Read moreAs officers walked toward the pickup, they saw the man pick up a handgun, police said. They said they returned gunfire and radioed for help.
Three CHP vehicles had their windows shot out, but no officers were shot, police said. They said the driver was armed with a rifle and a shotgun as well as the handgun and fired at least two of the weapons during the shootout.
Morgan said the driver was hit numerous times and survived only because he was wearing a bullet-resistant vest.
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Janice Williams said she kept the guns because “eventually, I think we’re going to be caught up in a revolution.” But she said she had told her son many times that “he didn’t have to be on the front lines.”
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Read moreRead moreSpace is one of the paramount sites for the legitimation of Western configurations of power/knowledge. The kinds of futures people ascribe to space–e.g., the military-technocratic order of Star Trek: the Next Generation–have a lot to do with the apotheosis of colonialism under the auspices of neo-liberal capitalism (Kilgore 2005)
Watch a NY Times journalist try to interview a robot
Time for a chuckle, as we watch this stumbling interview between a NY Times journalist and the robot “Bina48″, a creation of Terasem:
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As is made…
Watch a NY Times journalist try to interview a robot
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a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the World Trade Center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the Manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to light at 175 Water Street.
The area under excavation, between Liberty and Cedar Streets, had not been dug out for the original trade center. The vessel, presumably dating from the mid- to late 1700s, was evidently undisturbed more than 200 years.
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About the farthest Mr. Mackey and Mr. Pappalardo would go in conjecture was to say that the sawed-off beams seemed to indicate that the hull had deliberately been truncated, most likely to be used as landfill material.
A 1797 map shows that the excavation site is close to where Lindsey’s Wharf and Lake’s Wharf once projected into the Hudson.
(via 18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site – City Room Blog – NYTimes.com)
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On July 11, 2010, the new moon passed directly in front of the sun, causing a total solar eclipse in the South Pacific. In this image, the solar eclipse is shown in gray and white from a photo provided by the Williams College Expedition to Easter Island and was embedded with an image of the sun’s outer corona taken by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on the SOHO spacecraft and shown in red false color (via NASA – The View From Easter Island)
Read moreRead moreThe website is a portal into time and space,“ he told BBC News at the TED Global (Technology Entertainment and Design) conference in Oxford. "I have always wanted to go back in time and I was constrained by the practical difficulties of doing that.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 