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- mark 6-29-2006 1:06 am [link] [add a comment]

A Brooklyn filmmaker bicycling to work in the rain was killed yesterday morning when he fell off his bike and tumbled underneath a truck on West Houston Street in Greenwich Village.

Derek Lake fell from his bicycle and rolled under a truck on West Houston Street near La Guardia Place on Monday, and was killed.
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Bicyclist Hurt in Collision With Tow Truck (June 24, 2006)

The victim, Derek Lake, 23, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts who had recently finished directing his first feature, was declared dead at the scene after he was crushed beneath the wheels of a tractor-trailer going west, as it edged alongside a construction site that had narrowed the busy roadway from three lanes to one.

Mr. Lake was the third cyclist since 2005 to be killed on Houston Street, a six-lane crosstown thoroughfare that draws a large number of trucks and has a high number of accidents involving cyclists.

There were 24 fatal accidents involving bike riders last year across the city, the Police Department said.

- bill 6-27-2006 10:15 pm [link] [1 ref] [4 comments]

Black Sun in Denmark:

During spring in Denmark, at approximately one half an hour before sunset, flocks of more than a million European starlings (sturnus vulgaris) gather from all corners to join in the incredible formations shown above. This phenomenon is called Black Sun (in Denmark), and can be witnessed in early spring throughout the marshlands of western Denmark, from March through to the middle of April. The starlings migrate from the south and spend the day in the meadows gathering food, sleeping in the reeds during the night. The best place to view this amazing aerial dance is in the place called "Tøndermarsken," where these pictures were taken (on April 5 from 19.30 to 20.30 local time).
I saw this in Rome and it completely blew my mind. (Yeah, okay, it doesn't take much, but still...)

- jim 6-22-2006 2:05 am [link] [add a comment]

$88 reverse peephole viewer "...developed with the help of the law enforcement industry...." Yikes.

- jim 6-22-2006 2:03 am [link] [add a comment]

YouTube video of a 5 year old who can kick your ass at Dance Dance Revolution.

Linda, I think Ryley might be another natuarl.
- jim 6-15-2006 9:43 am [link] [add a comment]

Mr. Wilson, is this for real?
- jim 6-14-2006 2:03 am [link] [3 comments]

Big brother:

Here's the point. For over a year, Microsoft has planted a program on every modern Windows-powered PC that reported home every day. They don't have an intelligent reason, never mind a good one, for this move. And, they never told anyone that they were doing this.

I guess it must do a darn good job of hiding itself from firewalls and network monitoring tools too since we've only now found out this daily checkup call after tens of millions of PCs have been phoning in for almost a year.

Maybe you can trust your computer, your livelihood, your home finances, your kids' games, everything you do online, to a company that would do that, but you can count me out.

- jim 6-11-2006 6:15 pm [link] [add a comment]

rip cartoonist alex toth / father of space ghost
- bill 6-08-2006 5:51 pm [link] [2 refs] [add a comment]

in case you're buying a dell in ireland, keep in mind that the euro dell web site if fuckall slow
- mark 6-05-2006 7:41 am [link] [add a comment]

vince welnick suicide.
- linda 6-04-2006 6:37 pm [link] [add a comment]

soda play
- julie 6-02-2006 8:05 pm [link] [6 comments]

dont mention the war: " I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right"


- bill 6-02-2006 11:40 am [link] [1 comment]

Painted Rooms
- julie 6-01-2006 1:15 am [link] [2 comments]

Prefab Sprouts
- julie 5-31-2006 6:04 pm [link] [add a comment]

NYC in 2016.
- jim 5-31-2006 5:10 pm [link] [add a comment]