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Ray Kelly Will Shoot You Down

Air passengers flying into LaGuardia or JFK, take note: New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly told 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley on Sunday that the New York City police department has both equipment and trained personnel to shoot down a plane over New York in case of another terrorist plane threat.

“In an extreme situation, we would have some means to take down a plane,” Kelly said on Sunday night’s broadcast.

After the show aired, sources told the New York Post that the weapon is a Barret .50 caliber rifle, which can be mounted on almost any police chopper. The weapon, according to the Post sources, is stored in an NYPD safe and is deployed only for “special occasions,” such as when the president is in town.

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Project Runway Season 9: Oliver Must Die

An autumn chill crept into the Parsons building as Heidi strutted down the runway in a black frock, telling the designers that while there are only eight sewtestants left, a show at Fashion Week is far from guaranteed for any of them. Schadenfreude, Heidi, is it your middle name? As always, there are spoilers inside, so click, click, click at your own risk! Continue reading →

Microsoftening the Blue Screen of Death

Hidey ho there, computer adventurers! If you’ve been using personal computers for a while, you have probably laid eyes on a Macintosh or two. You may even own one. If you were an early adopter of the Mac, or have used pushed a Mac just a little too far past its breaking point, you have probably seen the “Sad Mac” icon pictured above right. Continue reading →

Inside Rosie O’Donnell’s Pad

Rosie O’Donnell has a new Chicago-based talk show which debuts next month. Her new show is going to be produced at Oprah’s Harpo Studios in Chicago’s west Loop area.

Rosie has moved her family to Chicago, and is under contract to buy a home in Wrigleyville. The six thousand square foot home, pictured here, was offered at 2.5 Million dollars.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Rosie told the audience at a test taping of “The Rosie Show,” which premieres Oct. 10, that she was buying a home in Wrigleyville. According to an audience member, O’Donnell said the seller agreed to include all of the furniture, or else she wouldn’t have bought it. The home has five bedrooms, five-plus baths, a theater room and a 2,000-square-foot roof deck.

Click here for a slideshow of the home’s interior and here for the Realtor’s listing.

Less Content + Higher Prices = People Leaving Netflix

Netflix recently changed its pricing scheme so that those who want both streaming and disk delivery will be charged up to 60% more per month. The accountants at Netflix saw streaming usage and content acquisition costs going up and needed to offset those costs with higher revenues. In what surely could not have been unforeseen consequences a loss of distribution deals at the same time as a price hike has caused some customers to reevaluate their options.

Some facts for your perusal: Continue reading →

Project Runway Season 9: Malls To The Wall

Welcome, shoppers to the Mall of Project Runway. In the eighth episode of season nine, Heidi brings some menz out on the runway, and the designers cringe. Menswear? Oh noes! We cannot do menswear. Menz don’t have boobies and they have men’s business in their crotchal area, which makes the possibility of “crazy crotch” pants ever so much more likely.

Heidi has the sewtestants choose a mayun, and they take this serious. For reals, they think they’re designing for these men. Ohio Oliver is immediately turrified. He likes his models to be hangers, because they are flat chested, and they are not “fat”. Ohio Oliver… I am disappoint, son.

We move to the workroom and once errybody is all arranged, Tim relents and lets the sewtestants know they’re really designing for the menz’s wives, using input from the menz. Oh Tim, you’re such a trickster. it seems that we’re in the Project Runway Mall. Each designer is in a pretend atelier, designing for a real world client. How did they fare? Continue reading →