Monday, July 11, 2011
Feeling Safer Now?
Yahoo! News: "Authorities are trying to determine how a stun gun got aboard a JetBlue plane that landed at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport.
The crew was cleaning up after the 10:20 p.m. flight arrived from Boston on Friday and found the stun gun tucked into the back of a seat."
The crew was cleaning up after the 10:20 p.m. flight arrived from Boston on Friday and found the stun gun tucked into the back of a seat."
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Martin Woodhouse, R. I. P.
The Guardian: "Martin Woodhouse, who has died aged 78, had what he called 'a grasshopper mind' which led him to leap from one interest to another. Trained as a doctor, he qualified but was not registered and never practised; instead, he began exploring the concept of artificial intelligence and created a logic machine at Cambridge. Another change in direction followed his service with the RAF, when he became a television screenwriter, penning episodes of the puppet show Supercar and The Avengers, among others."
I missed this earlier. I remember Tree Frog fondly.
Link via Thrilling Days of Yesteryear.
THE BIG THRILL:
THE BIG THRILL:: "During a gala banquet and celebration held on Saturday, July 9 at the Grand Hyatt in New York City, the International Thriller Writers announced the winners of the 2011 Thriller Awards."
Winners at the link. Congrats to all.
Once Again, Texas Leads the Way
Houston Chronicle: "The Houston Independent School District's procurement manager was soliciting a mail-order bride for a co-worker and committing another office prank while old inventory was piling up under his watch, according to HISD documents."
Just Normal All-American Kids
OrlandoSentinel.com: "The second boy offered to bring a 'torture kit' that he said he kept in the trunk of his car, deputies said. A search of the trunk revealed an ax, surgical cutting tools, a torch lighter, rope and scissors, a report states."
Archaeology Update
Incisor raiding: Viking marauders had patterns filed into their teeth | Science | guardian.co.uk: "The fashion for dental bling goes back 1,000 years, according to a new discovery by archaeologists. Long before contemporary trends for gold dental caps or teeth inlaid with diamonds became popular, young Viking warriors were having patterns filed into their teeth.
If their intention was to intimidate the enemy, they failed: the evidence has come from front teeth from a pit full of decapitated skeletons, found during roadworks in Dorset and now believed to be victims of a massacre of Viking invaders by local Britons."
If their intention was to intimidate the enemy, they failed: the evidence has come from front teeth from a pit full of decapitated skeletons, found during roadworks in Dorset and now believed to be victims of a massacre of Viking invaders by local Britons."
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