Monthly Archives: October 2012

Imagine carrying around a bunch of shrapnel in your leg for nearly 70 years 4

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Imagine carrying around a bunch of shrapnel in your leg for nearly 70 years

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"Mr Brown told loved ones he still had a 'bullet' in his leg and asked his grandchildren not to sit on his knee because of the pain it caused. But when he died last week aged 94 his family had him cremated and were stunned when staff handed them back a big bag of shrapnel."

Weighty memento: war veteran’s secret revealed after his death – Telegraph
The family of a war hero only discovered the full weight of his bravery after his death when his cremation left behind a huge pile of shrapnel.

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I could live with this as a next generation +Ford Motor Company  Mustang 12

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I could live with this as a next generation +Ford Motor Company  Mustang

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2015 Ford Mustang revealed (maybe)! We have details and renderings of Ford's next pony: http://cardrive.co/6038pDIG

Spy photos: http://cardrive.co/6039pDIH

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And the DeltaWing is ready to rock the Petit Le Mans

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 For the second time 4 years, the Highcroft Racing crew has had to work round the clock to rebuild a car from scratch following a practice crash.  Check out the time lapse!  Here's the 2009 version http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/27/patron-highcroft-team-builds-new-acura-prototype-in-just-over-20/

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Here's an old Eastern Airlines commercial for their then-new Boeing 727 that… 6

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Here's an old Eastern Airlines commercial for their then-new Boeing 727 that touts it's quietness. 

I had the unfortunate experience of flying on Northwest’s 727s between Detroit and Phoenix a few times in the early 90s before they were retired. Quiet is not a word I would use to describe the 727, especially the time that I was unfortunately relegated to the very last row in coach, right between the three engines. That many well have been the longest 4 hours of my life.

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+Tim O'Reilly gets it exactly right and +Leo Laporte has been saying this for… 8

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+Tim O'Reilly gets it exactly right and +Leo Laporte has been saying this for years as well. All the hand-wringing about Google, Facebook and even advertising tracking cookies completely misses the real potential problem.  The ones we should be worried about are the internet service providers which today is almost exclusively our cable and phone companies. Even if you disable all cookies, use private browsing and erase everything after you're done with a session, every single page request you make goes through your ISP's server. 

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"We're able to view just everything that they do," Verizon Wireless exec has boasted.  This is why all the government focus on privacy issues at Google and Facebook seems so wrong-headed.  There are a lot of companies that have just as much data or more about what people are doing, and who  are exploiting the hell out of it while getting a free pass from regulators.

Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing habits
‘We’re able to view just everything that they do,’ Verizon Wireless exec has boasted. Privacy groups say initiative — including linking databases showing whether customers own pets — may violate wir…

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+Phil Nickinson adds a little context and perspective to this morning's earnings…

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+Phil Nickinson adds a little context and perspective to this morning's earnings announcement from +Verizon Wireless 

A little perspective … | Android Central
It’s a big, big world out there. Let’s put Verizon’s Q3 activations into perspective.

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While this is almost certainly not illegal, it's certainly unethical 16

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That said I wouldn't try to ban anyone from encouraging others who to vote for because that would also affect those that I support and free speech is more important than control. 

What must happen is that we eliminate these tax-exempt super-PACs and also require full disclosure of all donors and how much they are spending.  Everyone should have the same opportunity to speak, but we should know who is trying to buy our elections. 

Finally, this case involves the National Federation of Independent Business which broke off from the US Chamber of Commerce because they thought that organization was "too progressive"

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Another site talking about this…

Leaked Audio Captures Romney Asking Employers To Tell Their Employees How To Vote
Newly-discovered audio from a conference call in June captures Mitt Romney asking business owners to urge their employees to vote for him. Romney, speaking on a call to the very conservative National …


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Check out the Highcroft Racing team building a whole new car in less than 20 hours…

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Check out the Highcroft Racing team building a whole new car in less than 20 hours before the 2009 Petit Le Mans after Scott Sharp's crash destroyed the previous car. http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/27/patron-highcroft-team-builds-new-acura-prototype-in-just-over-20/


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There's something about the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta that must give the…

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There's something about the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta that must give the Highcroft Racing crew nightmares. During a practice session on Wednesday, the innovative DeltaWing crashed, doing heavy damage to the car. The incident was eerily similar to Scott Sharp's crash in the run-up to the 2009 race. 

The damage to the Acura ARX-02a that Highcroft was campaigning then was even more extensive than the damage this time including a cracked tub. Honda Performance Development air-freighted a fresh carbon fiber tub from California to Atlanta and crew went to work, basically building a whole new car in just 20 hours putting it back on the track in time for the Saturday morning pre-race warmup. http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/27/patron-highcroft-team-builds-new-acura-prototype-in-just-over-20/

This time around, the team expects to be back on track later today. 

BTW, driver Gunnar Jeanette walked away from this, again demonstrating how well modern race cars protect their occupants. 

deltawing – News – NISSAN DELTAWING ASSAULTED IN ROAD ATLANTA TESTING
The Nissan DeltaWing’s assault on the 15th annual Petit Le Mans event suffered a set-back in testi…


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