The FCC is considering dedicating a portion of the wireless spectrum to "free or a very low cost wireless broadband service," according to Reuters. They didn't offer much in terms of details, and you can file this one under the believe-it-when-we-see-it category, but it's a nice thought. [Reuters via Gizmodo]
The Tennesseean reports a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot herself to death using a gun that resembled a video game controller after playing the Wii. From the newspaper's story:
Three-year-old Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan shot herself in the abdomen with the family’s handgun at their home in the rural Norene community, Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe said.Ashe said the girl’s stepfather had taken out his gun to try to frighten off dogs that had been hanging around the home.
The child had been playing a Nintendo Wii video game, Ashe said. The game’s controller was shaped like a gun that looked very similar to the real handgun, which her stepfather had put on a table in the living room. Ashe said the girl pulled the gun off the table and it went off.
This tragedy has some hot button political variables involved, including gun control, firearm safety and the tendency for video games to desensitize kids to violence.
What do you think people to do to make sure things like this don't continue to happen?
Accidental shooting kills Wilson County child [The Tennesseean, via Kotaku]
‘We all had carbon monoxide poisoning and over the next two days spent a total of 6 hours in the hyperbaric chamber at the hospital. I’m in the foreground, then my husband, then his parents. Someone suggested that it looks like a low-budget star trek convention.”
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How else to explain raids on Resurrection Ale House, Local 44 and Memphis Taproom that occurred last Thursday? In simultaneous raids by state police that sought to flush out, prohibition style, “unregistered” beers, all three bars saw thousands’ worth of kegs and bottles confiscated. One problem: Many of them were in fact registered with the PLCB — they just weren’t annotated properly on the PLCB books. Oh, and another problem: All three bars raided belonged to Leigh Maida and Brendan Hartranft, which seems fishy as hell — the basis for the raids was a tip from a concerned citizen, never minding that the kinds of craft beers served at Resurrection/Local 44/Memphis Taproom are available in brew pubs all over the area. For their part, Maida and Hartranft are fighting back — providing the state with documentation on the beers they believe they were selling perfectly legally, and saying that they’re the victims of an inept system that is archaic at best and anti-business and anti-tax revenue at worst. And since we’ve all been under the thumb of the PLCB since forever, who would disagree?
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Verizon: 4G gets 12Mbps average, 50Mbps peak in real world — Verizon today expanded on some of the actual results for its expected 4G network. After testing in the Boston and Seattle areas, the provider estimates that a real connection on a populated network should average between 5Mbps …
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137 years of the magazine Popular Science are now being hosted online by Google. You can peruse at your leisure, though you’ll have to search by keyword. We don’t see a date or issue browsing option. The cover art alone is worth your time, even if you’re not a fan of the articles. Many of us have fond memories of our childhood being influenced by the contents of these pages.
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Featuring more than 400 pages and over 1500 images, the LOST Encyclopedia will be a comprehensive guide to the characters, items, locations, plotlines, relationships, and mythologies from all six seasons of the landmark series aired on ABC-TV and produced by ABC Studios. Created in full collaboration with ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios, this will be the first and only fully licensed and comprehensive reference to all things LOST, and it includes a foreword by executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.Seven arguments Republicans should not be making against using reconciliation for health-care reform, and the one that they should.
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Demand, meet supply: the Dolphins will charge more money for fans who want to sit in the shade. Good, now they can watch Chad Henne struggle in relative comfort.
Miami sounds like a lovely place right about now to those of us in the Northeast, but summers are absolutely miserable. Rain, every single day. Oppressive humidity, even when it's not raining. And, holy crap, can it get hot. September's 90-degree average is no weather for football.
The new pricing is the result of a study conducted by Harvard and MIT researchers, who found that it will feel up to 15 degrees cooler in the shade. So, for a mere $5 extra, you can insure your seats are on the south side of the stadium. The Dolphins bench is on that side for a reason. Just think: you can enjoy the very same shade that NFL players do!
This isn't new: the Jaguars do the same thing (the Bettman-hater in me wants to savage the NFL for expanding to the Sun Belt). But where does it stop?
Does it cost extra for the nosebleeds under the overhang, that are out of the rain? Perhaps we can fiddle with the price tiers for night games, so the more expensive ones don't have that pesky moon glow in their peripheral vision. And how can we change more for seats directly behind that chick in the cutoffs and XS pink jersey who keeps standing up?
For $5 more, Miami Dolphins fans can have it made in the shade [Miami Herald]
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