I’m Literally, Literally Reading a Blog
For all of us grammer Nazis who get all offended when people use the English language incorrectly, there’s a new blog just for us.
Literally, a Web Log covers press conferences, newspaper reports and other errata that incorrectly use the term “literally”. Like “I literally love this!”, or “I can literally taste that chicken from here.”
Maybe reading this will reduce the urge to go on a grammer rant in the forums literally every time someone sucks at language.
Felon Escapes From Police Onto Kennesaw State Campus
Today at around 3:30pm, a felon escaped from police custody at the Waffle House across the street from Kennesaw State University. He was being transported from Orlando, Fl to Tennessee when he broke loose from the officer and managed to get out of his handcuffs. From there, he ran on to Campus.
Apparently he was spotted, or the police dogs tracked him to (I’m getting conflicting stories) the wooded area next to the science building. Which is where I have my classes. By luck, I wasn’t in the building, I was a couple of buildings away.
Then came the lock down. We were ushered into the nearest buildings and locked inside, and crisis management teams were posted at the entrances.
From my own point of view, Kennesaw’s response to the situation was quick and appropriate. They cleared the outside of the buildings of students to allow the police dogs and choppers to work more efficiently while ensuring the students’ safety. The parking garages were the most dangerous places the students could go, so they prevented us from leaving campus.
Granted, there were some hiccups in the system. Whatever the reason, some of the students were allowed to leave before the “all clear”. I myself was allowed to leave the building I was in and wasn’t stopped until I headed for the Science building. No one even told me the situation until I asked a student what all the helicopters were for, despite my passing a crisis management team on my out of a building.
Once the all clear signal was given, it took another 45 minutes to actually get off campus. In this case, it was because the police were searching all of the cars for the felon. We were given a visual inspection, and anyone driving a car was required to open his trunk.
Of course, being a suburb of Atlanta, there was plenty of news coverage, and news choppers were flying overhead during the entire incident, proving a constant droning soundtrack during the situation. Fortunately, that means that you have plenty of other stories to read, so you don’t have to take my word for it.
Bob Ross Radio
BobRoss.fmRemember listening to Bob Ross talking about happy trees? Remember that sense of peace and calm? Well, now you can experience it again. BobRoss.fm broadcasts Bob Ross talking 24/7. So you can use it to relax after that hectic drive home, or use it to fall asleep, or use it to paint your own landscape scene. Whatever you like.
Calmly.
Rapidstack – For Searching Rapidshare, Of Course
This is one of those strange finds that happens when I’m thinking about starting a new project. I was downloading something from Rapidshare and I thought to myself “I wonder if I could scour the web for Rapidshare links? See what’s out there, and what not.” Yes, I talk to myself like I’m in a Sherlock Holmes novel.
Anyway… the point is that I searched to see if someone had already made and app to search for Rapidshare links and, in fact, someone had. I found Rapidstack, a nice ajax-driven search engine. It even claims that it weeds out all of the dead links before displaying the results. I’ve had no problems with any of the links I’ve found, so I’d have to say that it does its job.
It has left me wanting something more, though. Because of Google Analytics, I’m now addicted to graphs. Pretty pretty graphs. I can only imagine what the graphs of keywords from Rapidshare links would look like.
Twisten.fm Lets You Listen to What Others Are Twittering About
Yet another music service using Grooveshark (or by Grooveshark… yes definitely by them). This one trolls Twitter updates looking for Tinysong links, and gives you a convenient play button so you can just start listening without navigating away.
It’s a great way to discover new music. That is, it will be until Twitter becomes so mainstream that all those people from Myspace start using it. Then it’s back to looking for needles in haystacks. Or just back to Last.fm.
March 09 Snowfall
It’s only a couple of days before Spring Break and it’s snowing outside. I mean, really snowing. Here are some of the more interesting photos I took a couple of hours ago.
March 09 Snowfall by Christian Blades is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
The Douche Card – Tell Someone You Care
Looking for a simple, elegant way to tell someone exactly how you feel?
Can’t bring yourself to say it out loud? Or just want that couple of extra seconds to run away before the muscle-bound jock realizes he wants to punch you? Give him the douche card.
$5 for 25
[Via Cool Materials]