Engadget has a video of the recently announced Canon EOS 7D. In the video, you get to witness the camera’s 8 fps shooting mode and the new 19-point autofocus. Pretty cool. I want!
iPhone user unloads I-Gun on traffic
August 17, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
This is absolutely hilarious.
You can get the iPhone app here [iTunes link].
Stop-motion video shows how a Macworld magazine cover is made
August 10, 2009 @ 2:14 pm
Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo.
Peter Belanger created this stop-motion video that shows just how much work goes into created a Macworld magazine cover. The video goes from shooting, to editing, and then to production and finally to the final product which is a print version of the magazine cover. [via]
This video just made me really miss working at a magazine.
10 years since Columbine
April 20, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
It was 10 years ago today that the high school massacre at Columbine occurred, and not surprisingly, there’s a new younger generation who know nothing about it or that it even happened.
Last week, USAToday published an article that effectively laid to rest many of the assumptions that the public was led to believe immediately following the massacre. The killers were not bullied (in fact, they were the bullies themselves), they weren’t part of the so-called “Trenchcoat Mafia”, and it wasn’t violent video games that caused them to shoot up their school.
Here’s a rather chilling detail from the article:
What’s now beyond dispute — largely from the killers’ journals, which have been released over the past few years, is this: Harris and Klebold killed 13 and wounded 24, but they had hoped to kill thousands.
The pair planned the attacks for more than a year, building 100 bombs and persuading friends to buy them guns. Just after 11 a.m. on April 20, they lugged a pair of duffel bags containing propane-tank bombs into Columbine’s crowded cafeteria and another into the kitchen, then stepped outside and waited.
Had the bombs exploded, they’d have killed virtually everyone eating lunch and brought the school’s second-story library down atop the cafeteria, police say. Armed with a pistol, a rifle and two sawed-off shotguns, the pair planned to pick off survivors fleeing the carnage.
As a last terrorist act, a pair of gasoline bombs planted in Harris’ Honda and Klebold’s BMW had been rigged apparently to kill police, rescue teams, journalists and parents who rushed to the school — long after the pair expected they would be dead.
The pair had parked the cars about 100 yards apart in the student lot. The bombs didn’t go off.
Oh, and that story of a girl getting shot point-blank in the head after responding ‘yes’ to whether or not she was a Christian…yeah, that never happened according to the FBI.
Letter from Binghamton shooter to TV station
April 7, 2009 @ 1:38 am
A recent post on MeFi includes a downloadable PDF of the 2-page letter written by Jiverly Wong which forecasts the shootings he executed on April 3, 2009 in Binghamton, NY.
The letter was dated March 18, 2009 which means that Jiverly Wong had more than 2 weeks to plan and think about how he would end his own life and cause the death of 13 others at the American Civic Association. The letter is haunting and gives a peek into the mind of a very disturbed man who seemed to have no more hope in the people around him.
The letter was postmarked the same day as the shootings and was sent to a TV station in Syracuse, NY.
If the PDF gets taken down from the MeFi link, you can download the letter from Megaupload.
Fatal shooting at Binghamton
April 3, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
Just hours ago there was a fatal shooting in Binghamton, NY at the American Civic Association, an immigration service center. No official word yet on the number of casualties, but police are saying that there are several deaths and up to 40 hostages.
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