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Monthly Archives: September 2007
A real good reason to finish school
September 8, 2007 – 7:00 am
Please stay in school!
A street near Northwood Elementary in Kalamazoo, Mich., has the word’school’ misspelled on the pavement. Crews were expected to correct themistake Thursday. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette, Jill McLane Baker)
[Thanks, SeattlePI]
Noriega looks to be Paris bound
September 7, 2007 – 2:17 pm
A US federal judge has lifted a stay on the extradition of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega. In 1989 the US invaded the Central American country and arrested then dictator Manuel Noriega as a prisoner of war and took him to Miami. He was convicted in 1992 under federal charges of cocaine trafficking, [...]
Fears Held for Fossett
September 7, 2007 – 1:47 pm
It has been five days now since Steve Fossett departed the airstrip at the Lazy M Ranch in Northwestern Nevada and headed southeast to scout sites for a planned attempt to break the world land speed record. In these past days there has only been a glimmer of hope once, when a wrecked aircraft [...]
A Wrinkle in Time author, Madeleine L’Engle, Dead at 88
September 7, 2007 – 1:29 pm
"It was a dark and stormy night……."
Madeleine L’Engle, beloved young adult author of A Wrinkle in Time, died yesterday at her home in Connecticut. Her death was announce this morning by her publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She has written more than 60 books, but her series, “Time Fantasy”, is her best known [...]
Luciano Pavarotti, Dead at 71
September 6, 2007 – 2:44 pm
This morning, in his home in Modena Italy, Luciano Pavarotti passed away. Considered by many to have been the greatest living contemporary tenor, Pavarotti succumbed after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Rest in Peace.
Reverse Graffiti by Alexandre Orion
September 5, 2007 – 3:01 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwsBBIIXT0E
Simply amazing work of art where Alexandre has taken clean rags and removed the grit and grime from a long wall of grates in a tunnel. The results appear to offend someone and the grating gets fully cleaned.
No Transmission From Fossett’s Breitling Emergency
September 5, 2007 – 1:32 pm
Steve Fossett normally wears a Breitling Emergency watch. Incorporating a 121.5 MHz transmitter, the $4000.00 watch is capable of transmitting an emergency radio beacon for 48 hours. All that Steve would need to do is unscrew a small cap and pull out the antenna and the watch will automatically start to transmit.
It is [...]
Fossett search resumes this morning
September 5, 2007 – 7:23 am
Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett is still among the missing as the concentrated search picks up again this morning. With more than 13 aircraft expected to take part in today’s search efforts, the weather is probably the largest concern of the day.
Yesterday winds gusted to 65 mph and down-drafts were reported that caused one searchers [...]
James Stephen “Steve” Fossett, the Aviator Millionaire, Missing
September 4, 2007 – 1:36 pm
James Stephen Fossett, better known as Steve, has been missing since yesterday morning. After taking off from William Baron Hilton’s Flying M Ranch at approximately 9 a.m. Monday morning he was last seen headed south in a single-engine Citabria Super Decathlon.
Civil Air Patrol Cessna’s and helicopters from the Nevada National Guard, the [...]
First Female Beefeater Starts Tower Duties
September 4, 2007 – 4:52 am
The Yeoman Warders of Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, otherwise known as the Beefeaters, are the tour guide/ceremonial guards of the Tower of London. In theory they are responsible for guarding any prisoners at the Tower and safeguarding the Crown Jewels.
Moira Cameron
Today marks the first day that a [...]
Karl Rove Leaves, Takes E-Mail
September 3, 2007 – 8:43 am
Rep. Henry Waxman of California, head Poo-Bah of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, seems to think that as many as 5 MILLION White House e-mails from March of 2003 through October 2005 are ’missing’. 5 MILLION e-mails, missing.
It is kind of hard to wrap my head around that fact. How [...]
Helicopters Celebrate 100th Birthday
September 3, 2007 – 8:10 am
C|Net has apparently decided that this year marks the 100th birthday of the helicopter. Siting helicopter designs by Maurice Leger, Jacques and Louis Breguet, and Paul Cornu, all of which got off the ground in 1907 for just a very fewseconds.
The article is very interesting. It gives a brief overview of the development of the [...]
3 Early 80s Albums That Are MUCH Better Than You Remember
September 2, 2007 – 10:25 am
Working Class Dog by Rick Springfield
The Crossing by Big Country
Colour by Numbers by Culture Club
Command & Conquer 12th Anniversary
September 1, 2007 – 7:54 am
Yesterday, August 31, marked the 12th anniversary of the computer game Command & Conquer.
In celebration of the event, the original Command & Conquer Gold 2-CD game is being released for free through the GameSpy website. It is downloadable as two ISO files, one for the GDI disk and one for the Nod disk. You will [...]