A rich vein of city records from Sept. 11, including more than 12,000 pages of oral histories rendered in the voices of 503 firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians, were made public on Aug. 12. The New York Times has published all of them.
Oral Histories From 9/11
A rich vein of city records from Sept. 11, including more than 12,000 pages of oral histories rendered in the voices of 503 firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians, were made public on Aug. 12. The New York Times has published all of them.
Dead Man Eating Weblog
A blog dedicated to documenting the last meal of executed convicts.
GARY LYNN STERLING
August 10, 2005
Last Meal: Sterling requested a chicken fried steak, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, French fries, pecan pie, sweet tea and a vanilla milkshake.
The skinny: Sterling, former farm worker from Central Texas was executed for using a car bumper jack to fatally beat and rob a man during a violent spree 17 years ago that also left three other people dead.
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Plane Being Struck By Lightning
Cool but scary animated gif.
Extreme Quarter Bouncing
The result of a person having way too much time. (embedded vid)
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Catsup Crapper
A finalist in MIT’s unuseless contest. Be sure to check out the video.
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Topless Women Protest Sexual Harrassment
From News24.com (with pic, NSFW)
The women, who work for a cleaning and laundry business in Rosslyn that does work for, among others, state hospitals, sent their tops flying in protest against sexual harassment at their place of work and their conditions of service.
The pic in the story looks like she went from being sexually harrassed to being sexually assaulted.
Map of Indian Tribes
An ugly but informative (would it have killed them to draw in Canada and Mexico?) map of Native American tribes.
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