N.Y. Burglar Was No Monster in the Closet (AP)

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A man in the closet

A man in the closet 04/12/2005 01:44 PM
Honey, there's a man living in our closet! How could a man live in your closet withou you knowing it?

Bombing ... The Closet ???

Bombing ... The Closet ??? 12/30/2002 09:45 AM
Bombing ... The Closet ??? You have to love Google News. You just plain have to: Aker's West Texas home was hit by a dummy bomb accidentally dropped from an Air Force F-177A Nighthawk on a practice run from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Although the dummy didn't contain explosives, it pierced the roof of Aker's home, flew across a bathroom and slammed through a wall into a closet. Aker was in her home with her two children when the bomb hit. Her daughter was at her side, but her son was in his bedroom. All three were unharmed. [_Go_]

Out of the closet and behind the gate

Out of the closet and behind the gate 04/30/2004 07:59 AM
The first gated community marketed at gays and lesbians is under construction in a small Florida town. Will it be a queer utopia -- or one more sign of the fragmentation of America?

Skeletons in the closet

Skeletons in the closet 10/31/2003 05:15 PM
Police find skeleton in Oddfellows lodge. Turns out, they'd already found it, 6 years before (your guess is as good as mine why no one did anything then). Even more interesting, it's not the only one that's been found and subsequently investigated by the police around the country. Makes you wonder about those Oddfellows.

Is that a cape in your closet?

Is that a cape in your closet? 04/19/2004 12:33 PM
Batman and Robin have been spotted on the streets of Whitley england, saving damsels in distress, scaring wrongdoers and even chasing naked men from football fields. Other self-made superheroes making news range from the amusing to the disturbing. Even MTV and Stan Lee are jumping into the fray with a cas ting call for a reality TV show where contestants will compete against each other in a show designed to develop their superhero characters and test their mettle as defenders of justice.

Deep in the Closet

Deep in the Closet 03/14/2005 05:38 PM
I am proud to be an American. Having said that, there is a lot about my country I am also ashamed of. Perhaps a shining example of that shame would be one Senator Rick Santorum. That a shitstain like this could ever hold public office as high as he does is a travesty that does not reflect well on my country. Now, before you object to me calling the eminent gentleman a shitstain, well, I must inform you that I am being completely accurate in my choice of words according to the very serious, very scholarly, very staid American Dialect Society. I am, of course, referring to the literal definition of the word santorum. The ADS announced that this new word and its definition was one of its 2004 Words of the Year. Now, how this word came to be derived from the self-stated beliefs and political actions of the Senator himself segues nicely into a psychological point I want to make about flamingly homophobic men like Senator Rick Santorum. I firmly believe that some of the most ardent anti-homosexual proponents in this world are actually deeply closeted homosexuals themselves. So, plug your nose and let us toss the psychosexual and psychopolitical Santorum salad.

The Closet of the Man in Black

The Closet of the Man in Black 08/10/2004 12:23 PM
Property from the Estate of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash (via a heartfelt post at saturation.org)

Windows out of the closet

Windows out of the closet 12/30/2003 06:27 PM
So I pulled my Windows machine out of the closet the other day and hooked it up to the net and a monitor and all that—I wanted to try out some Windows aggregators, see what features they have, see how they’re solving some UI problems, etc.

And I had some stunningly bad luck. Almost every single app I tried crashed on launch or right after displaying their main window.

My machine is a 500 MHz Dell box running Windows 98. It’s up-to-date with security patches, and it has .NET 1.1 installed. But... apparently it’s a bit too stone age. Fair enough: I’m not complaining, just learning a lesson.

Anyway... of the aggregators I did get to work, I was struck by how Windows-y they are. Wizards for adding subscriptions!

That’s not a criticism, by the way. Windows apps should have wizards, they should be Windows-y, just like Mac apps should be Mac-like. (And Linux apps should be... GNOME-y? KDE-ish?)

This experience was a reminder for me of how unimportant the underlying syndication formats are, in a way. What percent of time does an aggregator developer spend on RSS and Atom parsing code? 50%? 25%? 10%?

I figure it’s somewhere less than 1%.

The rest of the time is taken up with things like data storage, networking, and user interface. But mostly user interface. Not just implementing—which is often easy—but designing user interface, which is difficult.

What this means, finally, is that a Windows aggregator developer is foremost a Windows developer, and secondly an RSS/Atom developer. Similarly for Mac and Linux developers.

When the Computer Opens the Closet

When the Computer Opens the Closet 08/21/2004 06:49 PM
For many women who marry gay men, the truth comes out late at night, not in the bedroom but in front of the family's computer screen.

Man Living in Closet Charged in Homicide
(AP)

Man Living in Closet Charged in Homicide
(AP) 04/12/2005 11:06 PM
AP - A man was beaten to death after catching his wife's lover living in a closet in their home, police said Tuesday. Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez, 35, was charged with homicide in the slaying of 44-year-old Jeffrey A. Freeman over the weekend.

Man Living in Closet Charged With Murder
(AP)

Man Living in Closet Charged With Murder
(AP) 04/12/2005 04:04 PM
AP - A man was beaten to death after catching his wife's lover living in a closet in their home, police said Tuesday. Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez, 35, was charged with homicide in the slaying of 44-year-old Jeffrey A. Freeman over the weekend.

Skateboarding mums come out of the
closet (Reuters)

Skateboarding mums come out of the
closet (Reuters) 07/08/2004 07:21 AM
Reuters - Say "skateboarding," and most people think of underachieving, preadolescent boys personified by television's cartoon slacker Bart Simpson.

The Water Closet meets IP routing
technology

The Water Closet meets IP routing
technology 04/11/2005 08:42 PM
I haven't tried it, but this sounds great. The Toilet Tank Traffic Shaper - DUMMYNET rocks. Is there something similar for PF? For Linux? In vaguely related news I haven't had time to setup the Soekris box yet. My excuse is that I need to either work with OpenBSD or wait for FreeBSD to import the if_bridge code into 5.x to make it work well as a bridge. There's a patch for the if_bridge thing, but I couldn't get it...

The new burglar mask

The new burglar mask 01/11/2004 10:05 AM

Haaretz describes a robbery by wi-fi.

CBS News | NJ Gov. Comes Out Of Closet,
Quits | August 12, 2004 18:40:43

CBS News | NJ Gov. Comes Out Of Closet,
Quits | August 12, 2004 18:40:43 08/12/2004 08:24 PM
"My truth is that I am a gay American," he told a packed news conference at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J

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Pedal police net burglar

Pedal police net burglar 07/26/2004 09:22 PM
Calcutta Telegraph Jul 27 2004 1:06AM GMT

Skinny R.I. Burglar Strikes Again (AP)

Skinny R.I. Burglar Strikes Again (AP) 05/18/2004 11:59 AM
AP - The skinny burglar strikes again.

"Naked Man Chases Off Burglar"

"Naked Man Chases Off Burglar" 03/26/2005 12:17 AM

The Bluetooth Burglar Alarm

The Bluetooth Burglar Alarm 07/07/2004 09:04 PM
The Feature Jul 7 2004 11:46PM GMT

Man Foils Would-Be Burglar by Sitting
(AP)

Man Foils Would-Be Burglar by Sitting
(AP) 09/16/2004 03:34 PM
AP - Rick Fisk took crime sitting down. Or at least he sat on a would-be thief until authorities arrived.

Burglar with the Munchies (Reuters)

Burglar with the Munchies (Reuters) 08/12/2004 08:02 AM
Reuters - A hungry burglar more interested in food than glittering jewelry broke into nearly a dozen Seattle homes in the last week to gobble down vast quantities of food before being arrested, police said on Wednesday.

Burglar Caught While Using the Bathroom
(AP)

Burglar Caught While Using the Bathroom
(AP) 05/07/2004 10:34 AM
AP - Dewey Coulson's rude awakening came when he walked to the bathroom in the middle of the night, only to find an intruder using the facilities.

Burglar Takes Items, but Then Cleans Up
(AP)

Burglar Takes Items, but Then Cleans Up
(AP) 04/01/2005 10:41 PM
AP - A woman's apartment was cleaned out, and cleaned up by a burglar, police said. According to police, the woman returned home Thursday after being away for a week and discovered her television, computer and other items missing. The burglar had also helped himself to food and booze.

Woman "beats off burglar with gnome"

Woman "beats off burglar with gnome" 04/15/2005 11:59 AM
Xeni Jardin: BB reader Meggie says:

Elderly British woman wards off a burglar by heaving one of those goddamn garden gnomes at him. It was a desperate move, but thank heavens she did not have to use more than one gnome on him. What a great story (not to mention headline syntax).

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Hollywood: Norwegian hacker a burglar

Hollywood: Norwegian hacker a burglar 12/05/2003 09:01 AM
CNET Dec 5 2003 8:37AM ET

Burglar Found Dangling From Ceiling (AP)

Burglar Found Dangling From Ceiling (AP) 02/18/2004 10:52 AM
AP - Attala Abboushi couldn't believe his eyes when he opened his store and saw legs dangling from the kitchen ceiling.

Notorious Philly Cat Burglar Nabbed
Again

Notorious Philly Cat Burglar Nabbed
Again 01/17/2004 11:21 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 18 2004 2:39AM GMT

Burglar delivers himself to house in box
(Reuters)

Burglar delivers himself to house in box
(Reuters) 01/07/2004 03:06 PM
Reuters - A young Colombian thief hid in a parcel delivered to a wealthy home but his planned burglary went wrong when suspicious security guards called in bomb disposal experts, police say.

Burglar Delivers Himself to House in Box
(Reuters)

Burglar Delivers Himself to House in Box
(Reuters) 01/07/2004 03:05 PM
Reuters - A young Colombian thief hid in a parcel delivered to a wealthy home but his planned burglary went wrong when suspicious security guards called in bomb disposal experts, police said on Tuesday.

Second Time Unlucky for Burglar
(Reuters)

Second Time Unlucky for Burglar
(Reuters) 12/31/2003 10:49 AM
Reuters - A burglar who was wounded while breaking into a Chicago suburb home drove himself to the hospital in his intended victim's BMW, which he had likely stolen the night before, police said Tuesday.

Second time unlucky for Chicago burglar
(Reuters)

Second time unlucky for Chicago burglar
(Reuters) 12/30/2003 10:00 PM
Reuters - A burglar who was wounded while braking into a Chicago suburb home drove himself to the hospital in his intended victim's BMW that he had likely stolen the night before.

Ravenous burglar arrested in Seattle
(Reuters)

Ravenous burglar arrested in Seattle
(Reuters) 08/12/2004 12:54 AM
Reuters - A hungry burglar more interested in food than glittering jewellery broke into nearly a dozen Seattle homes in the last week to gobble down vast quantities of food before being arrested, police say.

Baby alarm snares bungling burglar

Baby alarm snares bungling burglar 11/05/2003 05:15 AM
Crimefighting, German-style

Stout Swedish Burglar Gets Stuck in Vent
(AP)

Stout Swedish Burglar Gets Stuck in Vent
(AP) 07/22/2004 01:31 PM
AP - A stout man trying to burgle a Stockholm office was busted by police after he misjudged his measurements and got stuck in a ventilation shaft.

CNN.com - Woman beats off burglar with
gnome - Apr 15, 2005

CNN.com - Woman beats off burglar with
gnome - Apr 15, 2005 04/16/2005 02:13 AM
Woman beats off burglar with gnome

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Teenage Burglar Survives Times Square
Plunge (Reuters)

Teenage Burglar Survives Times Square
Plunge (Reuters) 01/06/2004 11:55 AM
Reuters - A teenage burglar escaped from the custody of security guards and then survived an eight-story drop out of a Times Square office building, police said.

New York Daily News - Breaking News -
N.J. governor out of job, and closet

New York Daily News - Breaking News -
N.J. governor out of job, and closet 08/13/2004 12:27 PM
Political bombshell: NJ's governor James McGreevey admits he's gay and resigns .. “My truth is that I am a gay American,” he said .. Holy

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Monster API

Monster API 07/10/2004 07:36 PM
First Release Available

Monster App

Monster App 12/17/2004 06:43 PM

I love these new "timed team event" shows like Monster Garage, Monster House, and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. In these shows, a team has to build or convert something in a set time limit, usually five days. There's usually a lot of drama, yelling, and screaming, but they invariably end up with something beautiful at the end that just blows everyone away.

Why not Monster App? Pick a charity organization that needs a new Web site. We could start the show by sitting at the old Web site and laughing at how inept it is. Then we'd get to work.

We'd have five days to build a complete new Web site incorporating all their requirements (which wouldn't be allowed to change — ha!). I can see the late nights, the frayed nerves, the screaming matches when the app starts throwing parse errors 10 minutes before the red countdown clock reaches zero...just before we unveil a cool new Web site that just makes everyone realize how wicked awesome we all are.

I think you could make a show out of this. I'd watch it.

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