The Canterbury Earthquake: Images of the distorted railway line

The Canterbury Earthquake: Images of the distorted railway line

Note how the rails show high levels of deformation whilst the surrounding ground shows comparatively little. Notice also how the big kink on the left side has pushed the ballast aside and into the track side ditch This has happened on the right side too, but to a lesser extent. The right side bend nearest the camera has pushed the ballast towards the camera — via AGU blogosphere

Master and Customize Column Widths in OS X Finder

Snow Leopard’s Column view is often the smarter way to look at your files, but having to drag around your columns constantly to see long file names is a pain. Macworld offers a handy, tucked-away option for fixing Finder’s widths. Double-clicking on the handle at the bottom right of a column will quickly resize the column to fit the widest file name. Holding Option while dragging a column width sets that custom width for every future Finder window. But you can fix all your columns at once with a right-click — via lifehacker