Friday Links: The disaster in Japan & some things to take your mind off of it

• The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Seismic Monitor. Earth is an unstable place. The Atlantic’s In Focus blog has photos of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. In the wake of the disaster Google created a people-finder app.
• Related to the last, Doc Searls on how disasters like the Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami make TV news as passe and out of date as newspapers.
• Rovio, makes of Angry Birds secures $42 million in venture capital to turn the game into a Disneyesque empire.
• How playing games can help change the world.
• Nerd bikes
• People started lining up at the Mall of America’s Apple Store six hours before the official release of the iPad2.
• Tracking the astounding pace of digital storage.
• Word puzzle wrapping paper for all your gift giving needs.