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an awful something happened today in Bristol. The original studio home of Wallace & Gromit were destroyed by fire included in the blaze were original storyboards and sets as well as many historical artefacts. quite fortunately this horrible loss will not have any impact on the production of their presently in-progress feature film ‘The Curse of the Were-rabbit’ (wandg.com)

Wallace and Gromit’s creator, Nick Park, said the earthquake in South Asia helped put the loss into perspective.

“Even though it is a precious and nostalgic collection and valuable to the company, in light of other tragedies, today isn’t a big deal,” he said.

as mr park mentioned, the fire is far from the worst of today’s tragedy .. death tolls in south asia are now at least ten times that of katrina; more than 4 million are likely without shelter, if not more … saw some footage of relief workers (specifically britons who had just flown in today) these people are amazing, they are heros; we are all hardly equivalent to the filthiest of new orlean’s toxic scum in comparison. we shouldn’t be able to go on with our everyday lives when such loss is happenning elsewhere. but wasteful bureaucracy (more so in a time of crisis than any other) is worse than the aforementioned scum, cause for the unnecessary dilution of good will. also, most of the american media is nearly as evil.
makes a good a case for distributed journalism made possible by blogs, altho i’d say that the bbc is way ahead of blogsnow or technorati, this might not be true twenty years from now.