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Wil Wheaton sums it up best -- Penny Arcade's
Child's Play,
as posted previously, has been completely ignored by the media, despite donating over US$200,000 worth or toys and cash to a local children's hospital. 11,100 news items on violence in video games, 3 news items on video gamers opening their hearts and wallets.
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 12:05 AM on January 5, 2004
(78 comments)
Seattle PI have picked up the news that there's now competition in the race to build a space elevator.
Liftport are the new kids on the block, with a website that only went online about 24 hours ago. I'm watching them build the
message board as I type. Nothing like a bit of uplifting science news (pun unavoidable).
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 6:58 PM on March 18, 2003
(14 comments)
Highlift Systems may have found a better location for their space elevator in Perth, Australia. Calm waters, few thunderstorms, not too far from the equator, international airport. (
Slashdot discussion) I live in Perth, so I'm excited about the prospect, but
our current premier may need a little prod.
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 5:04 PM on February 16, 2003
(8 comments)
Ages back there was a link, here at MeFi, to a project aimed at creating a DVD full of PC demos from back in the day. Well,
they've finished. (They say if you pre-order now you'll get it in time for Christmas.)
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 12:51 AM on November 26, 2002
(3 comments)
Air pistols cause security alert. "TWO Norwegian schoolchildren caused a security alert at a Scottish airport after boarding a flight home with an air pistol in their luggage, police said. Passengers on board the Norwegian-based Braathens Airways flight were evacuated from the aircraft minutes before take off, an airport spokesman said." I remember getting a simple plastic water pistol (one of the hollow-squeeze things) at a carnival in the UK when I went there on holiday and I had to unpack my hand luggage after it showed up as a six-shooter on the Xray. I don't recall that event making it to the international news feeds.
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 8:18 PM on September 24, 2001
(5 comments)
Insurance companies - what are they good for? Absolutely nothing. Now that a war might be on its way "underwriters had given notice they would cancel cover for war liabilities from midnight Monday". Tell me again why airlines were paying for cover for losses due to war during peace time?
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 12:06 AM on September 21, 2001
(6 comments)
Were more planes ready to be taken over? This doesn't appear to have been posted yet, so here it is. "The [Chicago] Tribune reported that one source said the FBI was "very interested" in passengers whose names appeared on the manifests of several other flights that were already in the air when the first attacks occurred. None of the passengers in which investigators have expressed interest reappeared when flights resumed late last week, the Tribune reported."
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 8:32 PM on September 18, 2001
(6 comments)
10 police officers found. I hope this isn't another mistake, but "A report just in says ten police officers missing since the collapse of the World Trade Centre buildings have been found alive under the rubble." Post details as you find them.
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 10:02 PM on September 13, 2001
(9 comments)
US air space open again, sort of. But the FAA later revealed that all foreign carriers -- except for Canadian airlines and planes diverted during the crisis -- were barred from landing here. US airlines, meanwhile, were allowed to bring in flights from overseas airports if they met the new airline security rules, which were being hidden from the public.
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 8:42 PM on September 13, 2001
(2 comments)
Calling up reserves? The Pentagon is considering a call up of army reservists for the first time since the Gulf War. (The last call up was in January 1991 when more than 265,000 reservists were placed on stand-by for active duty.)
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 8:11 PM on September 13, 2001
(31 comments)
World wide "lock-down" of major parts of major cities. The Malaysian government has detained without trial several Islamic extremists, checkpoints were set up outside the Citibank Tower and Asian-Pacific Financial Tower in Hong Kong, the CN Tower in Toronto was shut, Downing Street was evacuated because a suspect package had been found inside No 10. (The alert was called off within minutes.) Etc, etc, etc.
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 11:21 PM on September 12, 2001
(2 comments)
Planes over London will be shot down, warns government. The UK government warned that any plane venturing into airspace over central London was likely to be shot down. All aircraft movements over the heart of the capital are banned until further notice. The flight path into London-Heathrow airport passes close to the Canary Wharf skyscraper in the east of the city and along the River Thames over the House of Parliament, the Guardian newspaper reports. (Down the page a ways.)
posted to MetaFilter by krisjohn
at 11:16 PM on September 12, 2001
(3 comments)
