Forwarding this message. Pass it along. State OES has learned that trapped victims on the Gulf Coast are calling family, friends, loved-ones, or anyone they can get a call out to in California asking for someone to rescue them. These requests need to go immediately to the US Coast ...

Jose Moran, a former colleage from doomed startup EduPoint, sent us: Template Ready, a service that provides PowerPoint templates for quality presentations. I asked him about it: Well the idea came from working at edupoint. There was a big need from the Management tier for presentations. They had the ...

Remember the 2003 wildfires? Victims of Hurricane Katrina are attempting to recover from the massive storm that is still making its way across the Mid-Atlantic States. American Red Cross volunteers have been deployed to the hardest hit areas of Katrina’s destruction, supplying hundreds of thousands victims left homeless with ...

See: Fleet Science Center Joins World Community Grid: 1st Cultural Institute to Join Humanitarian Effort Hopes to Reach 100,000 in San Diego SAN DIEGO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 08/22/2005 -- The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, one of San Diego's most popular attractions with more than 550,000 annual visitors, ...

Union-Tribune gets around to reacting to craigslist and others. In an attempt to maintain readership of its classified advertising in the face of competition from growing Web sites, The San Diego Union-Tribune will begin offering free classified ads to individuals. Beginning tomorrow, the newspaper will offer three free lines of advertising for seven days ...

The Dave Matthews Lightshow Coors Amphitheater, Thursday, August 25, 2005. I might as well have forded a river and crossed the Northwest Passage for Dave Matthews. That may have been cheaper and easier. Getting to the show was a nightmare. A sea of multiple, single file autos and trailers ...

Guess who's coming to San Diego next week: Next Monday, Bush will again leave his ranch, traveling first to Arizona and Rancho Cucomonga in California for events related to Medicare. He will then spend Monday night in San Diego before his address at the naval air station. The president's travels come ...

route66 has donated computers to the San Diego Computer Museum and hopes that it finds the funding it needs. "On Saturday, August 27, 2005, the San Diego Computer Museum will be open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm to the public for the last time at Coleman College, La ...

Amazon releases San Diego mapping

USA Today's pilot-in-residence Meryl Getline, a former San Diegan, discusses the idiosyncrasies of and her experiences landing at Lindbergh Field: Interestingly enough, there used to be a cross runway at Lindbergh which has now been designated a taxiway. When I was first learning to fly, we'd come in from over ...

Bernie Dodge, in the recent Hot Dog Hall of Fame post sez: Too bad. I'd like to see a hot dog museum here. Seems like the kind of thing you'd find in the middle of North Dakota, though, and not here where there are other distractions. But that reminds ...

Yay San Diego Zoo! -- http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/. They've been around since May 2003??!?!

WIRELESS FLASH TURNS 25 on August 11th. Wireless Flash News Service is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Since August 11, 1980, Wireless Flash has been supplying self- generated offbeat pop culture news to hundreds of media outlets around the world including The Tonight Show, The Late Show, the New York Daily News ...

Not only are we dealing with the red tide (see post below), but there also has been an invasion of a rare type of jellyfish: "They're all over the place," Encinitas lifeguard Captain Larry Giles said Monday. "It's sick. We're getting so many jelly fish stings we can hardly ...

David Moye sent us: Hot Dog Museum Looking For A Home That Cuts The Mustard EL CAJON, Calif. (Wireless Flash) – The head of an organization called the “Hot Dog Hall Of Fame” is looking for a permanent home for his wiener collection. The man – who calls himself “Uncle Frank” ...

The two red tide pages we have on this site, from 2003, then 2005, have been two very popular threads. Maybe we need a "Red Tide Watch" page on this site! Anyway, can folks answer the following question? A reader asks in a comment: Traveling to San Diego on ...

From the L.A. Times: All Eyes on Home Market in San Diego: Dramatic rises in home prices, particularly on the West and East coasts, have sparked a nationwide debate about whether the housing market is engulfed in a bubble that is about to burst. San Diego has become a focal ...

Free Radio San Diego (FRSD 96.9 FM www.pirate969.org) is having a party and quasi-fundraiser this Sunday, August 7th in the Administrative Courtyard of Balboa Park. It's San Diego Day!!! What's San Diego Day? Well, it's an idea inspired by us over here at FRSD 96.9FM. The idea being to have ...

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SDUT's Weather Watcher, Robert Krier, puts last year's rainy season into perspective and provides this very interesting tidbit on the weather: Record rainfall was reported in San Diego a couple of Saturdays ago. Remember that deluge? Remember when you made sure the dinghy was tied near the back door and ...