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No ticket needed: Google Street View takes you on a tour of post-apocalyptic Battleship Island
You've seen it from the air, and now your chance to tour the legendary, post-apocalyptic Battleship Island on foot has arrived. But wait! Put your suitcase down, because you'll be visiting from the comfort of your own living room, courtesy of the ever-inquisitive folks at Google.
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- Damn, I wish I was 12moldero
- God bless herdrgs
- Used to look good back in the day. Looks like a fucking crack addict now.CygnusZero4
- why was the 12 year old at the party?coldarchon
- OMG, Rape sooo funnneyGeorgesIV
- < HAHAmoldero
- how does one rape a guy btw?moldero
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- moldero, you're way to smart for me to start explaining to you what is wrong with this case...GeorgesIV
- yeah, I'm just crackinmoldero
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Russian Teens Allegedly Decapitate Homeless Man, Play Soccer With His Head?
A pair of Moscow teenagers were detained by police this week for allegedly decapitating a homeless man with a saw and ax, reports say.
Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reported Monday that the two teens had been intoxicated when they attacked the homeless man. One of the teens allegedly cut the man's head off, then scalping it and kicking it around like a soccer ball with his companion.
The newspaper writes that the teenagers kicked the head until it landed in a trash can. They reportedly left it there and returned home to sleep. RIA Novosti reports the head was "taken away by a garbage truck in the morning."
In a statement on its website this week, Moscow's Investigative Committee confirmed that a man's decapitated body had been found Monday, adding that law enforcement officials had arrested the two suspects after following a trail of blood that led from the crime scene to the teens' apartment, where a saw, an ax and bloodied clothing were discovered.
Despite initial reports, an Investigative Committee spokesman cast doubt on claims the suspects played soccer with the man's head after the decapitation, telling MetroNews.ru that a "full picture" of what happened has yet to be established. He did, however, say the man's head may indeed have been scalped.
According to RIA Novosti, the suspects could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of murder.- wow - only 15 years for that?bulletfactory
- its almost worth it!CALLES
- those crazy kidsmoldero
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Interesting read, nobody knows source yet
My Startup has 30 Days to Live
Through a series of unfortunate events, I took a bootstrapped (and profitable) startup onto the VC rocket ship. Now it's crashing into the ground. Hard.
http://mystartuphas30daystolive.…
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- It's kind of creepy now she looks more real. Barbie was never supposed to be real, like Scooby Doo isn't a real dog.mikotondria3
- YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH ABOUT SCOOBY!!locustsloth
- Shaggy was my weed dealer. lolyurimon
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- this more real. http://3.bp.blogspot…yurimon
- GF says "yuck, human proportioned barbie is gross! who would want to look like that"whatthefunk
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Facebook doesnt do sarcasm:
TEXAS TEEN IS JAILED, FACES 8 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ‘TERRORISTIC’ JOKE ON FACEBOOK
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i swear it wasn't me...
"Naked man breaks into Vancouver home to cook eggs "
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/…
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Talking train window adverts tested by Sky Deutschland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/techno…
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"Small plane crash lands near 405 Freeway in Long Beach"
This guy barely missed one of the busiest freeways in town, could have caused a really bad accident. I feel bad for anyone stuck in that mess right now. eek.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOhF…
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- why did i watch that.ohhhhhsnap
- if you link it, they will click italbums
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London represent!
World's Fattest Man May Now Be 812-Pound Londoner Keith Martin
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…
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Brazilian referee quartered and beheaded by fans after killing a player
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Toronto got 126mm of rain in a few hours last night, flooding the city and knocking out power to most of the subway and over 300,000 homes, and stranding 1,500 people on a commuter train for 7 hours:
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An IPA a day keeps the doctor away.
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Life is cheap in Brazil?...
- life is cheap everywhere. some cultures have just inflated the value along with their egoalbums
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Mexico takes the cake in overweight list!
Nearly a third of Mexican adults are obese, a recent United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization report says, topping even the United States, which comes in a close second at 31.8%.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/he…
Ameruka, I am disappoint!
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Naked Swimmer Distracts Homeowner During Robbery
If a strange woman asks to swim in your pool naked, be suspicious.
In Crossville, Tenn., a man and woman asked if the woman could take a skinny dip, and then the man said he was leaving to get cigarettes, according to the Crossville Police Department.
But while the woman swam naked and the distracted homeowner watched, someone robbed the home of nearly $1,000 in jewelry, cash, a handgun and prescription drugs, police said.
"We've seen numerous distraction methods - asking for help looking for a dog, asking for help with gas for a stranded car and then people come back and find their home was burglarized," Crossville Police Department Det. J.C. Hancock said. "They just took it a new level using a naked woman."
Police said they have eliminated suspects but have not been able to locate the alleged criminals.
Hancock said he was surprised to see the method these burglars used.
"Every time I think I've seen it all, there's something new," he said.
According to ABC News affiliate in Nashville, Tenn., News 2, the incident happened on June 27. The victim, Stephen Amaral, 54, said he gave the 30-something woman a towel when she was done swimming.
"I escorted her outside and invited her to church, but she said she didn't have time for that, she wasn't ready for that," Amaral told News 2.
Amaral told News 2 he did not notice the theft until after the woman had already left.
"They cleared me out and I just feel violated," Amaral said.
Amaral told News 2 he formerly used the handgun as a Mississippi deputy and he planned to pass it on to his grandchildren.
The Crossville Police Department said the investigation was ongoing.
Also Read- so, did this guy snap off any surveillance pics?aliastime
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BY RYAN TATE07.11.139:10 AMJulie Larson-Green at the Wired Business Conference this past May. Image via Wired Video
It remains to be seen whether the Microsoft reorganization announced by CEO Steve Ballmer this morning can rejuvenate the once-mighty software company. But one thing is crystal clear: The reshuffling marks another huge win for Julie Larson-Green, the 20-year company veteran whose pluck and team spirit helped her rise from rejected applicant to steward of Microsoft’s core mission.The reorg, outlined in a series of memos obtained by AllthingsD, puts Larson-Green, formerly co-leader of Windows, in charge of all hardware devices, games, music, and entertainment. That portfolio of devices and services puts her at the epicenter of Microsoft’s predominant goal to become “a devices and services company,” as Ballmer put it in an October letter to shareholders.
Today’s promotion is just the latest leap for Larson-Green. Most recently, she replaced her longtime boss and mentor, Steven Sinofsky, to become engineering head of Windows this past November, jumping two rungs up the ladder. Unlike the notoriously prickly Sinofsky, Larson-Green is known for her communication skills and ability to work well with others, uniting people, including those outside her own purview, around a common goal.
But if you step back a bit, her biography has been a story of tenacity and persistence in pursuit of a closely-held personal mission to reshape how the world uses computers, according to various press reports, public appearances by Larson-Green, and Microsoft in-house media.
Would she replace CEO Steve Ballmer? ‘I wouldn’t rule it out, but I’m not in a hurry.’
A native of the northern Washington town of Maple Falls, near the Canadian border, Larson-Green took to math as a child and wrote in her high school yearbook that she wanted to work at a computer company, even though she had yet to use a computer. After enrolling at Western Washington University — where her father was a student and where her grandfather had once worked as a maintenance worker — Larson-Green had to temper her interest in digital devices. Waiting tables to make ends meet meant that Larson-Green couldn’t hit the computer labs at night, when they were open to undergraduates, so she switched her major from computer science to business administration.The change-up seemed to lead Larson-Green into an inauspicious start: She received a rejection letter from Microsoft, already a local powerhouse and big player in the national PC market, settling instead for a tech support job at Aldus, a nascent Seattle-based maker of desktop publishing software. In the end, answering calls from angry customers for 10 months may have given Larson-Green a lasting advantage over more sheltered, cockier coworkers she no doubt encountered at Microsoft. “I learned a lot about empathy” at Aldus, she would later tell the UK’s Telegraph.
It was around this time that Larson-Green finally learned to program, teaching herself coding during breaks from her day job. Later, she earned a master’s degree in software engineering from Seattle University and upgraded her Aldus gig to become a development lead.
Roughly five years later, Larson-Green found herself in the potentially embarrassing situation of giving a frank assessment of the weaknesses and strengths of software code compilers made by Microsoft, along with those made by Microsoft rival Borland, to a room that turned out to be dotted with Microsoft staffers. But the Microsofties were impressed, and soon roped Larson-Green into a gig helping to oversee the development of Microsoft’s Visual C++ — just the sort of software development tool she had critiqued.
Larson-Green was finally inside the borg, where she found she had a penchant for developing the more humane side of computing, the user interfaces that bridge low-level computer code to actual people trying to complete real-world tasks. After Visual C++, Larson-Green became program manager for Microsoft’s website builder FrontPage and then oversaw user interface design for Office XP and Office 2003.
One of her brightest moments came with the release of Office 2007, for which she oversaw an innovative, context-sensitive user interface known as “the ribbon.” Though initially controversial with some hard-core Office users, the ribbon won wider acceptance and acclaim as an elegant way to expose the growing and often bewildering set of features available within Office. Larson-Green won Microsoft’s “outstanding technical leadership” award for championing the ribbon.
Larson-Green also won recognition for leading the planning around Windows 7, the successor to Microsoft’s poorly received Vista operating system. Where Vista was derided for being late, confusing, and painfully slow, Windows 7 shipped quickly and ran fast too, setting new sales records and winning plaudits in the tech press.
It was Windows 7’s brilliant but bizarrely bifurcated successor Windows 8 that ultimately thrust Larson-Green into the top leadership ranks. Overseen by Sinofsky, Windows 8 proved to be a poor seller, even though it has finally given Microsoft a truly innovative, even beautiful OS across tablets, phones, and PCs. Longtime Windows users were baffled by the new “Metro” interface and retreated into Windows 8’s old-school desktop mode, complaining that, even in classic mode, it wasn’t enough like Windows 7.
In retrospect, Sinofsky should have taken a page from longtime protégé Larson-Green, who, as Microsoft once put it, “decided not to compromise the integrity of Office 2007 with the safety net of a ‘classic mode.’” Although it was Sinofsky who pushed Larson-Green toward her ribbon project in the first place — “I didn’t want to do it,” she once said — it was she who largely assumed his duties once Sinofsky was pushed out this past fall.
It’s hard not to wonder whether Larson-Green will end up replacing a controversial boss once again, if and when Ballmer leaves the company. The longtime Microsoft sales executive has been rightly criticized for allowing once-catatonic rival Apple to surpass Microsoft in driving the growth of personal computing, first through music players and now via smartphones and tablets.
And it’s interesting that when ex-Wired editor Michael Copeland asked Larson-Green about replacing Ballmer at our business conference this past May, she was uncharacteristically blunt. “I wouldn’t rule it out, but I’m not in a hurry,” Larson Green said. “Give me a year and ask me again.”
We definitely will.
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