Hurricane Gustav hits Haiti, takes aim at U.S. Gulf Coast
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Update: Hurricane Gustav hit southern Haiti today, threatening to become an "extremely dangerous" storm as it heads toward Cuba and takes aim at states along the U.S. Gulf Coast. See Hurricane Gustav computer models at Weather Underground.
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With current maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, Gustav could develop into a Category 2 hurricane later today and a “major” Category 3 or 4 storm by the end of the week, according to AccuWeather forecasters. (View the projected path of Hurricane Gustav from the National Weather Service.)
Forecasters warned Gustav's eye could pass near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, home to nearly 3 million people.
To avoid the storm, Carnival Cruise Lines diverted one of its ships today to a Mexican port instead of Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Crude oil prices rose today as Hurricane Gustav threatened major oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico, home to more than a fifth of U.S. oil production.
Image: National Weather Service
— Brady MacDonald, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Arrington vs. Cashmore: Tech titans clash in Hollywood
(Photo by Robert Scoble)
Last night at the Vanguard night club in Hollywood, there was yet another sign that the Silicon Valley tech scene is taking on Tinsel Town attributes (read: ego, expensive 2,000-person parties DJ'd by Perry Farrell, internecine territory squabbles and--crucially--more and more celebs caught on video).
Blog czar Michael Arrington (above) of the popular technology blog TechCrunch was accused by detractors of ejecting unwanted company from his exclusive Hollywood Boulevard shindig (co-thrown by PopSugar). The outcasts were, specifically, Mashable.com's Pete Cashmore, a young pretender to the tech blogging throne, and the crew from Valleywag, the tech scene's online tabloid.
