No matter how you feel about tonight's health care vote, it's better than a huge volcano enveloping our nation. This might happen to Iceland, where an eruption is threatening to trigger even bigger blasts. Related: this John McPhee book. [AP]

Are cruise ships still the Most Dangerous Place on Earth? You better believe it.

And here I was going to end that headline with "...God Annoyed," but Jersey Shore is a gifts upon this universe. Admit it, you're glad nothing happened to them last night. The world is filled with enough awfulness as is.

So, maybe you heard that Chile is slightly shaken up as of this morning. An 8.8 earthquake some are noting as "100 times more powerful" than Haiti's hit this morning. Damage and deaths are still being assessed. Meanwhile, in Hawaii:

A 7.0 earthquake has hit Japan's Ryukyu Islands, 50 miles off the coast of Okinawa.

Facebook, the social network that conned users out of their privacy in its last redesign, nearly topped itself last night, misdirecting hundreds of private messages. Including sending an "explicit chat" to a newspaper reporter. Even by Facebook standards, that's bad.

Earthquakes to destroy your city! Escaping ants invade! Planets ripped apart! It's not science fiction, it's just your daily science watch, where we watch the science—the real science, only!

A Radio Shack on Sixth Avenue and 19th St. in Manhattan has been totally destroyed after a manhole explosion at about 11:30 reportedly "sparked a transformer fire." Looks seriously apocalyptic. Daily Intel got this amazing photo; aftermath photos below.

A 28 year-old Haitian man named Edward Muncie was pulled from the rubble yesterday after being trapped for four weeks(!). May we just say "god damn?" In less uplifting news, the earthquake's death toll is now 230,000.

I guess several yoga mats could be combined into some sort of...nah, no idea. We've contacted the yoga studio for comment. Donate now, you selfish bastard. [via James Fallows] UPDATE: A nice lady from the yoga studio explains, below.

Michael "Brownie" Brown likes the Colts on Sunday.

With great power comes great responsibility. But AOL's media borg Seed.com can't stop its horde of desperate underemployed journalists from mobbing story subjects, like the angry woman who heard from seven Seed writers in six days. Frightening.

Ignoring plenty of reporting here about quackery and profiteering, the Today Show ran an absolute blowjob today on Scientologists in Haiti. They're "often doing the work no one else wants to do." Like recruiting new Scientologists? Ugh. Full clip below.

Fast Company is reporting, in a reed-thin update to their obit for Miramax, that the Weinstein Co. is laying off 30 people today. We're trying to confirm, but people familiar with the firm say insiders were bracing for another round.

A teenage Haitian girl who was in the shower when her house collapsed was rescued alive yesterday, 15 days after the earthquake. "[She] mumbled something about having a little Coca-Cola with her in the rubble." Sign her up, Coke. [AP]

The Haiti earthquake: Sad, right? Especially for the media—our heroes on the front line, right there in dirty Haiti. Now, the media must start coming home, as heroes. Most are leaving gradually; one network's leaving fast as hell.

John Edwards decided to follow up his admission of what everyone already knew by going to Haiti to participate in relief efforts. Coincidentally, cameras followed him!

The streets of Port-au-Prince contained scenes of commerce and activity Tuesday morning, instead of just devastation and death. Merchants sold fruits and vegetables amid the rubble of destroyed businesses. More cars were winding through the debris-strewn streets.

Ugh, what happened to Luke Renner, the fameballing American expat in Haiti? Pre-Earthquake, he was running a small collection of nonprofits. Now he's gleefully converting tragedy into Twitter fame.

America's message to Haitians, blared from an airplane: "If you think you will reach the U.S. and all the doors will be wide open to you, that's not at all the case." Y'all can fight over MREs at home. [NYT]