Macworld Keynote in 60 Seconds
I was unfortunately away on business travel when the big Apple Macworld happened last week. I couldn’t watch the keynote live to get all of the juicy new product information, but Mahalo Daily did a wonderful 60 second wrap-up. Sure, I could go and watch the whole thing off of Apple’s Website, but hey - I got enough catching up to do!
Internet animals on strike
in a show of solidarity with the WGA writers
Monday, December 3, 2007
From the Colbert Report Writers!
(From WGA Member and Colbert Report Writer Frank Lesser.)
Good news, guys! In solidarity with the WGA, all the cute internet
animals are going on strike.
Amazing single shot fight scene
This action sequence runs for four minutes and follows one pissed off dude wreaking havoc in a hotel up four flights of stairs, throwing guys off balconies and smashing stuff.
The choreography and stuntsmanship is amazing. If you read through the video details they actually attempted the scene five times over the course of several months to get the perfect take.
Remind me not to get pulled over in Utah
I understand that police officers are under constant stress that they might get shot - but this cop is clearly just an asshole with authority issues. The officer may not have done anything “illegal” in his arrest, but in my opinion it is immoral. This young man with his wife and infant son were clearly no threat. No police record, no previous arrests, with a clear misunderstanding of the speed limit sign.
The cop had the option of simply writing “refuses to sign” on the citation. He decided to arrest the driver instead and clearly tells another officer “he thought he was in charge” so he “got the taser”.
What a gross misuse of authority.
Here is the video from the police cruiser
Seen on BoingBoing:
Driver tasered for refusing to sign traffic ticket
Driver with his family gets pulled over. When officer won’t point out speed limit sign driver was accused of ignoring, driver refuses to sign ticket. Officer shoots man with taser, lets him fall and cut his head, then arrests him.
As the hero explained to a colleague a few minutes later, Massey [the driver] was “making me nervous as hell” by his insistence on being treated as a reasonable adult, rather than behaving like a timid child. “I was like, nah, we ain’t playing this game,” Gardner boasted to the second officer by way of justifying the Taser strike.”Good,” gloated the second tax-fed parasite. “Good for you.”
(Note: I don’t agree that police officers, even the the small minority of bad ones, should be called “tax-fed parasites.” I’m just quoting the blog entry that this video appears in.)
Tesla Motors
The newly launched Mahalo Daily has a video about Tesla Motor’s electric sports car. It does 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds; performs the equivalent of 135 MPG; and average cost of power is less that 2 cents per mile; and it charges in 3 hours.
One question I don’t believe she asks is “how much”.. of which the answer is $98k !
