This might be my favorite yet. Kris submitted today’s Starbucks Cup alter ego.

There’s so much reporting about trying to get seawater on to the nuclear reactor in Japan, but it’s been tough to understand exactly what’s happening inside those buildings. The New York Times does a brilliant job explaining just that in a series of interactive graphics.

Victoria submitted today’s Starbucks Cup alter ego.

Ian submitted today’s Starbucks Cup alter ego.

In this age of worry about carbon footprints, the cold weather practice of “warming up” the car seems naughty. I spotted an article in Toronto’s Globe and Mail on the weekend that tries to answer the question “Should you warm up your car first, or start it and go?”

It’s taken a couple of days for some of these video clips from Japan to make their way onto television and the internet. This clip shows the tsunami slamming into the seawall in Miyako City, Japan.

I tweeted a link to this video yesterday when I saw a link while checking Twitter on my phone. It’s so scary and powerful that I wanted to post it here too. The clip is extraordinary because it’s long and well shot, so you get a true sense of the strength that was behind that water as it kept rising and rising.

Dawn submitted today’s Starbucks Cup alter ego.

Bernadette submitted today’s Starbucks Cup alter ego.