Scripting News: What to do?

Three 3.5+ magnitude earthquakes in Berkeley in the last 3 days. We got a light rattling here, but Dave Winer’s on-the-spot description is a lot more evocative: “felt like a truck hitting the house […] quick but loud.” (But at the risk of sounding callous: if you hate quakes so much, why buy a house so close to the Hayward Fault?)