Month: August 2011

News

Wow. Conscientious objector shot to death in Philly.

Man tells drug dealer to not deal in front of his apartment. Drug dealer ignores man and shoots him multiple times. Meanwhile, I won’t be traveling to Philadelphia anytime soon.

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Science & Technology

Humans were sailing the Mediterranean 130,000 years ago.

Apparently early humans were much more advanced than previously thought. Archaeologists have discovered that humans were sailing the Mediterranean Sea 100,000 years earlier than previously believed. The island of Crete is the home of these early artifacts and archaeologists were able to identify the age of the objects by matching them with the island’s unique […]

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Video Games

Retro Game Master CX

  I really enjoy streaming this show on Kotaku. It is a Japanese show centered around the Kacho and his attempted conquest of some of the most difficult games of the 8bit and 16bit console eras. The first streaming episode available on Kotaku has the Kacho taking on Ninja Gaiden for the NES, which if […]

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Featured

The Bradley-Martin Ball in New York City, Gilded Age,1897 Pt. 1.

The Bradley-Martin Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City was a lavish affair that marked the pinnacle of Gilded Age social events. A socialite by the name of Cornelia Bradley-Martin, in a scheme that can only come from inhaling the ether of burning money, sought to alleviate the economic conditions of the city of […]

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News

Lumbini to be turned into Buddhist ‘Mecca.’

Before stepping down, Nepal’s Maoist government was in a development deal to turn the town of Lumbini into a Buddhist ‘Mecca’ for pilgrimage and Buddhist education. Lumbini is the purported birthplace of the Buddha in Nepal, and the closeness with which the former Maoist government under Prachanda was with China perhaps caused international relations problems […]

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Sports

Michael Vick.

Whatever you think of the man, I love a good comeback story and I’m loathe to hold someone’s feet to the fire well after one has done their penance. Michael Vick’s signing with the Eagles is discussed in this article by Les Bowen and it is an intriguing look at how the Michael Vick story […]

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News

Ex-Philly Cop stole, tried to sell 300 grams of heroin. Denied.

The prosecutor in the case says that he was motivated by pure greed. I’m sure there was some room for stupidity in there too.

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News

News of the World regularly talked about phone hacking but little about ethics.

When Andy Coulson was in charge of Newscorp’s property, News of the World, hacking phones was a regular feature. In today’s world of technology, the lengths to which journalists will go to get what they need is appalling. That said, journalists have never been held in particularly high-esteem by anyone other than other journalists so […]

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News

Two DUIs in 1 day. Get out of her way! Babay?!

A 23 year old woman in Salisbury, MD, is caught DUI twice in one day within hours of each other. After apparently being dropped off by her sober friend at 4:30 AM, who picked her up at 1:30 AM when she obtained her first awesome of the day, this poor gal was still too drunk […]

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News

Research in Motion to offer Blackberry Music Service.

RIM, in an attempt to shore up its flailing Blackberry platform, is going to offer a streaming music service integrated into their Blackberry Messenger program. According to RIM, the BBM program is one of the world’s largest mobile social networks and is the focus of retrenchment efforts focused at restoring prestige to the Blackberry brand […]

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