You may have seen that Los Angeles recently ran a massive rehearsal for the Big One. The event reminds me of this terrorist attack simulation drill I took part in last year. Eerie and surreal.

Aside from the fact that this image of the fallen books reminds me of John Hersey's masterpiece, Hiroshima, I thought I'd use it to point out an impressive crowdsourcing project that some Palo Alto futurists have put together, code-named After Shock. Survived the earthquake? Congrats. Now how will you and your neighbors survive three weeks without electricity, water or transportation? Oh yeah, and the nearby fires are spreading.