Boomshine!
Boomshine is a terrific little mouse-click game where you try to create the largest possible chain-reaction in a chaotic environment.
A History of Coney Island - by Professor Solomon, a free 152-page PDF book.
If you want a shock go to google maps and take a close look at New Orleans. Go down to the closest magnification and scroll around the areas that were flooded. Blue tarps on roofs, and hundreds of white FEMA trailers. There is so much devastation still evident there. Scrolling around the downtown area, even if the shots were taken on a Sunday, there is so little traffic, so few cars parked on city streets... It's a bit like a ghost town.