The New York Times has posted eight interactive satellite images of tsunami-ravaged cities in Japan. By moving the blue slider in the center of the image left and right, you can transition back and forth between the before and after images. (You can't do that on the screenshot shown here, only by going to the NYT site.) H/T: Richard Stephenson...

I was struck by the portentously antiquarian wording of the New York Times' lead headline the morning after the calamity in Port-au-Prince: Haiti Lies in Ruins; Grim Search for Untold Dead I may eventually have something to say about this ghastly, stultifying event, but for the moment, I am speechless. ...