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CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called “Ocean’s Deadliest” when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.
“He came on top of the stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart,” said Stainton, who was on board Irwin’s boat at the time.
Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.
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The Movie I’ve Seen the Most
What movie have you seen the most? That’s the question Slate asked a collection of filmmakers and critics, knowing that what’s addictive is different than what’s deemed the best.
Spike Lee, director, Inside Man : West Side Story. Adam McKay, director, Anchorman : Election Paul Schrader, writer, Taxi Driver : Pickpocket. Liev Schreiber, director, Everything Is Illuminated : Citizen Kane. Laura Ziskin, producer, Spider-Man : All the President’s Men Peter Farrelly, director, There’s Something About Mary : Something Wild Judd Apatow, director, The 40-Year-Old Virgin : Bottle Rocket Phillip Lopate, editor, American Movie Critics : From the Silents Until Now Albert Maysles, cinematographer, Gimme Shelter : Rocco and His Brothers. Tony Hendra, actor, This Is Spinal Tap : Dr. Strangelove. Michael Sragow, critic, the Baltimore Sun : The Wild Bunch Jake Kasdan, director, Orange County : Ghostbusters Jonathan Rosenbaum, critic, Chicago Reader : Jacques Tati’s Playtime Steven Kloves, writer, Harry Potter movies : Summer of ‘42 Kathleen Kennedy, producer, Munich : Doctor Zhivago Stacy Peralta, director, Dogtown and Z-Boys : Sexy Beast
L.A. police turn to an adhesive GPS dart to lasso the getaway car
Virginia-based company StarChase has proposed a safer way to catch fast- moving crooks—shoot GPS homing devices like darts and stick them to the back of fleeing vehicles. Instead of a frantic pursuit, an officer eases off the chase and lets police headquarters track the suspect by computer. Police can then move in for a calmer arrest. read the full story here
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Toyota Workers Assemble Giant England Flag from cars
New Guinness World Record: 136 Ferraris in Suances (Spain)
The Cantabrian locality of Suances (Spain) celebrated VII the Concentration of Ferrari this weekend and reserved the small piece in the history of the automobiles by breaking Guinness world record for being the lucky place where 136 Ferraris have been concentrated. There were around 20 different Ferrari models, from the classic ones to the last vehicles designed by the mark, among them “Enzoâ€?. In this new concentration participants came from France, Portugal and Belgium, as well as from different parts of Spain, from Malaga, Cadiz, Barcelona, Castilla and Leon, Galicia… According to one comment in Forocoches.com some of the participants had everything: a Ferrari Enzo, Ferrari F40, Ferrari 612 Scaglietti or 575 Ferrari Maranello and some classics like the Ferrari 330 2+2 GT or a Ferrari Dino 246 GT Joist. Impressive.
BOSS crams USB, SD and Bluetooth into a car stereo
Someone Hacked a Mac Mini Into the Toyota Prius Dash
http://www.kusnetz.net/prius/ has more pics, and details of the installation procedure (0)