TSA inspector breaks airplanes by climbing on them using instruments as handholds - Boing Boing (26)
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A TSA inspector decided to get a closer look at some American Eagle jets at O'Hare, so he climbed up on them, using a fragile, vital instrument (the Total Air Temperature probes) as handholds. He damaged the craft so badly that the regular maintenance crew grounded them -- and if they hadn't noticed, the lives of everyone on-board could have been endangered. Remember, folks, the "S" in TSA stands for "Security." Citing sources within the ...
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Derrick said:
"ABC News reports an overzealous TSA employee attempted to gain access to the parked aircraft by climbing up the fuselage... reportedly using the Total Air Temperature (TAT) probes mounted to the planes' noses as handholds. "
10 Adobe AIR Apps for Web Designers (58)
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Adobe AIR - a cross-platform runtime environment for rich-internet and desktop applications - is just starting to get popular outside of the early-adopter circles, but there’s already a growing amount of tools and utilities that can help web designers with various design-related and managerial tasks. If you’re a web designer that’s into experimenting and trying out new applications (they don’t cost a dime), check out these 10 Adobe AIR applications perfect for web designers. Graphics ...
Simplify Media Streams Your Entire iTunes Library to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download] (45)
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iPhone/iPod touch only: Simplify Media streams your entire iTunes music library directly to your iPhone or iPod touch over your Wi-Fi or cell network. Considering that the largest iPhone currently weighs in at 16GB and most of our music libraries are significantly larger, this one's got all kinds of obvious potential. We already saw Simplify Media for jailbroken devices, but with this release Simplify Media is officially legit. Apart from your own library, you can ...
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John said:
wow. definitely going to make this happen on my new iPod touch, can't wait to have 30K songs at my disposal!
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DJ said:
I've been doing this for a year or two now using Kplaylist and TCPMP on my WM phone. I like it because no special software. Kplaylist is just php/mysql and has a web interface for use on a regular desktop.
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joekwon said:
if you have an iphone with 2.0 loaded, and you use iTunes (which i bet you do), this is simply awesome.It connects to your library on your computer from anywhere you get a data signal.
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Neo2049 said:
very very cool
BBS-Era Graphics and Advertisements (2)
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
IKEA Laptop Stand and Organizer [Tip Testers] (11)
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Reader moritzvd repurposed a $20 Mackis CD storage drawer from IKEA into a killer laptop stand, organizer, and desktop declutterer. The conversion is dead simple, requiring little more than a hole in the back of the container to run cables and some small lifts on top to add cooling space between the laptop and the stand. Moritzvd's clever touches—like storing an external USB drive for Time Machine backups in one of the drawers—demonstrate the stand's ...
Web exclusive: $50 date (1)
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There’s nothing sexier than a politically minded counterpart, so get involved: Next Saturday, August 23, take your date to the Obamarama Fundraiser (1283–1287 Atlantic Ave between New York and Nostrand Aves, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn), from 1 to 9pm, which will feature finger-lickin’-good BBQ, live bands and stellar art exhibits. (Everything’s free, but donations are accepted.) When the Obama fest fizzles, stroll over to Outpost Lounge, where you can discuss your view on health care over watermelon ...
Red Hook IKEA Not Such a Nightmare After All (1)
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The Times took Red Hook's temperature this weekend, almost two months after the dreaded IKEA -- the first in New York City -- reared its ugly blue head on the Brooklyn waterfront. And contrary to all the hand-wringing, the paper finds that the big box "turned out to be less annoying than people thought." A worker at the Van Brunt Street cafe Baked says, "Everyone was talking about it before. But now, no one talks ...
‘What’s That Smell?’ or An Olfactory Primer on New York’s Subway System (1)
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I’m on vacation for the next week, but since New York’s subways never shut down, neither will Second Ave. Sagas. I’ve enlisted the help of a few bloggers to help keep things fresh around here. Today’s guest post comes to us from Clinton, keeper of the Zombie Fights Shark! blog. Be forewarned: This guest column is not for the faint of heart or nose, and the piece contains some adult language. Sadly, there is no ...
Isaac Hayes, R.I.P. [Obituaries] (1)
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Soul pioneer Isaac Hayes was found dead at his Memphis home this morning. Hayes' decades-spanning career began with a gig writing, arranging, and producing music at Stax Records, where he collaborated with David Porter on tracks for Sam & Dave and Carla Thomas, among others. His own recording career began in 1967, then really took off with 1969's landmark Hot Buttered Soul; later, his work on the Shaft soundtrack would go on to garner worldwide ...
Gallery of 101 Vintage Computer Ads [Retromodo] (8)
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Sure, some of us remember using the Commodore 64, but do any of us recall what the ads for it were like? Boingboing has aggregated a wonderful collection of 101 classic computer advertisements by everyone from AT&T (yeah, I forgot they tried their hand in making PCs too) to Texas Instruments. Aah, to be back in a world where everything fit inside a bulky keyboard and displays were monochromatic. [Boing boing]
Theremin: Theremin Musician Plays the Super Mario Bro.s Theme (6)
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Watching videos of NES enthusiasts playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on weird stuff is always fun, and here's one of musician Randy George on the theremin. What's a theremin? It's a Russian invention that's also one of the earliest electronic musical instruments ever created. Players move their hands around the Theremin's antennas, controlling the sound's frequency and amplitude (pitch and volume). Randy's working on recording a classical Theremin album—I wonder if it'll include his ...
GrandDialer Brings GrandCentral to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download] (46)
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iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application GrandDialer integrates with previously mentioned GrandCentral—Google's phone-consolidation service—so you can seamlessly call contacts from your iPhone using your GrandCentral number. The beauty of GrandDialer is that the call you place will display your GrandCentral number instead of your AT&T number, so contacts will call back on the right number (assuming you use your GrandCentral account as your main number). The app integrates with your contacts, so dialing is just as ...
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Neil said:
" The beauty of GrandDialer is that the call you place will display your GrandCentral number instead of your AT&T number, so contacts will call back on the right number (assuming you use your GrandCentral account as your main number)."
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Ryan said:
Hilarity ensues if you use this to connect calls between co-workers in a building that doesn't show the numbers of outside callers.
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dknowles said:
+1 awesome
News Flash: Subway Stations Are Gross (2)
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Photograph of a West 72nd Street subway stair hairball by Joe Schumacher on Flickr; the hairball has been there for 3 years and counting. Okay, maybe it's not a news flash, but New York City Transit Riders Council has put it on paper--61 pages to be exact (PDF)--as it reported that many stations are in need of a lot of cleaning and care. The NY Times noted that the worst conditions at some included "water ...
