Jul
03
2008
Jul
03
2008
KATU: Wild police chase ends in violent crash on Interstate 205
I just got done playing GTA IV for an hour, then saw this video. Surreal. PORTLAND, Ore. - A police chase of a bank robbery suspect on Interstate 205 turned violent Thursday after the suspect’s truck veered into oncoming freeway traffic and struck three vehicles. According to Detective Jim Strovink, a Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, police began following the aqua-colored pickup about 3 p.m. after a robbery at the Sterling Savings Bank at 14638 S.E. Sunnywide Road. More and more officers joined the pursuit, and it eventually headed south on the interstate. As the truck neared the Southeast Sunnyside Road exit, an Oregon State Police car appeared to bump the truck from behind in order to make it go sideways and stop. Instead, the truck veered across the grassy median into the oncoming traffic lanes, where it sideswiped a mini van, hit a small car head-on and also hit the back end of a semi-truck’s trailer before coming to rest. Officers then surrounded the truck, and the driver got out of the vehicle on his own. He walked backward with his hands up until police took him into custody. Authorities closed all northbound lanes of I-205 following the wreck and diverted traffic around the scene. The whole incident was captured on ODOT cameras. Click the video link above to watch the raw video. More information to come. (via http://www.katu.com/news/local/22881054.html)Jul
03
2008
KATU: Wild police chase ends in violent crash on Interstate 205
I just got done playing GTA IV for an hour, then saw this video. Surreal. PORTLAND, Ore. - A police chase of a bank robbery suspect on Interstate 205 turned violent Thursday after the suspect’s truck veered into oncoming freeway traffic and struck three vehicles. According to Detective Jim Strovink, a Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, police began following the aqua-colored pickup about 3 p.m. after a robbery at the Sterling Savings Bank at 14638 S.E. Sunnywide Road. More and more officers joined the pursuit, and it eventually headed south on the interstate. As the truck neared the Southeast Sunnyside Road exit, an Oregon State Police car appeared to bump the truck from behind in order to make it go sideways and stop. Instead, the truck veered across the grassy median into the oncoming traffic lanes, where it sideswiped a mini van, hit a small car head-on and also hit the back end of a semi-truck’s trailer before coming to rest. Officers then surrounded the truck, and the driver got out of the vehicle on his own. He walked backward with his hands up until police took him into custody. Authorities closed all northbound lanes of I-205 following the wreck and diverted traffic around the scene. The whole incident was captured on ODOT cameras. Click the video link above to watch the raw video. More information to come. (via http://www.katu.com/news/local/22881054.html)Jul
03
2008
Upshoots
Upshoots, originally uploaded by William WM.Jul
03
2008
Upshoots
Upshoots, originally uploaded by William WM.Jul
03
2008
Switchabit Multitasks Your Blogging For You - Download Squad
Maintaining your online presence can be such a giant pain in the ass nowadays since your followers are looking for constant updates on three hundred different web sites. It’s especially annoying to try and publicize your new blog post manually after you’ve spent precious minutes of your morning typing and re-typing it.Thankfully, the folks at switchAbit have been gracious enough to develop a web app for us that handles cross-site posting for us. What’s not to love about an app that makes it appear as though you’re doing much more work than you actually are?
The system isn’t quite perfect, but we’re willing to let that go since they’re still technically in beta. Posts that sync from Wordpress to Blogger, for example, get cut off at the “more” tag without creating link to the source article, which makes them look as though they were posted accidentally. Easy enough to solve, just post your full article to Wordpress first, then split the post after switchAbit does it’s thing. Ba-da-bing!
Jul
03
2008
Featured Download: Dropbox Syncs and Backs Up Files Between Computers Instantaneously
Windows/Mac only: Freeware application and web service Dropbox instantaneously backs up and syncs your files over the internet and to any computer. After you install the application, it will create a Dropbox folder on your hard drive. Any file you put inside that folder will automatically be synced and monitored for changes, and each time a change is saved, it backs up and syncs the file again. Even better, Dropbox does revision history, so if you accidentally saved a file and wanted to revert to an old version or deleted a file, Dropbox can recover any previous version. See the video above for a full demonstration.
Jul
03
2008
All Things Considered, July 3, 2008 · A new style of landing called “continuous descent” involves the plane flying straight. Alex Kingsbury, a reporter with U.S. News and World Report, says delivery firm UPS has saved 50 gallons of jet fuel per landing by using the system on its planes.
Jul
03
2008
Sacha Baron Cohen Interview from a few years ago before he was famous enough to warrant never appearing out of character.
Jul
02
2008
Jul
01
2008
How to Unlock your iPhone v2 (via mokujin21)
Note: It looks like this tutorial may be old (references to v1.1.1), but could be a useful reference.
READ THIS FIRST!
This is the original tried and tested tutorial. There are others who’ve created tutorials just to get hits but as you’ll see by the comments this WORKS!
Now on version 2. I highlight how to activate your phone, youtube, wifi, and unlock your phone with TWO methods.
www.widgx.org/completeunlockpack2.rar
www.widgx.org/iphone
WARNING: Following this tutorial is at your OWN RISK! Do NOT follow it if you are not confident.
Brought to you by AMNESIA
Shout outs to,
iPhone Dev team, Nate Tru, CarlosV, DVD Jon, and Geohotz.
Jul
01
2008
BOSTON (AP) - Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers of NPR’s “Car Talk” fame, are just two low-ego lugs. That’s why - familiar self-deprecating shtick aside - the boys’ ambivalence about their new public television series rings seriously true.
“I hope that people look at it mercifully,” says the younger, stockier, talkier Ray (Clack) about “As the Wrench Turns,” a half-hour series that wraps social and environmental messages inside an animated sitcom.
Premiering 8 p.m. EDT July 9 (check local listings) on PBS, the show follows Click and Clack’s exploits co-hosting a nationally syndicated radio show and running a car repair shop that mirrors their real-life Good News Garage in Cambridge, Mass. The show will air in two-episode blocks for five weeks.
But will the humor of “As the Wrench Turns” compare to what we’ve come to expect from Tom and Ray’s hugely popular radio franchise - the most listened-to entertainment program on NPR?
“It’s lame enough that people will laugh at some of the lame stuff,” Rays says in between bites of lunch on the patio of radio station WBUR-FM in Boston, where the Magliozzis tape “Car Talk.” “There will be some chuckles and wry smiles,” he says as brother Tom (Click) looks on, cigar-smoking and chortling gently.
(via Radio’s ‘Car Talk’ guys reluctantly tackle TV | KATU.com - Portland, Oregon | Entertainment)
Jul
01
2008
A study revealed that an illegal drug psilocybin has long-term positive effects on an individual’s well-being.
Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic substance derived from certain types of mushrooms and is considered illegal, claimed to have a high potential for abuse in the United States.
The study conducted at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory began in 2002 with the first results being published in 2006.
During the experiment, 36 men and women who took the drug were monitored during an eight-hour laboratory visit and two months later. In the new study scientists followed up the volunteers a year after the experiment.
Scientists found that the volunteers taking the drug reported that their experience made them feel better even 14 months after of the study took place. Almost two-thirds of the participants of the study said that they experienced one of the five most spiritually strong feelings.
(via Scientists Find Long-term Benefits in Psychedelic Drug - Science - InfoNIAC)
Jul
01
2008
