When I first started reading Ashley Gilbertson’s article about being a photographer in Iraq I was expecting what would seem to be a very biased piece. But the sheer bluntness… the conflict that he went through as he saw the struggle that the troops are having to deal with. The actual writing matched with [...]
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This wasn’t a mass suicide. There wasn’t any warfare going on. But suddenly thousands where dead. Witness reports where shaky and understandably scared. What had struck this remote area. What had caused one of the greatest calamities of the 20th century. Below is that story.
On the morning of [...]
Continue reading about It killed without warning, and without tell tail signs…
Last Sunday the 14th, I took a trip out to the Bonneville Salt Flats for the first time in over a decade to see Speed Week. The two images above come pretty close to summing up the experience, but it is really so much more than cool cars and salt. It’s an otherworldly experience combined [...]
Who ever stated that the Internet was taking over for the view public was speaking right. We’ve already watched videos on YouTube and chuckled. But most are not very good video quality. But I was pleasantly surprised at a slideshow/video done by Kodak. The quality reminds me of watching a special on the History channel, [...]
TOKYO — This story begins with a crime.
Under normal circumstances, there is no reason anyone would want to steal my bike. It’s a basic get-around-town model that cost $150. It was the biggest bicycle a Japanese department store carried and it’s still too small for me. The chain grinds on every rotation, although that may [...]
I’ve spent the last few days reading over stories of Vigilantes taking on Scammers and scamming them into wasting tons of time, and money. The “Scam Baiters” get the scammers to waste money hiring photographers to take pictures of them being ridiculous, paying for shipping of heavily weighted very expensive broken stuff, and anything [...]
Its not often I’ll bother watching a “sappy” video clips. But it is even rarer when I even think about passing it on. But this is both weird, interesting, heartwarming and cool at the same time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSy9W3gIhnQ
Continue reading about Two heads, one body, two different personalities
Martin Rebas spent a bit time, and probably not much trouble to build a huge list of over exaggerations. It may be hard to believe, but these things did happen, and they happen more often then you think. I provided only 2 stories, go and read all of them to leave your head shaking.
A collection [...]
Thus was the beginning of Thomas’ turn to the other side. For 18 months beginning in April 2003, Thomas worked as a “paid asset” for the FBI running a website for identity and credit card thieves from a government-supplied apartment in the tony Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle.From bedrise to bedrest, seven days a week, [...]
Continue reading about FBI coerces a man to become a carder for them. This is his story.
What happened?” My accountant asked last April. He’d been doing my taxes for more than a decade and had seen my annual income rise well into the six figures.
“It looks like you took a . . . “–he worked over his calculator–”98 percent pay cut.”
“Yep, that sounds about right.”
“How did this happen?”
It was quite simple, [...]
