February 2011
40 posts
In Biscayne Bay, the shrimp are running – at last... →
Pink shrimp – conspicuously absent from Biscayne Bay since the opening of the commercial harvest season last November – suddenly popped up by the thousands Sunday night. And commercial fishers expect the late-season shrimp run to continue through the end of this week
Portland Oregon: A Mecca For The Misplaced (NPR) →
The city’s entire population is growing, but Portland is still about 80 percent white, making it one of the most homogeneous metropolitan cities in the country. Many of the migrants don’t have jobs, kids or a mortgage. So why do they keep coming?
Blood On the Dancefloor: Winter Music Conference... →
For 11 years, the two have coincided by design: UMF launched in 1999, piggybacking on the then-13-year-old WMC’s growing popularity. While an anomalistic Easter forced a one-week move in 2004, both events were otherwise held the last week in March. WMC always launched midweek, and UMF wrapped up the weekend. But this year, an unexpected shift in dates has made that scenario impossible,...
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Stretch and Bobbito, Back on the Air (Village... →
In the annals of college radio, few programs had a more substantial impact than The Stretch Armstrong Show, or, as it’s more commonly known, “The Stretch & Bobbito Show.” DJ Adrian “Stretch Armstrong” Bartos and Robert “Bobbito” Garcia’s hip-hop broadcast, which aired 1 to 5 a.m. Friday mornings (“Thursday nights”) on Columbia...
WatchFirst ever aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe released
Pawn shops booming during credit crunch (The... →
Pawnshop respectability surged when the economy faltered, noted the National Pawnbrokers Association’s Murphy. He says pawnshops serve the middle class who were cut off from credit, as well as the millions of Americans who don’t bank and have no checking or savings accounts. Murphy says pawnshops also reported during the downturn that restaurant owners were trading in jewelry to make...
U.S. Steel to Pittsburgh workers: Don't miss shift... →
a U.S. Steel memo says workers in the Clairton, Irvin and Edgar Thomson mills who miss work Sunday or Monday “without just cause” will face “severe disciplinary action.”
Piracy off the coast of Somalia is getting worse;... →
LAST year, pirates took 1,181 people hostage off the Somali coast. About half were released after the payment of ransoms, a few have died of abuse or neglect and around 760 are currently in captivity. They are usually held prisoner on their own hijacked vessels, some of which are employed as mother-ships from which the pirates stage further raids. So far this year, there have been 35 attacks,...
Drunk Driving, Beating Your Wife, and Other Things... →
CNN laid hands on some internal FBI documents rounding up the Bureau’s disciplinary actions since 2008. Guess what? Putting your wife in the hospital gets a 45-day suspension, but fudging an expense report or smoking marijuana gets you fired.
Forbes: Miami is the Second Most Miserable City in... →
The sun and lack of a state income tax are the only things keeping Miami out of the top spot. Foreclosures hit one in 14 homes last year. Corruption is also off the charts, with 404 government officials convicted of crimes this decade in South Florida.
“If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want...”
– A Note on Egyptian Torture (The Atlantic)
What will happen to Florida's Space Coast after... →
Over the years, the shuttle has not just brought dollars to Brevard County—or to the rest of the US for that matter—but a unifying statement of daring and of America’s capacity to do what no other country can do. “Whenever we launch, it is an act of courage. It is an act of risk taking,” John Shannon, the director of the programme, told me. “Even though we are reminded after Challenger and...
Pizzerias brace for crush of Super Bowl orders... →
Turns out this is one of the five big pizza days of the year. The other four? Halloween, the day before Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, says Jeremy White, editor-in-chief of the trade magazine Pizza Today. All of which require some serious flour power. At the Papa John’s chain, officials expect to sell a million pizzas when the Steelers meet the Packers on Feb....
Password Protect Your Wireless Router or Risk... →
Malcolm Riddell, a 58-year-old married resident of Sarasota, never got around to password protecting his wireless router. That led to the FBI knocking on his door, holding him up against a wall, and searching his computer for images of child porn.
Who's gonna play Dr Rosenpenis? ==> Warner Bros... →
Warner Bros and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to Fletch, the Gregory McDonald novel series that starred Chevy Chase.
Wikileaks: The FBI has launched a manhunt for a... →
Secret documents reveal that the three Qatari men conducted surveillance on the targets, provided “support” to the plotters and had tickets for a flight to Washington on the eve of the atrocities.
'Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb' →
Wikileaks: Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons after sourcing nuclear material and recruiting rogue scientists to build “dirty” bombs, according to leaked diplomatic documents. A leading atomic regulator has privately warned that the world stands on the brink of a “nuclear 9/11”.
