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Local Crime
It may be proportional to their desperation, but local criminals are definitely getting stupider.
1. Ms. C's Acura was nearly broken-into again while shopping with her mom in San Mateo County. The would-be car thief jammed in their fake key - and broke it in her lock. They were unsuccessful in their theft attempt, and destroyed their own tool. All ( Read more... ) -
News
1. Mountain People News:
1.1 Austria seeks to 'rescue image' ... c'mon, where do they expect all the closet pedophiles with dungeon construction skills to go? Belgium? Oh.
1.2 In another streak of madness, the 102 year old Albert Hoffman is confirmed dead. Ok, you know what has to be said, three, two, one..."What a long strange trip it's been ( Read more... ) -
Environmental & Space News
Recycles Theft: It's finally come to it. I was wondering how long it would take. The city's contractor now wants to take on lost value from the "mosquito fleets" of recycle thieves.
They even have a reporting tool online.
Regarding crime...I know I shouldn't generalize, but WTF?!
Other eco-news:
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Future films
1. Guerilla sounds interesting. Good cast, seems like. Hey, I've seen few bad films with Franka Potente, let alone Benicio del Toro. :-)
2. Of course I'm interested in the new Star Trek movie, but that's not going to come about for a long while yet.
3. What film should I try to catch in the cinema next?
- Resident Evil: Extinction
- Reservation Road
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Various
1. JK Rowling goes meta, and becomes a Slashfic author. ;-)
2. Rangoon curfew lifted.
3. Well, of course the FBI would grow suspicious when a whole warehouse of confiscated drugs disappeared! ;-p -
Emergency Poll: Stolen Bike Seat, a Replacement?
So I met up with an old German class colleague for dinner, and during the course of the meal, some asshole stole my bike seat! I even had a premonition/notion to move my bike to the open pole in full view of the restaurant window, but I ignored that voice of wisdom ( Read more... ) -
Crime & Punishment
What happens when SWAT paramilitaries are deployed to police the rough streets of Richmond? People get shot. So the deterrence factor of heavily-armed patrolmen lasts only 12 days in Richmond. Postmortem community pacification to result? Or gangland retaliation? Nasty business, this sort of policing. -
News
1. A question of railway investment in Eastern Europe.
2. Burning Man & the cash economy
3. Rove's retirement - merely the unleashed hellhound?
4. On Africa's development, op-ed by a couple of Peace Corps IT workers who spent time in Kenya. Fair points about internal development and avoiding hand-out dependence, but they also sidestep the ( Read more... ) -
Various
1. The All-Star Game at the Giants' baseball park brought more than the best baseball players in the business and their fans ... it also brought out a seedier entrepreneurial sort. Thankfully the police were on it, and they netted 130 pimps, prostitutes, and johns.
2. Apparently the 2008 election is already lost3. Right-of-center militarist ( Read more... ) -
Various
1. Whoa! Parthenogenic sharks! Biology is weird.
1.1 EDIT: Plus from the Sci-Fi File - Radiation-metabolising fungi
What was that theory called, pansporia? My goodness, if something as complex as fungi can thrive on that, anything is possible through space.
2. More poor behaviour by UN peacekeepers in the Congo...rearmament, for gold ( Read more... )