The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. For Wednesday, selections include a $610,000 cup of coffee with Tim Cook, a suggestion that Google’s glasses may catch on despite their goofy look and a theory about the quality of some popular YouTube videos. … Read More
Is your Bug Out Bag Going to Get You Killed?
Having a bag that is overloaded with a lot of stuff you could live without or which more likely couldn’t help you at all, could get you killed. … Read More
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Facebook to delete beheading videos shared by members
Facebook said it will delete beheading videos being shared at the leading social network as it re-evaluates its policy regarding whether such content is acceptable. Wednesday’s move came as a reversal for Facebook, which had been responding to complaints by refusing to intervene since the…
Burmese Buddhist monk Wirathu uses YouTube to spread anti-Muslim hatred to thousands
Thousands watch YouTube videos of 45-year-old ‘Burmese Bin Laden’ who is inciting violence against country’s Muslim minority His name is Wirathu, he calls himself the “Burmese Bin Laden” and he is a Buddhist monk who is stoking religious hatred across Burma. The…
Snow falls: Russian roof jumpers seek thrills, YouTube fame
The idea is certainly appealing for those willing to risk their necks for no reason other than getting an adrenalin rush. But a surprising number of thrill-seekers do this in Russia, some of them caught on camera in the process.Here is a video from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative center of Sakhalin Region in Russia’s Far East. This YouTube video was apparently produced to impress the viewers with the performance of the jumper, who the off-screen commenter claims to be a professional stuntman. The parka-wearing, face-masked fellow does the dread fall no fewer than three times, judging from the video.Video: /files/news/1e/a2/b0/00/original_361522_jumping_1.mxf.flvJumping off the roof into snow can be a collective experience too. In this video, shot not far from the first one in the city of Korakov in the same region, four people leap from a five-story building over the span of several minutes. The girl shooting the video calls them “nuts” and cheers as they plunge into the snow.Video: /files/news/1e/a2/b0/00/original_361558_jumping_3.mxf.flvApparently both videos were taken in early March, shortly after a major blizzard that swept across Russia’s Far East and left plenty of fresh snow in its wake. A couple of meters of it are enough to act as a cushion and relatively safely break a fall even that high.The risky activity is far from being a novelty, but the YouTube videos of it are so far scarce. One can understand why after watching last year’s footage from Magadan, also in Russia’s Far East. It shows clearly how one can get caught by police and detained for public disturbance after a jump, unless he is clever or fast enough.Video: /files/news/1e/a2/b0/00/original_361553_jumping_2.mxf.flv … Read More
Jimmy vs. Jimmy: The late night battle to come
Late night television is like a pleasant backing track, inoffensively lulling you to sleep at night, until every so often it violently scratches and forces you to pay attention to it. Last week, it let out a shriek. Rumors began to fly that NBC was going to oust Jay Leno from “The Tonight Show” and replace him with “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon, a move that will set up a whole new late night landscape. At some point in the not so distant future, the Jimmys Fallon and Kimmel, with their respective cadres of celebrity friends and knack for viral videos, will take over for Leno and Letterman as the dueling supernovas of the late night firmament.The Leno-Letterman rivalry, which, unlike the incipient Fallon-Kimmel rivalry, has a lot of personal animosity behind it, has long since coalesced into a narrative: Leno is popular and a hack. Letterman is popular and not a hack. Leno is the choice of the masses. Letterman is the choice of the slightly more discerning viewer. Leno has a chin. Letterman has irony. Letterman may be on CBS, but Leno is the CBS-type property, hugely popular but no good, the late night equivalent of “Two and a Half Men.”Continue Reading… … Read More
