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What Led Up to the Arrest of a Bombing Suspect – NYTimes.com
What Led Up to the Arrest of a Bombing Suspect – NYTimes.com:
“On Monday, police and federal agents were back. Now, they had photographs of six men. She picked out the one of Mr. Shahzad, the court papers said.
Meanwhile, officials dug through Verizon Wireless records to learn more about the number she provided, one they found was attached to a prepaid phone activated April 16.
Though they declined to say precisely how they tracked such an anonymous number, they established not only that Mr. Shahzad was the buyer of the Pathfinder, but also that he got four phone calls from a Pakistani number associated with him in the hour before he made his final calls to arrange the purchase of the vehicle, according to the papers.”
It’s an interesting article on how the NYPD and FBI found and arrested the Times Square “bomber” in 53 hours.
However, am I the only one who find the fact that they could find the guy buying a prepaid a bit too good for a couple of donut-eating bureaucrats? And why is this more or less the only piece of information they won’t share?
Scouting New York
The author of one of my favorite blogs, Nick Carr from ScoutingNY.com, was interviewed by New York Times’ readers recently. He answers several interesting questions, but it’s still his blog that is most interesting (despite another stupid April Fools joke that was even released a day early).
In general, ScoutingNY.com is one of the best examples of blogs that are interesting because they are written by people who care. I try to do the same here, but finding the style, tone and topics that gives a coherent look and feel to the content is very difficult. Kottke.org, Daring Fireball, marco.org and Frank Chimero are all of the same high quality, and I’m sure every niche has its own examples.
Now, I only wish somebody would make a blog that urged its readers to explore Copenhagen more.
New York City, tilt-shifted
Didde Elnif posted a link to this video of New York, tilt-shifted, which is the best example of how to do video with a tilt-shift lens I’ve ever seen (though the beach videos by Kevin Loutit are nice as well):
/by Sam O’Hare.
Overheard in New York
This is just one example of the pure gold that is found on my new favorite blog, Overheard in New York, suggested by Casper from Spoiled Milk (the blog, not the quote, thankfully).
Cute 18-year-old girl, looking in a mirror: I can’t believe I still have this pimple on my chin.
Older sister: Let me see. Geez, I think it’s getting bigger.
Metrosexual brother: That’s because she shaves her beard with the razor I use for my ass.
via Overheard in New York | The Voice of the City.
Banksy's Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Until October 31st, Banksy is throwing an exhibition in New York called “Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill”.
I went there last weekend, and it was really cool, albeit very odd at the same time.
Just look at this HD-video from NotCot, to get an idea of what the mechanical chicken nuggets, plucked Tweety, sleepy “Leopard”/jacket and TV-watching monkey is like:
NOTCOT: Banksy’s Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill from Jean Aw on Vimeo.
I took some pictures myself which you can see a couple of examples of right here:
The line to get in.
Sign outside.
Tweety.
Leopard/jacket
TV-watching monkey.
More monkey.
A swimming fish stick (!)
Mechanical hotdog.
A bunny with make-up.
Tribute to the site I own with Mathies, Copyblokking.com.
Finally arrived at Bentley College
So, after what seems like an eternity of planning, meetings, visa applications and crazy health forms, I’ve finally arrived at Bentley College for my semester as an exchange student.
Before arriving, however, was a couple of insane days in New York with sightseeing and what have not together with Julie and Tenna, who are also from CBS. Pictures below:
Flying Virgin Atlantic was a great idea; they served food that didn’t look like something from a garbage can and we could have a glass or two of wine as well. They also gave us ice creams later on, and then I’m sold!
We had an idea of this guy being to fat to get a partner, and they must have just given him a horse to ride instead.
My temple.
Making fun of friends who are 4000 miles away is always fun. Half the store laughed at this little “gimmick”.
Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls were quite crazy.
I love this city.
“Your cell-phone babbling is annoying those around with the inanity of your petty problems. Have a nice day.” – true around the world.
Perhaps the world’s best record store?
A slice of cycling culture in New York.
After New York, we went up to Sandown, New Hampshire, to visit Julie’s buddy Hayley. Her father is an active guy in the community, so they have a lot of land that they want to conservate and we went for a very long walk in the woods (perhaps a bit too long, considering the fact that we got lost on the tracks). In their backyard they had a nice pond and waterfall which you can see in the video below:
Just how relaxing is this compared to New York?
In the middle of it all, a bunch of signs was pinned to the ground. I really don’t know why, but I found Mitt!
Hayley cutting the pie and I think Julie is happy about it…
Hayley’s dad took us for a sightseeing, and this is one of the oldest church’s in all of America, built in 1774 (which makes it older than the USA as a nation). Actually, this was also the sight of the very first strike in America; the workers ran out of rum, and wouldn’t continue work before more was provided for them.
Each family would have their own booth for sunday mass (if they were rich enough, that is).
After one night in a terrific home, we went on to Bentley. This is my apartment (which sets me back $4300 for four months…):
The kitchen.
Frederik, who is also a Danish student from CBS, is playing on the football team this semester. Because of that he is quite famous around campus, as it has never happened before that an exchange student has made the team at Bentley.
Out tub, which is around the same size as my whole bathroom at home and one of the reasons why the apartment is so expensive.
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Google Street View kan ikke lide heste
En af de mest fantastiske ting ved Google er deres evne til at lave vanvittige services der giver værdi for mig som bruger, uanset at de må have lydt vanvittige til det indledende møde før de fik det sat i gang.
Fx Google Street View.
“Chef, vi skal lÃ¥ne en van med et 360 graders panorama-kamera pÃ¥ taget og sÃ¥ tager vi billeder af alle gader i de større byer i USA. Er du med pÃ¥ den?”
Det var han så, for det virker og jeg bruger det en del. Fx skulle jeg vise mine to rejsekammerater hvordan et hotel i New York så ud fra fronten, og så fik de da bare lige et link Google Street View:
Grunden til at jeg skriver det her er at Google nu har haft en ny og forbedret van ude og køre, så billederne er temmelig skarpe og man kan nu se vanvittigt langt op af bygningerne (ellers er det heller ikke så sjovt at bruge det på New York). Desuden har Google en helt speciel teknologi der slører ansigterne på folk som måtte komme med på billederne:
Den er Ã¥benbart trænet til at sløre masken pÃ¥ alle væsener der har en mund, næse og to øjne – se bare pÃ¥ hesten her:
Det er mÃ¥ske lige at trække grænsen lidt for langt, men okay – sÃ¥ er der i hvert fald ingen der kan klage!
(via Google Blogoscoped)