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Prison Sentences of the Day

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 01:06 PM PDT

- Prison Sentences of the Day


Four former New Orleans police officers charged with shooting unarmed civilians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt to more than 30 years in prison. A fifth, Arthur Kaufman, received six years for his part in a cover-up of the crimes.

“The officers who shot innocent people on the bridge and then went to great lengths to cover up their own crimes have finally been held accountable for their actions. As a result of today’s sentencing, the city of New Orleans can take another step forward,” said Thomas Perez, head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division.

[nola]


Tagged: katrina, prison sentence

Lunchtime Links

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 12:05 PM PDT


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Tagged: Lunchtime Links

Hole-in-One of the Day

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT


Wait for it…

[vvv]


Tagged: hole-in-one

Afternoon Snack

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 11:32 AM PDT


Baby otter delights at going from fluffy to fur-soaked.

[youtube]

Virtual Tour of the Day

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 11:26 AM PDT


Never been to the White House? Behold the next best thing, courtesy the Google Art project and the Google Street View team.

[youtube]


Tagged: google, virtual tour, White House

Google Tease of the Day

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:15 AM PDT


Google sees our future through augmented reality glasses. Prototypes reportedly will be tested in the coming months.

[pcworld]


Tagged: glasses, google

Museum Exhibit of the Day

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 09:50 AM PDT

- Museum Exhibit of the Day


Some 100 plasticized animal specimens make their debut this week at the National History Museum of London as part of Animals Inside Out. The show is quite the large-scale effort — the Asian elephant alone took a team of 30 more than two years and a total of 64,000 hours to prepare. And the exhibit isn’t nearly as creepy as Bodies: The Exhibition, which was created by the same team.

[discovery]


Tagged: animals, museum

Emergency Landing of the Day

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 09:30 AM PDT

- Emergency Landing of the Day


When 80-year-old Helen Collins realized her pilot husband, John, had died Monday while flying their small plane home to Wisconsin, she did what any good wife would do: Collins kept her cool, took the controls, and, with her son’s guidance via radio and a local pilot alongside her wing, landed the plane safely with just one engine.

[ap]


Tagged: Emergency Landing

Record-Breaking Room of the Day

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 09:01 AM PDT

- Record-Breaking Room of the Day


This room, found at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota, holds the Guinness World Record for being the world’s quietest, measuring at -9 decibels. By contrast, the bedroom in which you sleep at night measures about 30 decibels. The room is called an anechoic chamber, which means there is no echo as it absorbs sound. Orfield created the room to test products to make sure they’re not too loud.

[mpr]


Tagged: Guinness Record, room

Street Art of the Day

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 08:17 AM PDT

- Street Art of the Day


Combo, a French street artist, recently took his talents to Chernobyl, where he created a mural of The Simpsons picnicking as Homer’s nuclear power plant looms ominously in the distance. Of note: hundreds of abandoned gas masks amid the debris.

[juxtapoz]


Tagged: Chernobyl, simpsons