UPDATE 01/10/2005 - Wizbang: Tsunami Video from Aceh, Indonesia
UPDATE 01/07/2005 - Wizbang's Tsunami Video Archive, Chrenkoff's Friday tsunami update
UPDATE: 01/05/2005 - Images from NASA's Earth Observatory, via My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
UPDATE: 01/04/2005 - Chrenkoff's tsusnami news update, The Moderate Voice tells of Heroic Elephants
UPDATES: 01/01/2005 - Very interesting reporting from India Uncut, a blog by Amit Varma, with pieces on disaster management, best intentions, the most affected, identity, VIPs, medical and psychological problems... and more. Just keep reading, but be warned that the writer isn't into euphemisms. (link via Instapundit)
Buy South Asian! NZ Bear is compiling a list of products we can buy from the affected areas. Since I'm going to be buying coffee anyway...
UPDATE 12/31/2004 - Videos: at Cheese and Crackers and Wizbang here, here, and here.
UPDATE 12/29/2004: The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami - SEA-EAT has an incredible amount of information. Go there and to The Command Post.
A short note to anyone of whatever political persuasion who thinks this event and its aftermath are opportunities: Please go sit in the corner quietly while concerned, competent, and compassionate people do what must be done.
For a comprehensive roundup of news and relief efforts, The Command Post. For photos, Yahoo.
UPDATES, ANALYSES, BACKGROUND INFORMATION, etc. (added throughout yesterday and today):
Classical Values: On the Slopes of Vesuvius, God didn't do it (And nature sometimes sucks)
Washington Post: When Disaster Strikes
USGS: Current Earthquakes: World
Belmont Club: The First Drops of Rain, The Wavefront of Death
Daniel W. Drezner: Unfortunately, This Qualifies as a "Mind-Blowing" Event
New Blog Devoted to this disaster (via Instapundit): The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami
Screenshots... Jeff Ooi: Donations and Aid - Think Global
Wikipedia (via Jeff Ooi): 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
The enormity of this tragedy... is overwhelming. The death toll continues to climb .
Scott at Speed of Thought covers the science
Tim Blair covers those that don't get the science and the whiners.
Wizbang has video. (I had to switch from Firefox to IE to watch it)
Washington Times: U.N. official slams U.S. as 'stingy' over aid (Ace has an opinion about that U.N. official)
Michelle Malkin: A Hat Tip to Aaron Wildavsky
Powerline: Asian Tsunami Toll Rising, A Different Kind of Anti-Israeli Homicide?, The Blame Game, and How to Help
The Moderate Voice: Tidal Wave Warning That never Came: Was It Like the Mayor in "Jaws?", Asian Blogs' Accounts