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"this story and amazing picture"

"this story and amazing picture" 06/04/2004 05:03 PM

amazing and bitersweet story of 9/11
widows

amazing and bitersweet story of 9/11
widows 05/27/2004 02:00 PM
i find something reassuring about the fact that they have a dark sense of humor

The True Story of Audion

The True Story of Audion 12/19/2004 03:30 PM

Cabel Sasser tells the extraordinary story of Audion.

"at least the basic story is true"

"at least the basic story is true" 07/17/2004 08:59 PM

Dan Rather: The "story is "true" even if
the documents aren't

Dan Rather: The "story is "true" even if
the documents aren't 09/10/2004 08:23 PM
CBS News stands by its story, .. an interview with Rather .. has responded

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Polygraphs Don't Give True Story

Polygraphs Don't Give True Story 05/14/2004 04:46 AM
Researchers have yet to develop a foolproof technology to determine whether a person is telling the truth. That hasn't stopped interrogators from relying on their old, flawed standby: the polygraph. By Noah Shachtman.

First Che-ez! Foxz2 Review, and a True
Story

First Che-ez! Foxz2 Review, and a True
Story 05/04/2004 06:17 PM
There are times when cheap, off-brand gadgets can be hidden treasures; there are times when those treasures hatch beetles that kill and eat your pet lizard (this may be, admittedly, rare). Guess which one the Che-ez! Foxz2 2-megapixel camera is? GadgetMadness picked up one for $99, thinking it a fun...

A true story about Joan Baez

A true story about Joan Baez 04/14/2005 10:21 AM

I lived in a nice ho use wi th a g arden on three beautiful acres b y a< /a> c reek in W oodside, Ca lifornia, from 1992 to 2003. I sold it to one of my neighbors, who used my land to add to his, which, according to Woodside's zoning regulations, allowed him to build a bigger house, which he wanted to do.

My old house, built in 1929, with thick walls that kept the house cool in summer, a fantastic place to throw parties, and a place that could be pretty lonely, at the end of a long driveway, was deleted shortly after the deal was done.

Anyway, one day, a couple of years before I moved, the phone rings, I pick it up and a woman at the other end says "Hello this is Joan Baez." I knew she was a neighbor, but we had never spoken. I guess I was too nervous, star-struck. She's a famous folk-rock star, dated Bob Dylan, played at Woodstock, stuff like that. She said she was going to get baby sheep (or goats?) to live in her yard and they would make a lot of noise at first because they were separated from their mothers, but eventually they'd calm down, and she wanted to let all the neighbors know.

I said okay, no problemmo, but why are you getting sheep?

"I've always wanted them," she said.

"Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story"

"Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" 06/18/2004 07:48 AM
Sure, it's dumb as a hard rubber ball, but this Ben Stiller comedy about the sport that traumatized us all is strangely exhilarating.

Ben Mezrich: the telling of a true story

Ben Mezrich: the telling of a true story 02/10/2004 02:57 AM
Ben Mezrich (photo) is the author of Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. I learned about the book first from his Wired article, "Hacking Las Vegas: the inside story of the MIT blackjack team's conquest of the casinos". I got the book this past Christmas and enjoyed it. It's an easy read. The story is engaging. However, in my review at Amazon (page back to 30Dec03), I questioned the book's veracity. To my surprise, I got an e-mail from the author: "Wanted to set your mind at ease... [T]he book is for real, as are the stories in it." Further correspondence resulted in his agreement to a phone interview. It's sad that when an author writes a book as a true story -- even with the backing of a respected publisher like Simon & Schuster -- in our times there are too many skeptics refusing to believe. But, then, they were also the publisher for Stephen Ambrose, confessed plagiarist. And The Old Gray lady tolerated fabricated stories for over four years. Yet American civilization has not fallen beyond redemption. Plagiarists and liars are, for now, the exception, not the rule. As this story turns out, Ben Mezrich rules.

Care Bears: the true story

Care Bears: the true story 03/23/2005 08:23 AM
Come quick! I'm being eaten by a bear! In 1977, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, a 31-year old geologist working for the US Geological Survey, lost both arms after an encounter with a hungry black bear during a field trip in Alaska. Not only she survived her ordeal, but she resumed her work as a USGS scientist. She can also tell you a few things about living a life without arms (she calls it "a multi-media approach"): how to chop carrots, undress, wash the dishes, read, and use a mouse.

A true story; selling open source

A true story; selling open source 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
Here is the scene: Several of us programmers at a small custom software business have been advocating that we open source our code. We advocate it gently and consistently, and have done so for years. The owner of the company is finally friendly to the idea, but would never seriously entertain the notion because he wants profit and no matter how many times it is described to him, cannot fathom how money can be made with something that you're giving away for free.

Recently, I found a small personal project that incrementally blossomed into quite a large project (for a single programmer). Early on, since I was defining the terms of the project, I requested from the customer that it be made open source. He said "sure," since it made no difference to him.

Last week, I approached the owner at my day job, and told him I was working on another project evenings and weekends. His initial response was not positive, and he said he would think about it. During the weekend, while I was working on the project, he stopped by the office. As he was leaving, the following conversation took place:

True story: as a teenage waiter, I once
spit-shined the silverware.

True story: as a teenage waiter, I once
spit-shined the silverware. 02/01/2005 09:58 PM
Revenge is a dish best served cold. The NY Times [bugmenot ] tables a tasty selection of vindictive waitstaff blogs. MeFi (ahem) servers, past and present, who were your worst customers? And did they get their just desserts?

Electric Universe : The Shocking True
Story of Electricity by David Bodanis

Electric Universe : The Shocking True
Story of Electricity by David Bodanis 04/12/2005 05:37 AM

This biography of electricity -- and of the men and women who had a hand in uncovering its inner workings -- begins in the first moments after the Big Bang. Which is probably not where your high school textbook started its exploration of the subject, nor will you find many of the oftentimes surprising stories Bodanis uses to illustrate his tale.

The first mobile phone was dev eloped in 1879? Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, "had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be"? Alexander Graham Bell, in part, invented the telephone to impress a girl (well, acutally the girl's parents)? Samuel Morse stole the telegraph from a guy named Joseph Henry and patented it, but not before he ran for mayor of New York City on an anti-black, anti-Jew, and, most especially, anti-Catholic platform? None of that was in my high school science textbook and such is the authority of the textbook that I have a hard time believing some of it. You're thinking maybe Bodanis is embellishing for the sake of making a more exciting story (history + electricity? wake me when it's over!), but then you get to the 50 pages of notes and further reading on the subject and realize he's shooting straight and science is more strange, exciting, and sometime seedy than your teachers let on.

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Saddam and al-Qaida: It's true because
it's true

Saddam and al-Qaida: It's true because
it's true 06/17/2004 05:57 PM

Micah Wright Comes Clean, Ranger Story A
Hoax (This Is Apparently A Big Story In
The Blogosphere, But To Be Honest, I
Haven't Even Heard Of This Clown)

Micah Wright Comes Clean, Ranger Story A
Hoax (This Is Apparently A Big Story In
The Blogosphere, But To Be Honest, I
Haven't Even Heard Of This Clown) 05/03/2004 03:57 AM
Comic Book Resources has the full scoop

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"REMEMBER WHEN MOQTADA AL-SADR was going
to lead a popular uprising across Iraq?
(That was April's we're-losing story).
Well, he didn't, and here's the story of
how we won. I wonder how much attention
it'll get..."

"REMEMBER WHEN MOQTADA AL-SADR was going
to lead a popular uprising across Iraq?
(That was April's we're-losing story).
Well, he didn't, and here's the story of
how we won. I wonder how much attention
it'll get..." 06/24/2004 11:11 AM

The Raw Story | A rational voice »
Exclusive: Print document of Republican
Schiavo talking points leaked to Raw
Story

The Raw Story | A rational voice »
Exclusive: Print document of Republican
Schiavo talking points leaked to Raw
Story 03/24/2005 05:02 PM
that clumsy Republican talking points memo .. proper perspective .. Raw Story

rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=202
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Why $2 Gas Is Amazing

Why $2 Gas Is Amazing 05/22/2004 03:24 PM
Why $2 Gas Is Amazing Gasoline is now selling at more than $2 a gallon, which, after inflation, is higher than it's been since 1981. But that's not the amazing part. Actually, there are three amazing parts.

Amazing Inova X-5 at 25% off

Amazing Inova X-5 at 25% off 09/02/2004 05:54 AM
The Mother of all Torches at a bargain price

20 Amazing Facts About

20 Amazing Facts About 12/31/2004 12:54 PM
20 Amazing Facts About Read this and cry. Or move to another country.

The view from up here is amazing

The view from up here is amazing 04/11/2005 02:45 PM
It's truly incredible what you can see when you look down from the heights of idiocy -- the vistas are breathtaking. Right now I'm looking at a wad of virus-generated mail bounced back to me because it failed an SPF check at the receiver's end. Yep, that's right. Someone configured their mail server to check and see if inbound mail had a forged From address and, if it found that it was, bounce it back. Back to the forged from. You know, the one you just checked and found thatit didn't come from. Some days people truly puzzle me....

The amazing napper!

The amazing napper! 04/13/2004 08:49 AM

Since last Monday -- no not yesterday, Monday April 5th -- I have had a nap every afternoon lasting in duration from one to over two hours! That's eight straight days of napping, and frankly I'm about done with all the tiredness. I'm ready to get back to the business of living.

An Amazing Feat

An Amazing Feat 07/25/2004 12:21 PM
Lance Armstrong, winner of his sixth consecutive Tour de France may be the best athlete of our times. A great champion.

More amazing Down and Out news

More amazing Down and Out news 12/18/2003 01:03 PM
This week's Entertainment Weekly lists the 10 Best Novels of 2003. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is number five. It's also one of Sunday, December 28th's NYT's "New and Notable" paperbacks. Link

An amazing Year!

An amazing Year! 06/06/2005 12:01 AM

A Year ago I was laying in a hospital bed overseas having just come out of surgery that resulted in some stainless steel in my back with 4 wicked screws, and a severely damaged vertebrae. This would be the start of 13 days in the hospital, being fit with a full body cast, then graduating to a clam shell device that cost my insurance company 7k, and a heavily medicated patient for 8 weeks following the surgery.

The day I quit my pain meds I went cold turkey on a Friday, told my Doctor on Tuesday after having a very agonizing 3 days, and nights. I obviously needed the pain meds early on, and having remembered laying on a hospital emergency room bed screaming for about the first 9 hours because the morphin they gave me didn't really help I was reluctant to go down that road again.

I returned to work after 8 weeks off and within a week, was back in a Airplane on a 6 week business trip. My Doctor lost his mind but hey when it was time to get back to work you have to dive back in. The hardest part for the 3 months was the clam shell was not being able to pick my kid up.

Finally in Feb of this year, I was given the green light to start light exercising. I podcasted my hospital experience and you can find the audio clip on this p ost you can take a look at the h ardware I carry around here.

I am not complaining, as I am very blessed to be walking, and even though I live in a constant state of low level pain life is good. The wife had expected me to be rolled off the airplane as the initial prognosis was really bad and instead I walked off.

One thing though because I flew back from the middle east only 15 days after being injured, I had to lay flat as much as possible so I enjoyed 1st class on 3 consecutive flights and enjoyed the food but had to decline the liquor, as the Roxicet and the Oxycodone I was prescribed was enough bad stuff in my blood stream.

Thus having spent my 40th birthday in that hospital bed contemplating life, and having really looked forward to 2004 being in my rear view mirror the road ahead is a bright one and I am happy to be have faired as well as I have. So their may be times when I get excited about stuff and jump in with both feed but the reason for that is simple I was given a second chance to make profound changes in my families and people I come in contact withs life.

My Wife, and Kids were champions and my extended family and friends prayed and took car of my wife when I was half a world away. Thank you for being here during the past year also.

Todd..

Apple I: the Mac is amazing

Apple I: the Mac is amazing 01/07/2004 02:43 PM
So months after wondering what this integrated "Rip, Mix, Burn" technology in OS X is all about, I finally got around to making a movie -- Mr. Willem's First Christmas. It was astonishingly easy to make. It took a couple hours of shooting with a Sony DV Cam, and then a couple hours editing. Sound directly integrates with iTunes. Photos directly integrate with iPhoto. And the result directly integrates with iDVD. All that's missing is a simple way to integrate Creative Commons licenses, the way, e.g., MT does, and Adobe will (as announced at our party, at which the latest cool Flash! was shown as well).

Amazing Mr. Bickford

Amazing Mr. Bickford 04/01/2005 02:22 PM
The Amazing Mr. Bickford. Most Zappa fans know of Bruce Bickford for his claymation work in Baby Snakes and other Zappa movies. Recently a documentary was made of him and now he has his own web site which features a small sampling of his story board work. For some other claymation samples (not by Bruce Bickford), try here.

Amazing Animals

Amazing Animals 08/18/2004 06:30 PM

Amazing Images

Amazing Images 06/29/2004 07:29 AM
Amazing Images - the BBC has a series of 10 pictures of fetuses at various stages of developments. There's no information about how they were obtained, but they are pretty striking. I imagine they must have been taken with one of the new ultrasound techniques (which are apparently called 4D imaging now).

Survivors tell of amazing escapes

Survivors tell of amazing escapes 12/29/2004 02:17 PM
British survivors of the Asian tsunami have been involved in amazing rescues and heroic acts of bravery in the aftermath of the disaster.

Copy Editors Are Amazing

Copy Editors Are Amazing 03/06/2004 02:09 AM
I spent a fair chunk of time this weekend going over the latest draft of the book. The figures are now in it, the layout is mostly done, and the copy editor has made a lot of changes to it. Those changes are often quite subtle but have a very obvious effect: they make the text readable. It's not that what we turned in wasn't readable, but compared to what we got back from the copy editor, it's like night...

What’s So Amazing About the LatchTool
PowerCylinder™?

What’s So Amazing About the LatchTool
PowerCylinder™? 03/14/2005 04:09 PM
The Latchtool Group Hosts Contest to Find Hot Applications for its New Force Amplifiers. [PRWEB Mar 9, 2005]

The most amazing salad in the world

The most amazing salad in the world 08/01/2004 01:15 PM
The other night, as Jason already reported, I had dinner at Craft. One of the highlights of the meal for me was the special heirloom tomato appetizer we ordered. It perfectly accentuated the range of intoxicating sweetness to be found in these delightful vegetables (fruits, whatever). As a fairly recent victor in Battle Tomato, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, and found myself on Friday buying over a pound of heirloom tomatoes at the Greenmarket to attempt an at-home recreation of the dish. I'm happy to report that my Craft's Heirloom Tomato Salad was a huge success (coupled with fresh corn on the cob, it made for an all-Greenmarket-veggie dinner). So delightful was it that Saturday morning on my way home from a run, I stopped again at the Greenmarket to use my last few dollars to buy three more tomatoes. If you enjoy tomatoes and have access to nice ripe heirlooms, you couldn't ask for a better way to enjoy them.

It's amazing what you find in a mess

It's amazing what you find in a mess 03/14/2005 05:38 PM
Some of the things I had no idea were on my computer's desktop, discovered while cleaning it up: A recipe for Pickled Oysters with English Cucumber "Capellini" and DillA map of the Madaket (Nantucket) bus routeVarious torrents of things I never listened to, like Jon Stewart's Crossfire appearanceMore strange .pdf files that I must have inadvertantly downloaded than I care to admitAn Excel spreadsheet from 4/2003 comparing the costs of purcasing an espresso machine to going to the local coffee shop to making due with my French Press pot at homeMy brother's "updated" résumé from early 2004 From here on out, I resolve to be neater! Next job: cleaning up the 6,935 emails in my inbox (all either read or skimmed), oldest dating back to 9/13/01!

The amazing Steve Ditko

The amazing Steve Ditko 06/06/2005 12:00 AM
Spider-Man's reclusive co-creator went into hiding decades ago, but his spirit continues to haunt the best of today's comics

The Amazing Shrinking Google IPO

The Amazing Shrinking Google IPO 08/18/2004 10:53 AM
CBS News Aug 18 2004 2:33PM GMT

Unreal 3's amazing detail

Unreal 3's amazing detail 04/14/2004 05:02 PM
Here's a 12 MG Windows Medis video clip of Unreal's fantastically detailed world. Link
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