I Have No Pants And I Must Scream

Remember when people were conscious enough not to say things like this out loud, knowing that most people would be disgusted? Gee, I wonder what changed? Via Buzzfeed:

When Kansas State’s point guard Angel Rodriguez went to the line, a chant of “Where’s your green card?” rang out through the crowd. (It can be heard at 2 and 17 seconds in the video.) Reporters on the scene identified it as having come from Southern Mississippi’s band. Thankfully it was short lived.

Martha Saunders, president of the University of Southern Mississippi, issued this statement:

“We deeply regret the remarks made by a few students at today’s game. The words of these individuals do not represent the sentiments of our pep band, athletic department or university. We apologize to Mr. Rodriguez and will take quick and appropriate disciplinary action against the students involved in this isolated incident.”

In this video, I cover my experiences with the Mossberg 500 and the Remington 870.

I also describe how I came to carry and use the Remington 870 from the age of 10. My experiences with the Mossberg are more recent.

I’ve been working on this video in my spare time for over a month - I’m not in love with it, but I’m fairly happy with it.

The Tuesday raid was the second on Occupy Miami in the past six weeks. On January 31, Miami-Dade cops evicted protesters from Government Center. This time it was City of Miami police officers that arrived in SWAT vans and emerged with their assault rifles drawn.

“They were pointing guns at children!” says Ramy Mahmoud, one of three Occupy Miami members taken in for questioning and then released without charges.

Mahmoud and other Occupy Miami members were preparing to travel downtown to protest the birthday of Chase Bank CEO Jaime Dimon when at least half a dozen police vehicles screeched to a halt in front of the building on NW Seventh Street.

A cop in a dress shirt and bullet-proof vest jumped out of an unmarked car, aimed his gun at them, and shouted, “Everyone on the ground,” according to Occupy Miami members.

“I thought it was either a joke or he was robbing us,” says an occupier who gave his name only as Cobra. “Then an ice-cream truck full of SWAT officers pulled up.”

“They said that they had gotten a tip that we had “long guns” and were going to use them at our protest,” Occupy member Thomas Parisi told Miami New Times. “But we are a peaceful movement and told them that we had no intention of doing anything like that.”

SonicSpike writes “The Justice Department is defending the government’s refusal to discuss — or even acknowledge the existence of — any cooperative research and development agreement between Google and the National Security Agency. The Washington based advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center sued in federal district court here to obtain documents about any such agreement between the Internet search giant and the security agency. The NSA responded to the suit with a so-called ‘Glomar’ response in which the agency said it could neither confirm nor deny whether any responsive records exist. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington sided with the government last July.”

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The intention of this project is to stress the importance of advancing the space frontier and is focused on igniting scientific curiosity in the general public.

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Ralph Baer is often called the father of video games. His invention, the Magnavox Odyssey, was the first home console system. I photographed and interviewed him this summer as part of my ongoing series on inventors (the book and app for which will be out eventually I promise).

Since he turns 90 years old this week, and this year marks the 40th anniversary of the video game, I chose for this video some bits from our interview in which we talk about, among other things, why he’s still inventing at 90 years old.

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NPR’s Planet Money profiles Willow Tufano, a 14-year-old Florida girl who saved thousands of dollars by harvesting furniture from foreclosed houses and selling it on eBay. She’s just bought half interest in a house that went for $100,000 at the peak of the bubble. Her mom owns the other half, and the house went for $12,000. They rent it out for $700 a month now. Chana Joffe-Walt writes,

One day, Willow’s mom, Shannon, saw a two-bedroom, concrete-block home on auction for $12,000 — down from $100,000 at the peak of the bubble. Shannon was telling her husband about the house, when Willow piped up.

“I was like, ‘What if I bought a house? That would be crazy,’ ” Willow says…

As I was working on this story, I kept thinking that when a 14-year-old kid can buy a house, the market must have hit bottom. I kept saying this to Willow, and she’d sort of vaguely nod.

But it’s hard for Willow to see herself as symbolic of anything. To a 14-year-old kid in Florida, the housing collapse is basically the only world she’s known. It’s the landscape. It’s a Craigslist hobby.

This 14-Year-Old Girl Just Bought A House In Florida (via MeFi)

(Image: Chana Joffe-Walt)

Windows: We’ve shared countless ways to clean up Windows’ context menu, but you can actually add some pretty neat stuff too. Free app Right Click Tweaker adds up to 14 useful features with just a few clicks of your mouse.

Right Click Tweaker doesn’t require much explanation. Just start up the portable app, check the boxes next to the functions you want to add. and press Apply Tweaks. You’ll see those options in Windows’ right-click menu from there on out. The menu items it can add range from handy shortcuts to really useful functions, including:

• Copy To Folder
• Move To Folder
• Open in Notepad
• Administrator Command Prompt
• Encrypt
• Create File List
• Print File List
• Search and Replace
• Copy Content To Clipboard
• God Mode
• Problem Steps Recorder
• Take Ownership
• System Configuration Utility
• Control Panel

Right Click Tweaker is a free download for Windows only. For more info on what each function does, check out their homepage below.

Right Click Tweaker | via AddictiveTips

[Video Link] As I watched this, I kept tilting my head up to see what was coming down the road, but it didn’t work. (Thanks, Felipe Li!)

Spencer Ackerman at Danger Room on reports (utterly shocking reports!) that Afghanistan’s military uses its US-bought aircraft to transport drugs throughout the country.

At a cost of nearly $2 billion for two years’ worth of building the Afghan Air Force, the U.S. inadvertently purchased a more convenient mechanism for trafficking opium and weapons than Afghanistan’s drug lords were previously using. But it actually gets worse than that. The aerial trade in guns and drugs through the Afghan Air Force appears to be financing the rearmament of private militias hedging against the country’s implosion after the U.S. leaves.

Read more: Afghan Air Force: Flying Drug Mules That Fuel Civil War | Danger Room | Wired.com.

Related item at the Wall Street Journal, requires subscription.

Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, in response to the question: “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?”

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PatPending writes with this excerpt from TorrentFreak: “The RetroShare network allows people to create a private and encrypted file-sharing network. Users add friends by exchanging PGP certificates with people they trust. All the communication is encrypted using OpenSSL and files that are downloaded from strangers always go through a trusted friend. In other words, it’s a true Darknet and virtually impossible to monitor by outsiders. RetroShare founder DrBob told us that while the software has been around since 2006, all of a sudden there’s been a surge in downloads. ‘The interest in RetroShare has massively shot up over the last two months,’ he said.”

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