Thursday, July 2, 2009

Why is there no video of this on YouTube yet?

Via the Associated Press:
Following a TD pass from Kerry Joseph that put Toronto ahead 6-0, [Arland] Bruce removed his helmet, shoulder pads and uniform top and laid down in the end zone. Bruce said he was honoring the memory of Michael Jackson by pretending to be buried.
His coach said he made the mistake of telling Bruce that he could do whatever he wanted once he got into the end zone.

"I think next time around he will celebrate in an appropriate manner," coach Bart Andrus told the AP.

Murdoch: Facebook is just a directory

I'm not completely convinced that Rupert Murdoch completely gets these whole "internet" and "social networking" things. Murdoch, of course, owns MySpace through his company News Corp.

And even as MySpace loses market share to Facebook, Murdoch doesn't quite get it, calling Facebook just a directory.

Speaking about the recent shakeups at MySpace:
I mean, it will be a very different social site to, say, Facebook.

Facebook is more of a directory. People go looking for their relatives or their friends, who they are going to meet. With MySpace, people go there to find common interests, share music, that sort of thing.
I disagree -- both sites are places where people go to connect with people they already know, and Facebook's design and lack of annoying flashing ads has made it much more popular over recent months.

Close up pictures of the moon

Via Bad Astronomy -- close up photos of the moon from the Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter.



Wow.

Never do a bomb threat this way

From the Albuquerque Journal:
She was allegedly calling in the bomb threats because her boyfriend Joseph Quintana had a court appearance scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday. Quintana, 29, had failed to appear in court on a traffic violation and feared he would be sentenced to jail if he went to court, according to the complaint. So he asked her to call in a bomb threat at Metropolitan Court so he wouldn't have to go.

According to the complaint, Romero initially was concerned that dispatchers would trace her number, but Quintana told her to dial star-67. That usually hides a person's phone number on caller ID - unless you're calling 911.
Ouch.

Is the Vatican investigating nuns?

An interesting story from the New York Times about some questions from the Vatican on nuns in America.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Time lapse video of volcanic explosion from space

No introduction necessary.

Was Osama bin Laden ever in America?

According to the New Yorker, yes.
Osama was here for two weeks in 1979, it seems, and he visited Indiana and Los Angeles, among other places. He had a favorable encounter with an American medical doctor; he also reportedly met in Los Angeles with his spiritual mentor of the time, the Palestinian radical Abdullah Azzam.
Another super interesting article from the New Yorker.

Obamtourage

From Landline.TV:

Gwyneth Paltrow "Disses" NYC and the USA?

The New York Daily News ran a story with the headline "Gwyneth Paltrow disses New York, U.S., people who 'always have BlackBerries on'." But it seems to be a bit of hyperbolic Drudge-bait (and it did get posted on Drudge) after reading the article.

She seems to be "dissing" a certain part of New York and American coverage. While talking about Spain, Paltrow said:
"Also, the way people live over there. They seem to enjoy life a little bit more. They aren't running around as much as in New York."
Umm... yeah.

Stupid headline for the story.

The Big Picture: Glastonbury 2009

Wow. More great pictures, this time from the 2009 Glastonbury Festival, Europe's largest open-air music festival.

Go check it out.