Category: News

Make fun of me all you want, I think this treasure map feature is pretty damn slick. You can choose from other styles but they aren’t as cool as a treasure map.

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The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s supplemental homicide data provide information regarding the age, sex, and race of the murder victim and the offender; the type of weapon used in the murder; the relationship of the victim to the offender; and the circumstance surrounding the incident. Data gleaned from these supplemental data are provided in this section.

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Does nobody read your tweets? Don’t have any followers? Project them on to a seven story building and maybe people will read them.

Using the “Social Graffiti” system, anyone can digitally tag Twitter messages with @digmGraffiti to be projected onto Nesbitt Hall. Drexel seniors Matthew Morton and Chad Porche then combine the tweets with their own animations (shot in 1080p HD), and broadcast the images onto Nesbitt via a projector located on the fourth floor of a building across the street.

A short entry – AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts to cap the underwater flow of oil, landfall is becoming more frequent, and the effects more evident.

I can think of at least one hospital that I am never going to go to for surgery…this one. I like how it takes two OR technicians to hold and operate the iPad during surgery.

People who’ve just bought iPads like to show off. I’ve seen two on the London Underground already, even during the crush of rush-hour. But one Japanese doctor’s taken things too far, wheeling out his shiny new Apple gadget during surgery.