to load your pages faster; multithread it!

Boing Boing: Go-faster tweak for Firefox

I turned on network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining and set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 15 and it already helped dramatically. I'll mess with these settings some more to see what I can get out of it.

Kevin Sites Blog has a first hand report and pictures of the tsunami. A good report in a place where few reports seem to be able to get into.

BBC reports on a Red Cross representative saying that the death toll 'could exceed 100,000'. This will be one of the worst natural disasters ever.

I'm happy to see Bush stepping up and building a coalition to lead the recovery efforts. But he's only pledging $35 million to the effort to save the survivors, far less then the $225 billion he's spending to kill Iraqis.