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 eFluxMedia | Continental Plane Meets Strange Flying Object In Mid-Air eFluxMedia - By Dee Chisamera A Continental Airlines flight had a close encounter with an unidentified object, which was described by the pilot as some sort of rocket, traveling fast and leaving a thick smoke trail behind. FBI: Pilot saw flaming object near Cleveland-bound jet Rocket With Smoke Trail Shoots Past Airliner |
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 The Money Times | NEWSMAKER-Vodafone's Sarin bows out on his terms Reuters - By Kate Holton LONDON, May 27 (Reuters) - When Vittorio Colao returned as deputy chief executive to mobile phone giant Vodafone in 2006, the news sparked speculation that he was being set up to replace the "beleaguered" CEO Arun Sarin. Ahead of the Bell: Vodafone slips as Sarin out Vodafone boss announces shock departure |
 PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) | EU Security Agency Wants Social Network Scrutiny PC World - Europe's top Internet security agency, ENISA, called Tuesday for new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Hackers make way for criminals in cyberspace 'We must avoid a digital 9/11', EU experts say |
 Javno.hr | Mars lander is 'in good health' BBC News - Nasa says its Phoenix spacecraft is in good health after making the first successful landing in the north polar region of Mars. Images sent back show a flat valley floor with polygonal features that give the ground a "paved" appearance. Phoenix’s Mission Takes Full Effect Science team gets Phoenix ready to dig into Mars |
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 eFluxMedia | Atlantic Coast Can Expect up to 9 Hurricanes in 2008, Say Forecasters Insurance Journal - By Anthony McCartney The nation's annual forecast about how many hurricanes the Atlantic Ocean will churn up is now more like the daily weather report. Study: Global warming could reduce number of hurricanes Federal forecasters expect busy Atlantic hurricane season |
 eFluxMedia | Veterinarians Go All The Way To Save Baby Eagle’s Life eFluxMedia - By Dee Chisamera The one-month-old baby eagle from the Norfolk Botanical Garden, who impressed people around the world with its appearances on “Eagle Cam,” has been admitted to the Wildlife Center of Virginia for extended care and treatment. Wildlife official says eaglet's prognosis 'not promising' Baby eagle suffering from growth |
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For $6Tn we could buy a lot of juice — a quarter of our global civilization's energy budget would go carbon-neutral at a stroke. (Yes, we just solved our carbon dioxide emissions problem by switching to a nuclear economy.) This probably isn't the ideal way of dealing with our environmental problems, and it's a naive treatment of the costs (has anyone done a proper treatment of the economic implications of shifting the planet over to a nuclear economy, say to the same extent as France?) but it's thought-provoking.LinkFinally, there's all the other little stuff we could solve by pointing $513Bn at it, never mind $6000Bn. Eliminating childhood diseases in South-East Asia? Piffle — Bill and Melinda Gates are trying to do that out of their pocket lint. Build first-world grade housing in shiny new cities for 600 million Chinese peasants, nearly a tenth of the planetary population? Yes, this budget will cover that. What else?
Yes, I'm asking you: what would you do with the cost of the Iraq war (take your pick: $513Bn or $6000Bn) in your budget? Colonise Mars? Solve our carbon emission problem and fix global warming? House half a billion people? Or something else ...?
(And what isn't going to happen now, because we pissed it all away on the desert sands?)
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THE makers of this postwar “dream desk” imply that it began as a designers’ joke, but its reception at a Chicago exhibit has brought it into actual, though limited, production. All set for work or play, as the drawings indicate, it is made by the Gunn Furniture Co., of Grand Rapids. The price: “Well into four figures.”
Link, Link to Victrola Favorites on Amazon (Thanks, Hollow Earth Radio!)Jeffrey Taylor and Robert Mills of the Seattle experimental music group, Climax Golden Twins, are great compilers of music of a bygone era and far away places. They collect REALLY GREAT 78 rpm shellac records and record them on a real victrola with a microphone, for a smooth and much better tone than other transferred 78 compilations. This is world music (including america) from the 20's, 30's, and 40's. They previously released these on cassette and now have made a 'best of' two CD set called Victrola Favorites that comes in an extremely handsome 144 page hard cover book full of 78 curio, covers, and needle box pictures.
You can listen to audio samples at the label's (Dust-to-Digital) website. The entire two-disk set will be aired on Wednesday at 9 pm (again Thursday at 10am) on Hollow Earth Radio, and Jeffrey Taylor will be interviewed about the process of putting this together.
Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting the materials were directly relevant to his research, Rizwaan Sabir, 22, was held for nearly a week under the Terrorism Act, accused of downloading the materials for illegal use. The student had obtained a copy of the al-Qaida training manual from a US government website for his research into terrorist tactics.Link (via /.)The case highlights what lecturers are claiming is a direct assault on academic freedom led by the government which, in its attempt to establish a "prevent agenda" against terrorist activity, is putting pressure on academics to become police informers.
Sabir was arrested on May 14 after the document was found by a university staff member on an administrator's computer. The administrator, Hisham Yezza, an acquaintance of Sabir, had been asked by the student to print the 1,500-page document because Sabir could not afford the printing fees. The pair were arrested under the Terrorism Act, Sabir's family home was searched and their computer and mobile phones seized. They were released uncharged six days later but Yezza, who is Algerian, was immediately rearrested on unrelated immigration charges and now faces deportation.
 CCTV | Weather satellite launched to support the Olympics Spaceflight Now - China launched a polar-orbiting weather satellite early Tuesday, giving forecasters another tool to make detailed weather predictions for the Beijing Olympics later this year, state media reported. China launches second Olympic satellite A New Weather Satellite and Worrying Pollution |
 eFluxMedia | Ernst Stuhlinger Leaves This World, But His Dream Continues eFluxMedia - By Dee Chisamera The scientific world lost yet another brilliant mind this year, as Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, the German rocket scientist, passed away on May 25, at the age of 94. Ernst Stuhlinger's career Ernst Stuhlinger Dies |
 SlashGear | VIA Announces New UMPC Reference Design PC Magazine - The OpenBook reference design was created largely in response to the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC. by Cisco Cheng We've seen the Everex CloudBook emerge from VIA's Nanobook reference design, so what's in store for the company's latest ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) ... Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a ... VIA launches “open source” notebook |
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 WWNY TV | Return to Rainy Reality Washington Post - You knew we were due. After one of the best Memorial Day Weekends in recent memory, the return of a wet day was inevitable. And it looks to be today. Forecast: Rain chances increase this afternoon 7:54 AM Memorial Day Monday |
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["Did you know that there are people in this country who want prayer out of schools, "Under God" out of the Pledge, and "In God We Trust" to be taken off our money?"]Link (via Pharyngula)"But did you know that 86% of Americans say they believe in God? Since we all know that 86 out of every 100 of us are Christians, who believe in God, we at Kieffe & Sons Ford wonder why we don't tell the other 14% to sit down and shut up. I guess I just offended 14% of the people who are listening to this message. Well, if that is the case then I say that's tough, this is America folks, it's called free speech. None of us at Kieffe & Sons Ford is afraid to speak out. Kieffe & Sons Ford on Sierra Highway in Mojave and Rosamond, if we don't see you today, by the grace of God, we'll be here tomorrow."
Health officials in New York are cautioning people to avoid a "street aphrodisiac" made from the excretions of a poisonous toad, after a man consumed the illegal concoction and died.
The city's poison control center issued the warning Friday after receiving a hospital report that a 35-year-old man who ingested the hard, brown substance died earlier this month. The product is sold under names including Piedra, Love Stone, Jamaican Stone, Black Stone and Chinese Rock at sex shops and neighborhood stores. It is banned by the Food and Drug Administration.Link to AP item, more on a NYT blog here.City health officials said the victim, whose identity was not released, was admitted to the hospital complaining of chest and abdominal pain. He died two days later. Health officials said the hardened resin, made with venom from toads of the Bufo genus, contains chemicals that can disrupt heart rhythms.
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Stuff like tricloroethylene, formaldehyde, and benzene can be really toxic. Yet they're commonly found right in your house. Fortunately, adding some common houseplants to your surroundings can apparently help clean up the toxins. Our friends at GOOD Magazine posted a useful charticle showing where the compounds tend to rear their ugly heads and the common plants that can act as, er, toxic avengers.NAIROBI, Kenya -- For veteran wildlife ranger Joseph Kimojino, the traditional tools of his trade -- binoculars, off-road jeep and a rifle -- have been supplemented by Twitter, Flickr and a blog.
A ranger in Kenya's acclaimed Mara Triangle wildlife park, Kimojino is a member of the Masai tribe. He first learned how to click a computer mouse in November. Now he blogs about the Mara Triangle and posts wild animal photos on Flickr nearly every day.
Kimojino's online outreach is an effort to raise awareness and money for the park, and it's urgent: Without the funds he raises online, his employer, the Mara Conservancy, would go broke. Admission fees from park visitors are the conservancy's primary source of revenue, but tourism dropped to almost zero during Kenya's post-election violence, and hasn't snapped back.
But the park's online efforts are working. Despite relatively modest traffic, the blog raised $40,000 from donations in March. Kimojino's Facebook page drew about $2,000; and a handful of safari companies bought advertising on the blog in exchange for sponsoring rangers.
"All the rest has been from single donations from individuals around the world, from donations as small as $5 to our biggest, which was $5,000," says William Deed, the experienced blogger behind the park's online outreach effort.
Kenya's wildlife is seriously threatened by poaching, except in parks like the Mara Triangle, which employs rangers to protect animals. The rangers' salaries are paid from park fees, but tourism has dropped 90 percent. To keep the conservancy running, the park's online outreach needs to raise $50,000 a month until the tourists return -- a job that's fallen into Deed's lap.
Two years ago, Deed, 28, was an office temp in Rotherham, England, "a really shitty, shitty town near Sheffield," he says. Deed was so bored with his lot, he started a blog about the banalities of waiting in line.
The blog became popular, and within months, Deed was recruited by the conservationist blog network WildlifeDirect, brainchild of famed Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey and his son-in-law, Emmanuel De Merode.
Deed's assignment: Help wildlife rangers set up blogs about mountain gorillas and other animals in the Congolese guerrilla stronghold of North Kivu.
Eastern Congo was much less boring than Rotherham, Deed found. After surviving more than a dozen evacuations and being ultimately driven out of the park by Laurent Nkunda's rebels, Deed found a more peaceful but no less adventurous assignment with the Mara Conservancy.
Now Deed is the producer of the conservancy's expanding online presence, always looking for compelling storylines about animals and rangers, and coaching Kimojino on the possibilities of online communication tools. Deed likes to text in news from ranger patrols to Twitter, like this message from April 9: "Three poachers have been caught, found with dried meat from a hippo."
The duo's blog, Flickr page and tweets from the savannah make for an unfolding plot, like a reality television show -- with ads asking for donations. It's the kind of material that earnest animal lovers eat up.
It's more dangerous work than most bloggers are used to. In late April, Kimojino's blog reported on an hourlong gun battle between cattle rustlers and park rangers. One ranger was shot twice during the raid and had to be airlifted to a hospital in Nairobi, where his life was saved by an infusion of four pints of blood.
Most of Kimojino's work is a little less violent. A gentle man devoted to the animals of the park he works for, Kimojino takes a drive every morning at 6:30 to check on the predator population that has been attracting tourists and documentary filmmakers to the Triangle for more than two decades. Kimojino notes the weight and behavior of lions and cheetahs that his sharp eyes spot in the vast fields of tall grass, and takes photographs.
On a game drive one morning, the ranger stops his car in front of a herd of antelopes and whips out a camera. "I have never had a Coke's Hartebeest on Flickr," he says, taking a picture.
The publicity project started in February when the conservancy's purse emptied of emergency buffer funds. The first month, Deed says the blog had only five to 10 hits a day, but through frenetic online promotion and press, Deed says the audience has grown to 450 unique visits per day.
Kimojino's Flickr page has more than 520 contacts from the world over. Before he finishes tagging and naming his pictures one Sunday in April, there are already adoring comments from a woman in the United States about his pictures of cheetah cubs. Flickr's analytics report that he had 1,688 views the previous week.
Getting online has not been without its risks for Kimojino. He explains that for him to be speaking about the park to the public, instead of his boss, breaks traditional Kenyan decorum and was at first difficult for him. But he got used to being the public face of the Mara Triangle.
Deed mentions that after a few months of this online activity, Kimojino went to the optometrist -- he was worried the computer would damage his eyesight, hindering him from spotting, for example, a leopard in a tree two kilometers away, as he did during my visit. (I couldn't even see the spots with an 84mm zoom lens.)
Will Kimojino keep blogging after the tourists return? "If I stop as soon as we have enough money, people will say -- these guys, they were just doing it for the money," he says. "I must continue."
: The bridge is among our most ancient technologies. The moment some distant ancestor thought to place a log where he (or she) wanted to cross the stream, and not where the logs happen to have fallen, the bridge was born.
A bridge inspires us. A bridge overcomes an obstacle and connects someplace to someplace else, with strength and often with grace and beauty. A bridge lets us go to the other side.
The spiritual connection is old. The high priest of ancient Rome carried the title of Chief Bridgemaker, or Pontifex Maximus. The head of the Roman Catholic Church still carries that Latin title, pontiff or pope in English.
The bridge can give reassurance to lovers holding hands, hope to the thwarted and consolation to the broken-hearted. The bridge connects, physically. It unites the divided. It makes one of what had been two.
The world has millions of bridges. To say Happy Birthday to the Golden Gate Bridge, we share with you a dozen of our other favorites.
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The Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) across the River Arno in Florence, Italy, dates back to Roman times, but the current bridge (so to speak) dates back to 1345 (by Taddeo Gaddi), with the long upper gallery added by the great Renaissance architect Giorgio Vasari in 1564. It is probably the oldest segmental-arch (that is, the arches are not the full semicircles of Roman design) bridge in Europe. It is certainly among the most romantic.
Photo: DuccioBartolozzi/Flickr
: Be not deceived by its Gothic design. This iconic London landmark was designed in 1884 and built from 1886 to 1894. Architects Horace Jones and John Wolfe Barry solved the problem of access for ship traffic on the Thames with two gigantic hydraulic bascules, or drawbridge spans. The side spans are suspension design. The high-level walkways were designed to allow pedestrians to cross even when the bascules were up.
There's a story that the buyer of the old London Bridge thought he was buying this one to move to Arizona, but it's apparently just a story. Both buyer and seller have denied it.
Photo: Christopher Chan/Flickr
: The asymmetrical main pylon of Erasmus Bridge inspires Rotterdam residents to call it the Swan. Like other cable-stayed bridges, the 1996 structure also evokes a harp or lyre. Architect Ben van Berkel's design crosses the River Maas. Sidewalks, bicycle lanes, streetcar rails and vehicle lanes connect the old city with new development to the south. It's 456 feet high and 2,631 feet long, including a 292-foot bascule that allows large ships to pass beneath.
Photo: Blond Avenger/Flickr
: The Gateshead Millennium pedestrian and bicycle bridge crosses the River Tyne between Newcastle and Gateshead in northern England. It's both a cable-stayed bridge and a drawbridge. Completed in 2000, the unique design by Wilkinson Eyre Architects (with Gifford & Partners engineering) rotates on its longitudinal axis (counterclockwise in this view). The arched upper span tilts downward (about 45 degrees) as the curved pathway tilts up, so that both are high enough above the water to allow boats to pass beneath. Locals compare it to a winking eye. It stands just downstream from a series of historic low- and high-level road and rail bridges.
Photo: Pickersgill Reef/Flickr
: When I first saw pictures of the Forth Bridge, I thought it ungainly, even ugly. After learning its history and seeing it in person, I realized I was wrong. The 1890 rail bridge across the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh is strikingly beautiful, its muscular cantilever structure robustly suited to its task and its time.
Designed by John Fowler and Benjamin Baker, its three 330-foot towers carry two clear spans of 1,710 feet each. The main structure is 5,350 feet long, not counting the approaches, and the bridge still carries up to 200 trains a day, connecting Edinburgh to the north of Scotland.
Photo: Simon Bradshaw/Flickr
: What fun! It may look like an amusement-park ride, but the Magdeburg Water Bridge carries a canal on a 748-foot span across the River Elbe in eastern Germany. Originally conceived in 1919, it finally opened in 2003. It connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the important Mittelland Canal, linking Berlin to the Rhine-Ruhr industrial heartland. The main span directly above the river is 348 feet long.
Photo: Chris Lori/Flickr
: The Millau Viaduct carries the A75 motorway across the valley of the river Tarn in southern France, allowing a major north-south route to bypass a tangle of mountain roads. Designed by Norman Foster and completed in 2004, it's the world's longest cable-stayed bridge, at 8,660 feet, and the world's tallest, at 1,125 feet. It's taller in fact than the Eiffel Tower, which remarkably was built by the same firm.
Photo: chericbaker/Flickr
: Kintaikyo (Kintai bridge) near Iwakuni City was first built in 1673. It washed away in a flood the next year. Its replacement lasted until a typhoon destroyed it in 1950. The new bridge was built in 1953. The five graceful arches each span 131 feet for a total length of 656 feet across the Nishiki River. Because of its beauty, the bridge got its name from kintai, or gold brocade sash.
Photo: kamoda/Flickr
: The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, the world's longest and tallest suspension bridge, links the city of Kobe with Awaji-shima Island, as part of the highway connecting the Japanese islands of Honshu and Shikoku. Completed in 1998, it stretches 12,828 feet across the stormy Akashi Strait. The center span is 6,527 feet, more than half again as long as the Golden Gate Bridge. The towers are 928 feet high.
Photo: kamoda/Flickr
: The Oresund Bridge carries rail and road traffic between Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmö, Sweden. The bridge-tunnel combo is the longest border-crossing structure in the world. Completed in 2000, the 10-mile length includes an artificial peninsula at the Danish end, a 2.2-mile tunnel, a 2.5-mile artificial island and a 4.9-mile cable-stayed bridge. The toll for a passenger car is about $50.
Photo: Lauri Väin/Flickr
: That's Asia on the right and Europe on the left -- with Istanbul's Ortaköy Mosque. The suspension bridge links the ancient city with its Asian suburbs. Completed in 1974, the Bosporus Bridge is just short of a mile long end-to-end, with a center span of 3,524 feet. Venus Williams played an exhibition tennis game on the bridge deck in 2005, with the volleys crossing from one continent to the other.
Photo: pictalogue/Flickr
: Australia's Sydney Harbor Bridge doesn't link continents, but symbolizes one. Its 1,650-foot steel-arch span used to be the world's largest, but Chinese bridges now surpass it. Completed in 1932, the Sydney Harbor Bridge connects Australia's biggest city with its northern suburbs, carrying rail, vehicle and pedestrian traffic. It used to get called the Coathanger a lot, but that name seems to be fading. Perhaps, like the Parisians with their at-first-reviled Eiffel Tower, the Aussies are getting used to it at last.
Photo: semuthutan/Flickr
: John A. Roebling's masterpiece, the Brooklyn Bridge, killed him in a construction accident in 1869, soon after work began. The composite of suspension and cable-stayed design (hence its trademark criss-cross cables) enabled a bridge 50 percent longer than any other suspension bridge when it was completed in 1883. It pioneered bridge-construction technology both with pneumatic caissons below the water and steel cables in the air.
The bridge celebrated its 125th birthday last Saturday, but from its beginning has inspired artists and writers. Edward Steichen and Walker Evans photographed it. Georgia O'Keefe painted it. Hart Crane praised it: "O harp and altar." Jack Kerouac had his "Brooklyn Bridge Blues" there.
way out; way in; romantic passageway
first seen by the eye of the mind,
then by the eye. O steel! O stone!
Climactic ornament, a double rainbow
The Brooklyn Bridge inspired politicians, too. So firmly did the bridge link the separate cities of New York and Brooklyn, they merged in 1898 to form Greater New York.
The bridge is what we see in it. It is what we wish it to be. And it's also still a workaday way to get from the Lower East Side to Brooklyn Heights.
Photo: ehpien/Flickr
1937: After nearly four-and-a-half years of construction, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrians. Approximately 18,000 people are waiting to walk across the span when it officially opens at 6 a.m.
The bridge opened to automobile traffic the following day, when President Franklin Roosevelt -- at the White House 3,000 miles away -- pressed a telegraph key that simultaneously announced the fact to the world.
That was the easy part.
The idea to span the Golden Gate, the mile-wide strait connecting the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean, was originally proposed by a madman. Joshua Norton -- a San Francisco merchant who went bankrupt and lost his marbles, declaring himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico -- decreed the building of the bridge in 1869.
A few years after Norton's decree, railroad magnate Charles Crocker, a lot less endearing but a lot more influential than the good emperor, presented the first concrete plan, with cost estimates, for spanning the Golden Gate. Despite his clout, Crocker got about as far with his plans as his dotty predecessor did.
It wasn't until 1916, when a proposed design for a bridge published by the San Francisco Call caught the eye of the city's chief engineer, Michael O'Shaughnessy, that serious planning began. The original cost estimate came in at a staggering $100 million (nearly $2 billion in today's money). That might have deep-sixed things again if not for the appearance of Joseph B. Strauss, a structural engineer with 400 bridges under his belt, who said he could complete the project for around $30 million.
Things simmered on the back burner while United States ran off to the World War, but in 1921 Strauss came back again with a formal $27 million bid and won the contract. The 1920s were spent lining up political ducks, fiddling with design proposals and dealing with the War Department, which had final say on the construction of anything that might affect ship traffic or military logistics.
By late 1929, the Golden Gate Bridge District was formed, and Strauss' original prosaic cantilever-suspension hybrid design had been replaced by an all-suspension bridge. Irving Morrow, a local architect, is the man responsible for the Golden Gate Bridge's graceful art deco design, as well as choosing its distinctive color: international orange (which contrasts with the surrounding sea, sky and land regardless of weather or season). The structural calculations provided by consulting engineers Charles Ellis and Leon Moisseiff persuaded Strauss to abandon his own design in favor of Morrow's, for which the world can give eternal thanks.
With things nearly set to go, along came the Great Depression. That, along with additional soil testing and political infighting that eventually cost Ellis his job, delayed the start of construction until January 1933. It was a testament to the Bay Area's faith in the project that, only a year into the Depression, voters overwhelmingly approved a $35 million (about $450 million today) bond to finance the project.
(Emperor Norton, beloved and coddled by his fellow citizens, had also ordered a bridge to be built connecting San Francisco with the East Bay. And eventually the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was built -- at the same time as the Golden Gate Bridge.)
The Golden Gate Bridge was an engineering marvel. The site alone -- buffeted by high winds and split by the swirling currents of the Golden Gate -- made construction treacherous. The sheer size of the bridge (the longest suspension bridge in the world until the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened in 1964) required several innovations in bridge-building technology, especially where it came to constructing the two colossal anchorages in -- and under -- turbulent water.
Of all the mind-boggling statistics surrounding the bridge's construction, and there are plenty, perhaps the most jaw-dropping involves the two main suspension cables. Each measures 7,659 feet in length and each used hundreds of pencil-thick wires bound together to make a cable just over three feet in diameter. In all, more than 80,000 miles of steel wire was needed, enough to circle the earth three times.
Since a fall from the roadbed practically guaranteed death (a fact that more than a thousand suicide jumpers have confirmed), an enormous safety net was slung under the main span at a cost of $180,000. It was money well spent: At least 19 lives were saved as a result of the net.
In fact, it looked as though the bridge would be finished without the cost of a single life until tragedy struck only several months from the end. In October 1936, Kermit Moore, an ironworker, was crushed to death by a falling beam. Then, the following February, 11 men plunged to their deaths when the platform they were working on fell off the bridge and tore through the safety net.
Yet the work continued, and the bridge was finished ahead of schedule and under budget. On the first day it was opened to automobile traffic, an estimated 32,300 cars crossed the span between noon and midnight. That number is slightly higher today.
Source: PBS, City of San Francisco
The great film director, producer, and actor Sydney Pollack died today at 73 years of age, at his home here in Southern California. Here is an obituary in the New York Times. I met him briefly in the course of producing tech conferences during the web 1.0 boom. He had some truly inspired ideas about narrative in the digital age, and the clash between old Hollywood vs. new. He seemed a generous and kind person. Image: NYCArthur.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Net Neutrality Rally (May 27th, 2008 - 11:30AM until 1:30PM)Link (Thanks, Robbo!)
What are we rallying for?1 - Competition:
- To stop Vertical Market leveraging
- To stop/prevent a Duopoly Environment (where Cable/Telco incumbents control)2 - Innovation:
- To allow new content and applications to develop and/or flourish (ie: facebook/google)3 - Consumer Rights:
- Promote ISP transparency
- Promote Consumer Privacy
- Promote the need for Product delivery (get what you pay for)
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