New Orleans Dispatch: Isaac Is Not Katrina
Source: www.tnr.com - Tuesday, August 28, 2012
I walked down Royal Street this afternoon as Hurricane Isaac approached, my husband photographing boarded up windows, a platoon of Humvees, and an abandoned bra lying in the street. Everyone's getting in on the live coverage action. Al Roker tweeted a picture of a rosy but abandoned Cafe Du Monde; Anderson Cooper Instagrammed the sunset. Meteorologists are at the lakefront, their jackets whipping around in the wind that's projected to hit 80 miles an hour by this morning. A dog and a moron are swimming in waves lapping at the levee. Isaac is not Katrina : we've been repeating that like a mantra all week. That it'll hit on the same calendar date seven years later is just a stupid coincidence. For one, this hurricane isn't supposed to be as strong. We're also receiving all sorts of assurances from the Army Corps of Engineers about how reliable the levees are, though we were hoping for some more time to test them. As far as I can tell, we're preparing differently, too. We've learned things. I have friends with a safe room, barricaded from the inside to keep their generator dry. And, of course, we're handling it in ways that are more familiar: Rouse's Supermarket chain announced that they sold a record amount of alcohol yesterday. As we stock up, a balding man in an oversized green jacket is walking up and down the aisles at the store in the French Quarter mumbling “food first” to himself. He's either not used to food shopping, or h
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Samsung Electronics introduces Drive Link – The smartphone app for drivers
Source: global.samsungtomorrow.com - Monday, August 27, 2012
Samsung Electronics launched Drive Link , an innovative in-car smartphone application designed for safe use while driving. Drive Link is built around the three most popular uses of smartphones while driving: listening to music, navigating to a destination and talking hands-free. It also includes shortcuts to other useful driving applications that have also met exacting safety certification stan
