Police Blotter: July 31, 2010Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 11:38PMThe following is a list of felony criminal activities reported to the police. Numbered addresses of crime victims’ private residences and locations where crimes occur are rounded to the nearest hundred block.AGGRAVATED ROBBERY An Oklahoma City,...
The hardest life: surviving Cuban jailFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 11:09PMBoiled plantain-flavored water as soup. A greasy scoop of bland, yellowing beef fat as a side dish. A stew dubbed ``the giraffe'' because ``you had to stretch your neck to find something in it.'' A hairy heap of ground pig eyes, cheek, ears, and other unidentifiable parts served as a main course.
Notebook: Hamlin, Newman confirm they were finedFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 4:44PMBy Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
Clevo W860CU 3D and ASUS G51JX-3D bring three-dee to US laptopersFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 3:02AMNVIDIA teased us with the introduction of the 3D-ready G51JX back at Computex (you may remember it as one of the founding " 3D PCs "), and now AVADirect is bringing that very machine to US soil. Said rig boasts a 15.6-inch display, Core i7-720QM processor, 6GB of DDR3 memory and a 1GB GeForce GTS 360M GPU. Better still, Clevo's W860CU offers an identically sized display, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX ...
Magic Trackpad or tragic Mac pad? A reviewThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:53PMWhen I was 12, using a Performa 600CD, my parents gave me an external trackpad accessory that connected via ADB (a moment of silence for Apple Desktop Bus, please... thank you) for my birthday. The useable surface area was tiny—maybe three-quarters the size of a 3.5" floppy—and clunky, but I thought it was the coolest thing ever... for about five minutes. I soon learned that tracking around your ...
'Daddy's in heaven': Rig victims' families share memories, mementosThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 8:52AMSherri Revette cuts through thick pines, guiding the four-wheeler down dirt and mud trails to her tranquil spot, a sandbar along the Chickasawhay River about a mile behind her home in the backwoods of Mississippi.
Listen to the silenceThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:54AMSilence may be golden, but where, in this noise-filled world of ours, can you truly experience it? Stuart Jeffries heads off to a spiritual retreat in search of some inner peace It's kicking off in the quiet carriage. At Reading, two elderly people get on and the lovely hush that has existed on this corner of the 09.59 from Paddington is over. "Which seats?" barks the wife. Her husband, two ...
Eastern Tiger SwallowtailWednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 2:00PMStory and photos by Sandy de Waal Malefyt
ArtScene: Catch Them Before They Close: Top Current Exhibitions in the NorthwestWednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:42AMFrom the San Francisco Bay Area to Seattle, summer along the Northwest coast is as close to paradise as we are likely to get.