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Dumbest salvo yet in the war on terror, courtesy of the London police
August 30, 2008 8:39am
Klingon knife scares the crap out of dumb British scandal-sheet
August 24, 2008 2:12pm
If that's a "dangerous weapon" why has nothing like it ever been used as a weapon, in all of recorded history?
Sasquatch sighting in Northern Ontario
July 29, 2008 5:12am
These women must have just seen a bear. Mainly because there's no such thing as Sasquatch. Also, bears can look pretty weird and human-like, if they're starving and skinny but especially if they're soaking wet.
On a canoe trip in NW Ontario I took a photo of a bear that had been swimming across the lake we were paddling on, just as it climbed out on the shore. In the photo, it's standing up and scrawny and humanoid with its thick fur matted down: like a Sasquatch, as we even remarked at the time.
video: surreal bird formation
July 15, 2008 5:01am
#16: Thanks Derek, I'd be happy to. How would I go about that? You could contact me via this username over on Metafilter.
video: surreal bird formation
July 14, 2008 2:28pm
I took a video of them at Eastbourne pier a few years ago:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kFaypkwEXh4
More on found feet
July 12, 2008 10:12am
I worked for a summer building houses on a Chilcotin native reserve deep in interior B.C. That August one of the guys I was working with was dip-net fishing (a traditional Chilcotin technique) on the Fraser River. He slipped and fell in, and disappeared immediately in the strong, turbid current; his body was never found.
While that was back in 2000 and so it's unlikely that any of these feet are his, I think it is likely, since all of the findings have been around the Fraser Delta, that that is their origin: people who, either through accident or malice, were swept out by the deep and frighteningly powerful Fraser River.
Office worker flips out (security video)
June 4, 2008 2:38pm
Also, why are all the blinds drawn in the middle of the day?
Office worker flips out (security video)
June 4, 2008 1:37pm
I bought it when I first saw it on Metafilter, but on second viewing: definitely fake.
The whole setup from the beginning looks staged - too many people milling around, 2 guys actually studying a chart on one wall, that big pie chart.
Unplugged monitors, which seem suspiciously light (especially the way he can so easily kick around the grey one at the end), and people's general actions and reactions does suggest that this is setup. Maybe not a viral, maybe just some sort of drama exercise, but I'm 99% sure it's not real.
Also, I'm sure, given the exposure this video has had, there would be some sort of backstory to this. I mean somebody who was there would have blogged about it, or there would be some sort of eye-witness account.
The scandalous origins of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours
May 27, 2008 1:09pm
Wow. I loooove this movie, it's definitely in my top 10. It's fantastical, but in the way that life is sometimes fantastical; I've certainly had nights that seemed After Hoursesque.
But while that blog seems to peg the plagiarism solely on the screenwriter (who was a young student at Columbia, and as such it's not surprising that he might have done so), so much besides the mere words seem to have been transferred directly from that monologe to the film. The music, for example, which sounds exactly like the low-key, melancholy-spooky theme which carries right the way through After Hours in just the same way. Seems like somebody with more creative control over the film was involved in the plagiarism rather than merely the 25 year old whose script got optioned.
EFF forces Lockheed to withdraw trademark claim on B-24 bomber
May 22, 2008 9:47am
What made this all the more difficult for EFF is that Dick Cheney has trademarked the word 'Liberator'.
British Telecom -- like sticking your head in a blender, but less fun
November 2, 2007 3:57pm
Well, I got a BT line put in at my new flat in Elephant & Castle last week. Since it'd been cut off last year apparently an engineer had to come and reconnect it at a cost of 125 pounds. I'd asked BT that they call me a half hour before they showed up, so I had time to leave my office and get home to let him in to do his thing. But, he called when he was right outside. Regardless, he hung around and I cycled home; I got there in 20 minutes and he did his thing, and now I have a phone line and 4 days later an extremely fast BE broadband line.
So, I wouldn't say BT is all bad. In fact, in my 4 years living here, in 3 different flats, I haven't had a bad experience with them or their work standards, compared to what I was used to in Canada.
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Ha! I'll bet you took that photo at my local Tesco, across from Islington Green. It's been up there for months. The thing is, the police here are so overstretched already - 2 times I've had to call them - once when I witnessed my neighbour's house getting burglarised, and again when a mob was harassing people on Regent's Canal - they've arrived far, far too late to be of any help.
If the police are seriously going to commit resources to following up such useless tips as this poster would generate, it'll mean diverting them away from where they actually can do some good.