Over the weekend residents of Westchester County head a loud thunder-like ‘boom’ which has yet to be explained – and now residents in Nanuet have also been exposed to a similar noise, also with no explanation.
Most of the people interviewed by Newsradio 880 noted that it sounded very much like thunder – although one resident [...]

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Thanks to the magic of video processing, old, shaky, handheld archival video can now be digitally stabilized as if the camera was on a tripod.
The latest famous video to be re-released in stabilized form is this old bigfoot video. Frankly, I think he looked a little more scary in the original – stabilized, his gait [...]

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I scan probably close to 1000 blog headlines a day, and scan about 20 articles – maybe I will actually READ one all the way through.
Today, that article was a story at The Wall Street Journal about how ‘Splurging Is Good For Your Health’.
Note: My wife can stop reading at this point.
In the article, a [...]

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I’ve been on a photography kick lately. Previously I posted my review of the Canon 870 IS, but this week I ordered a Panazonic FZ18 which I will also post a review on.
The FZ18 was hard to resist – its a VERY hot camera, Amazon ran out of stock and has been rotating through its [...]

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Amazon is having a very respectable Blu-Ray Sale, up to 50% off – and many the titles are actually good movies, which is rare for a movie sale.
I am one of those fools who bought an XBox HD-DVD drive add-on. If you haven’t heard, HD-DVD is dead, so its currently a paperweight.
Eventually, I will probably [...]

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A woman changes her clothes on an Asian subway (and shaves her legs).
We could all learn some lessons in multitasking from this power commuter.
Not really all that sfw, much like the pole dancing video I shamelessly posted last month.

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A Lufthansa Airbus A320 passenger jet safely aborted a landing Saturday when winds blew its left wingtip into the ground at touchdown, according to Lufthansa spokeswoman Claudia Lange.
In addition to an unattributed internet video of the entire landing (below), photographer Lars Tretau captured stunning close-in photographs from a different angle which can be found here [...]

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