* Disaster strikes Japan. Google releases People Finder app if you’re looking for someone who may be missing. Tsunami arrival times for the West Coast. Bank of Japan pledges liquidity and says that its settlement system is working.
* Stacey Higginbotham: Have startups become a fetish?
* Keeping track: Who’s who in the Raj insider trading saga
* Speaking of which… a third McKinsey connection has now emerged
* Morning Call: U.S. futures fall, London opens soft and European shares keep sliding.
* KKR (kinda sorta) endorses ILPA guidelines
* Mary Hamilton: Facebook is a simulation game
* Steve Blank: A new way to teach entrepreneurship
* First of 50 battles: Amazon (AMZN) ditches Illinois affiliates to avoid web tax
* Dave Weigel: Why do conservatives hate trains so much? Megan McArdle chimes in.
* Moody’s: Just because cov-light loans worked out okay last time, don’t think they aren’t a problem