Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was so close to death after being shot multiple times by authorities that he had to have immediate life-saving surgery.
Documents show he repeatedly asked for a lawyer.. also indications from the defense team—which wants the bedside confession thrown out—that questioning went on for 36 hours and Tsarvaev was drugged after his arrival to the hospital..
Wow… FROZEN would make a pretty scary film.
People in St. Louis want to know whose drone was flying over buildings in the city and why did it crash into one of them..
There’s no drone specific laws in Missouri right now.. Officials better get working on some though . Drones ate relatively inexpensive and anyone can get one.
The future is now.
Man demands the right to wed his computer..
Something told me this was going to happen.
It somehow makes sense.. the future is filled with transhumanism.. it’s filled with the marriage of the mind and the machine.
And it was just a matter of time before someone initiated the claim that humans have the right to marry machines. In the short term, the man’s porn-laden tablet may not have the ability to survive a lifetime.
But perhaps in the future, when we marry our machines, we will be interlocked for good with technology.. your hand will be your phone and Google will be your brain.
Videos showing comedy as horror are amazingly well put together on YouTube.. this one caught my eye today.. Imagine FULL HOUSE as a horror flick? Bob Saget has never looked more frightening.. Good fake preview, unnamed internet person who will never get the credit you deserve. Good show.
“Space Fence” will track more of the orbiting junk that threatens satellites, but some want the focus on cleanup.
Have a company that is willing and ready to fence off space debris from hitting the planet? Here’s your chance.. The Air Force is set to award a contract that will actually give money to a company that does just that: Create a ‘space fence’ to track orbital debris and life-changing manmade chunks of junk..
The WASHINGTON POST reports:
Because it zips along faster than a speeding bullet, the trash poses an ever-growing threat to the satellites that help the military communicate and gather intelligence and serve the world’s obsession with Google Earth and on-demand movies. Until last year, the Pentagon used what was called a “Space Fence” to track the junk and warn of potential collisions that make owners scramble to move their satellites out of the way.
But that system managed to keep up with only a fraction of it all, and it went out of commission last year. Now the Air Force is poised to take a more modern crack at the problem with a new Space Fence.
With a contract expected to be awarded in the next few weeks, the program is designed to be mankind’s best effort yet at tracking space pollution. But the new Space Fence still doesn’t provide what many think is the ultimate solution: cleaning up space.
It’s about time.
As a matter of fact, we should not just stop at space junk.. what about the pink stars as they are falling? Catch them before they do. We should, as a society, be far enough advanced that we are already in place with something that catches more asteroids before they come within a moon’s length—or closer—to the planet earth. We should not be caught off guard a day before a meteor may hit.. We have focused too much on earthly nonsense and pointless hate.. By now the world should have come together with immediate goals: To save ourselves from space, or at least give us a little more time for extra hugs and a last meal..
So the space fence is good. Hopefully it’s a high enough fence that not even Wilson can get through..
Organisms carrying beefed-up DNA code could be designed to churn out new forms of drugs that could otherwise not be made
This would seem to be one of the most important science stories to come in a long, long time.. a turning point, perhaps? Artificial DNA.. artificial life.. Apparently, announced with this discovery, scientists have created an entirely new lifeform!
The marriage of the synthetic with the real.. Which one will be real?
Nigeria defended its response to the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls by a terror group even as details emerged Tuesday about a second mass abduction.
The newest mass abduction the nation is seeing occurred Sunday when, according to reports, gunmen moved door to door snatching girls and beating anyone who attempted to stop them.
Nigeria’s government is downplaying criticism.. They are also being accused of downplaying the original abductions. A social media campaign brought attention to the matter and the little action that was initially taken to do anything about the crimes..
A terrorist video released threatened to sell the now 300+ girls ‘on the market.’
The story is unfolding..
And it’s only just begun..
Chances are you have yet to hear about the Youtube Channel where a user named “Webdriver Torso” has been busy uploading videos—77,000+ of them to be exact. Each video is an 11-second video of red and blue rectangles along with weird tones..
A new modern Youtube version of a numbers station?
A contact to aliens?
A coded message perhaps for an upcoming movie?
Maybe French spies?
The story has been pretty big in the UK--some suspect that the origin of the weird YOUTUBE account is from France, being that one video was of the Eiffel Tower.
The mystery began in September 2013 when videos being being posted.. hundreds a day in some instances. All 11 seconds.
The BBC discovered a potential French connection to the mystery a few days ago, writing:
The very first video uploaded to the channel, over a month before the first rectangle classic, reveals a completely different side to Webdriver.
Locked behind a 1.99 euro ($2.76; £1.63) paywall and only accessible if you’re in France, is a clip from the cartoon series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, in which the show’s three anthropomorphic fast-food items - Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake - fail to win a pub quiz.
The second anomalous clip only raises more questions.
In video 1,182 we have what could be our first sighting of Webdriver.
Filmed from a Parisian balcony, the six-second clip shows an Eiffel Tower lightshow followed by a fleeting glimpse of a face.
Below the video, Webdriver has left a comment, their only known communication with the world: “Matei is highly intelligent.”
BOING BOING wondered if this is the modern version of a creepy numbers station.. It actually makes sense. Even spies have APPs now..
The Webdriver Torso account also has some thinking it’s apart of that other weird internet mystery: Cicada 3301—the 2014 net mystery began four months ago with a ‘good luck 3301’ message.
But the bubble of mystery is being burst by the UK GUARDIAN, which claims a bit of a more mundane argument as to what Webdriver Torso’s channel is. The paper writes this:
Isaul Vargas, a New York-based software tester, spotted the videos in a post on BoingBoing and recognised them from an automation conference he had been at a year ago. They were being shown by a European firm that made streaming software for set-top boxes, the kit that sits under a TV and connects to services such as Sky or Netflix.
But the GUARDIAN also had this postscript on their mundane attribution:
But there’s another twist. Isaul has tracked down the presentation he saw, which was given by the British company YouView. While it features similar videos, it is not identical: so although the general principle of using WebDriver, YouTube and automatic image recognition to test software stands, the culprit has slipped off into the night.
When one door closes, another opens. A thousand videos into the series is one six-second clip that breaks the mould. A short video of the Eiffel Tower, it features a comment from the uploader: “Matei is highly intelligent.” Already, readers have been hard at work trying to find someone who fits the bill, but it’s tricky. Matei is a common Romanian name, and even assuming that Matei is the uploader, is based in France, and has a public profile, there are at least two possibilities: Basarab Matei, who works on image recognition at the University of Paris North (suggested by @DAddYE), and Matei Mancas, who works on attention modelling at the University of Mons in Belgium (suggested by @marquis)
So that’s that for now.
You can join the thousands of people commenting on the Webdriver Torso videos…you can be like them and try to unravel the mystery. Or you can safely adjust your tin foil hat and wait for the aliens to beam back their response to the video.
Or just watch the pictures as they FTP through the air.. from France, or some other undisclosed location for reasons of security and therefore insecurity.
It ain’t easy being Barry O.
He seems sad lately.. the hope is gone. The change dried up..
Replacing it, according to David Remnick, is a disappointment with the world. He’s upset with the Republicans, and more.. as Remnick says, “Bashar al-Assad disappoints him, Putin as well.”
Nothing about himself, though. That department is fine.
It’s just ‘me against the world’..
I am quite literally emotionally drained after weeping through this video of “Connor the Crusher” being cheered on by professional wrestlers from the WWE..
Connor died of brain cancer after his amazing day at Wrestlemania.. The WWE put up a tribute video for the little amazing old soul who is not longer with the planet earth.
William Shatner is cool. Not only is he the face of Michael Myers but he’s also writing a novel about aliens abductions.
In this interview snippet from Larry King and Shatner, he explains why he is writing it, and what he believes about UFOs.
Shatner uses the story of John E. Mack (and his unfortunate early death) as a means to inspire deeper thought about aliens—why don’t they display and what would their intention be to abduct? For those who may not know, John Mack was a Harvard professor involved with interview 62 children from a school house in Africa that claimed they all saw aliens with long hair—aliens who warned them that the planet was in environmental danger.. This 1994 event was called the Encounter in Ruwa. Mack was also a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM when Art Bell hosted.. Like Shatner, I have always been extremely interested in Mack—but particularly in his conclusion that alien life was real, abductions were real, and that UFOs were from another reality..
I love Shatner.
Who doesn’t?
And finally, it’s good to see Larry King on HULU. Makes me feel like it’s the 1990s again.
The image you are looking at was taken by the AP of a person in Brazil suffering from xeroderma pigmentosum, or “XP.” It’s a condition in which, for better or worse as a description, people ‘melt away’ ..
The rare disease stops the skin from being able to heal itself from the sun’s rays.
The AP has more on relatively high amount of people in one village that are suffering from this..
It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress
Monica Lewisnky, in an exclusive VANITY FAIR story..
She expressed regret in the article concerning her affair with Bill Clinton.
She experienced job rejections because of her famed ‘job’ with Bubba..
And she expressed tears when she heard of a 2010 suicide of Tyler Clementi..
She blamed Matt Drudge and the Drudge Report for being “possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet.”
She said the public humiliation she experienced altered her life. I am sure Linda Tripp agreed.
Pretty amazing redo of Giorgio Moroder’s THE CHASE by a band called Kings Love Jacks.
It’s like Art Bell and George Noory on ecstasy near the end. Or the soundtrack to a real alien anal probe.
