Posted by Kevin Huffman
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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Last year, I wrote that Bill had this (let’s be honest) evil-genius style plan to weaken hurricanes before they make landfall. Sounded a bit fantastical at the time, but as it turns out, there are real scientists ready to rock and roll with these things. They’re so serious they even put together a video . The idea is really pretty simple: by pumping warm surface water to the cool depths of the ocean, the temperature at the surface can be reduced by a few degrees, which is apparently all it takes to weaken a hurricane. [via Gizmodo ]
Posted by Kevin Huffman
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
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The story goes that a group of thieves cut a hole in a Best Buy roof, repelled down, snatched $26k worth of Apple notebooks, and climbed back up. They did all this without touching the floor or setting off any alarms, too. This isn’t the plot of Ocean’s 15 either. This happened for real at the South Brunswick New Jersey location yesterday. Just imagine the amount of planning it took to pull this off. They had to know the exact location of the goods, along with the type of security employed by the store. They had to know inventory status and what store to hit. I have to admit that I worked out several sophisticated “what-if” burglary schemes in my head during my six years at a Circuit City, but none of them involved rappelling equipment. Maybe I need to think bigger in life. NJ.com , “High level of sophistication,” said Detective James Ryan, a police department spokesman. “They never set off any motion sensors. They never touched the floor. They rappelled in and rappelled out.”
Posted by Kevin Huffman
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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HTC seemed pretty confident that the HTC Desire and HTC Legend weren’t US-bound when we talked to them at Mobile World Congress. But hey, things change — right? Boy Genius Report has just received word that the two handsets are bound for this side of the ocean, along with details on which carriers might be nabbing them. Read the rest at MobileCrunch