Sony unveils 3D television
A technology currently confined to a few cinemas could be brought into living rooms next year.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Man who called 911 charged with mobile home deaths
Police have arrested a family member who called 911 on eight counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of people found in a Georgia mobile home.
Man who called 911 charged with mobile home deaths
Man who called 911 charged with mobile home deaths
Jews who escaped Nazis as kids recreate train trip
Elderly Holocaust survivors were reunited at a London railway station Friday with the man who saved them on the eve of World War II — a now 100-year-old former stockbroker who rescued hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Full Story
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Panthers fan says he was tossed out for cheering
There are some crazy, passionate football fans for every team. The Carolina Panthers have a few who dress up with blue hair and Panther claws. And there are other fans who lead the crowd in cheers. One of those fans was tossed out of Thursday night's game.
"In 1993 when the tickets went on sale, and Jerry Richardson was saying, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you,' I said, 'You're welcome,'" said Joe Nejberger.
A Panthers PSL owner since day one, he says he's "sat in the same section for 14 years now."
Nejberger even has a routine he does after every Panther touchdown.
"I put my hands out with my fingers extended as if they were claws. I say, 'How 'bout them Panthers. ... About 10 years or so ago I started adding the choreographed 'C-A-T-S. What's that spell? CATS,'" Nejberger said.
But at Thursday night's preseason game against the Pittsburg Steelers he says, "This little feller in a red shirt said I needed to sit down, and I said, 'I've been doing this for 14 years. You got to be kidding.' Next thing I know there was a posse of cops, a deputy sheriff and Charlotte police escorted me to security."
Nejberger says Panthers security never gave him a reason for booting him from the stands. He says they just told him, "You have to go or we're going to have to put you in jail."
Nejberger says he was not intoxicated at the time.
"You can't get drunk on $7 beers. No, I was not drunk at all," he said.
After calling and e-mailing the Panthers all day Friday, Nejberger got an e-mail from the stadium operations manager telling him they are investigating the incident and will need the weekend to talk to everyone involved.
Nejberger just wants an apology.
"If I feel good about the response I get from the Panthers, I will not sell my tickets or PSL. I'll consider coming back to the games," he said. "Right now my tickets are on sale. I'm disgusted."
Nejberger says he's hurt by all this and he finds it ironic that he's the one guy that gets the crowd going and cheering even when the Panthers are losing.
Hallucinating sanity in the middle ages
Hallucinations weren’t considered madness in middle ages. (neither are they considered madness among the wing nuts of today)
Hallucinations and Their Impact on Art:
What is more curious to the contemporary man is that the medieval description of insanity does not include hallucinations; and the experience of possession (passivity phenomena) is not described as occurring concurrently with or as part of a visionary state.
In Western Europe from AD 500-1500, people who heard voices or saw visions considered themselves, and were considered buy their contemporaries, to have had an actual perceptual experience of either divine or satanic inspiration. They were not considered mad and were not treated as such. Hallucinations (fantasmata) were only considered mad when combined with trickery (prestigiae).
Wing Nuts take a strong stand against … learning?!?
This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the wing nut’s usual stances on education:
If there is anybody out there who still doesn’t believe that the wing nut media will attack President Obama no matter what he does, consider this: Wing nuts are telling children to skip school as a protest against Obama’s encouragement of students to stay in school. [...]
There’s nothing you can imagine that is too crazy for these people to say. They’ll claim Barack Obama was secretly born in Kenya (his birth announcements in Hawaiian newspapers were just one part of an elaborate, decades-long conspiracy involving Kenyans, the media, Hawaii’s repugican governor, and the Stonecutters). They’ll say he has a diabolical plan to create government “death panels” to kill off the old and the young. They’ll claim he is building a secret private army (consisting of — I swear I am not making this up — AmeriCorps and Peace Corps volunteers) that is “just as strong” as the U.S. military so that he can “seize power” and create a “thugocracy.” [...]
So Glenn Beck and his fellow tinfoil hat-wearers sprang into action. Beck went off on his “indoctrination” rant, warning of secret private armies (no, he isn’t worried about Blackwater — it’s the thought of English majors signing up to help teach people how to read that keeps him up at night).
Myths of the full moon explained
With tonight's Full Moon and the weirdness this is a timely piece.
Calibrate your HDTV and save money
Calibrate your HDTV and save money
Basic adjustments on your TV's picture settings can mean using 50 percent less electricity.
Cartoon Break
Back in 1929 UB Iwerks drew for Disney. In 1937 he drew for Columbia.
From 1929 "Skeleton Dance"
From 1937 "Skeleton Frolic"
From 1929 "Skeleton Dance"
From 1937 "Skeleton Frolic"
Regulators shut down bank in Missouri
Regulators on Friday shut down First Bank of Kansas City in Missouri, pushing to 85 the number of banks that have failed this year under the weight of the soured economy and rising loan defaults.
That makes 85 US bank failures this year
That makes 85 US bank failures this year
Police have made a further arrest in connection with Britain's biggest jewelery robbery.Thirsty Florida woman accused of stealing change
A 19-year-old woman was accused of taking $7 in change from a car parked at a police station.
Thirsty Florida woman accused of stealing change
Thirsty Florida woman accused of stealing change
South Carolina Man Tries to Set Record for Grape Catching
A Midlands, South Carolina man is trying to break a somewhat bizarre world record.
Eat clean, function better
Eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, alongside lean proteins and carbohydrates, can help improve everything from body shape to libido.
Eat clean, function better
Eat clean, function better
The 100K Milestone
We reached 100,000 readers for the year just a moment ago.
It took 247 days and an average of 405 readers per day, but we did it.
Having starting out the year averaging over 600 readers a day we were hit hard by the "Summer Slump" and vacation season that is just ending.
C'est la Vivre.
It took 247 days and an average of 405 readers per day, but we did it.
Having starting out the year averaging over 600 readers a day we were hit hard by the "Summer Slump" and vacation season that is just ending.
C'est la Vivre.
School library goes bookless
School library goes bookless
A 144-year-old prep school discards its "outdated" 20,000-book collection.
Just a little case of profiling
The drug warriors at the US Forest Service want campers to be alert for other campers who might "eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music because they could be armed marijuana growers".
Palin Resignation Costs Alaska At Least $40K
In typical repugican fashion ...
Waste, all they do is waste, anything and everything.
Early estimates put the cost of Sarah Palin's midterm resignation as Alaska governor at a minimum of $40,000, not including a special legislative session partly linked to her departure.
Palin Resignation Costs Alaska At Least $40K
Waste, all they do is waste, anything and everything.
Early estimates put the cost of Sarah Palin's midterm resignation as Alaska governor at a minimum of $40,000, not including a special legislative session partly linked to her departure.
Palin Resignation Costs Alaska At Least $40K
Get on board, or get out of the way
The following letter was sent to U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, the repugican senator from Iowa.
Health care reform WILL pass regardless of whatever the shrill wing nut shills scream and their mindless drones march in lock-step to.
Dear Sen. Grassley: Stop with these “pull the plug on grandma” statements and the “death panel” remarks concerning health care reform with the public option. The majority of Americans want this in the bill and will remember your comments and lies on this subject.
Union leaders have spoken about the Republican leaders’ comments, the busing of radical people to town meetings, some with guns, and the fear your people are creating for old people.
You will be remembered during your next election for these acts. Can’t your Republicans and blue-dog Democrats have truthful debates about health care reform?
Stop lying to the very people who elected you. This is totally out of hand, and now we hear comparisons of this to Germany under Hitler. Enough is enough. Your job is to represent and support American people; like it says, “We the people ... for the people.” What happened to that?
Ask the seniors on government-run Medicare. Ask the veterans on government-run vets insurance if they want to give it up. And ask your fellow senators if they want to give up their government-run health care.
Get on board with health care reform with the public option, or get out of the way.
*****
Health care reform WILL pass regardless of whatever the shrill wing nut shills scream and their mindless drones march in lock-step to.
US kidnapping case has police checking other unsolved murders, child abductions
Police are scouring old records of major unsolved cases in northern Nevada to determine if any match the profile of the man charged in the abduction and assault of a Lake Tahoe girl 18 years ago.
US kidnapping case has police checking other unsolved murders, child abductions
US kidnapping case has police checking other unsolved murders, child abductions
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