This is a brutal story, poor dude. It is not reasonable to follow your GPS onto train tracks!
We've seen some pretty extreme cases of excessive faith in GPS, but this may well be the first instance of the ill-advised practice nearly exactly repeating itself. As you may recall, earlier this year a Bedford Hills, New York man trusted his GPS so much that he apparently thought it was perfectly reasonable to follow the directions directly onto a set of train tracks. That didn't exactly work out so well, for his car or the oncoming train. Now, as The Journal News reports, another man followed his GPS onto the very same set of tracks last night and, while he did get out in time to make a surely embarrasing 911 call, that apparently wasn't enough to prevent a commuter train from slamming into the car a few minutes later, causing an hour and a half delay but, thankfully, no injuries. Maybe it's time for some signs?
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Trust in your GPS?
Celebrate halloween early?
A Cincinnati woman went out and did it up right by celebrating Halloween early this year.
Police say 32 year old Michelle Allen was chasing children in the 3100 block of Wilbraham, while wearing the cow costume early Monday evening. Allen also reported urinated on a neighbor's front porch. An officer told Allen to go home and stay there for the remainder of the evening. Police were later called to North Verity Avenue, where Allen was allegedly blocking traffic. The arresting officer says Allen smelled of alcohol, slurred her speech, and was belligerent. She also alleged cussed at the officer.
Geekologie
Pushing buttons - Shadow, Cut chemist and Numark
OBG.. I heard this a while ago, but never seen the video until now.
Take a look at some retro drum machines.
RETRODRUMS
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
MiniTube - Plays Music vids of your tunes.
Pretty neat.. it will simultaneously play your video. Gotta love it..
LINK - LIFEHACKER
Canada - Do Not Call list opened, Servers down.
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Website, phone lines for do-not-call list overwhelmed
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | 10:31 AM ET Comments99Recommend100
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So many people are trying to register their phone numbers on the federal do-not-call list, the website has crashed and the phone lines have a constant busy tone.
Commenters to CBCNews.ca expressed frustration at not being able to get through, but not all of them were surprised at the breakdown.
"It appears the do-not-call registry site was so popular it brought down their server. I am getting … page cannot be displayed errors," wrote Alienc, of Riverview, N.B.
"Great idea but [too] bad the DNC registry website is unavailable.…Typical," wrote VACMAN, of Nova Scotia.
The popularity of the list was not unexpected. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has projected that of Canada's 27 million residential phone lines, which include cellphone numbers, 16 million would be on the do-not-call list within two years.
However, it's possible the CRTC didn't expect millions to try to join the list in the first week. The CRTC confirmed the website went live at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, and about 200,000 people were able to register before it crashed eight or nine hours later.
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Palin on Russia.
Wow. I didn't know that being close to a country counted for foreign policy experience. That means i could apply for that job.
Perfect!
