A San Francisco woman was allegedly attacked and robbed for wearing Google Glass in a bar on Friday night. Sarah Slocum told local CBS affiliate KPIX that as she was demonstrating Google's device for another patron, two women angrily confronted her. Soon after, a man at the bar tore Glass off of her face, though she later retrieved the $1,500 Explorer Edition unit. According to Slocum, video footage taken with Glass shows the incident and the perpetrator's face. Unfortunately, her smartphone, purse, and wallet were also stolen during the ordeal — apparently by the thief's friends — and those items haven't yet turned up. "I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed because of some wanker Google Glass haters," she later wrote on Facebook. One of the assailant's friends accused Slocum (and presumably other Glass users) of "destroying the city," according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
Exactly what led up to the violence is a bit unclear. KPIX5 spoke to numerous witnesses who were at Molotov's bar on Friday; they said Slocum was "very friendly" and that several people were genuinely interested in seeing Glass firsthand. But one man — who offered only his first name — seemed to imply that Slocum should have known better. "Brian" described Molotov's typical clientele as "not tech-oriented" and said the dive is "one of the more punk rock bars in the city." "It's not Google Glass country," he told reporter Joe Vazquez. Brian was quick to admit that no one had any right to victimize Slocum for the simple act of wearing Glass, but said "a level of tact in that type of establishment might have behooved her."
Another witness said that Slocum was "running around very excited" as closing time approached. "I think everybody was just upset that she would be recording outside of a bar this late with obviously embarrassing behavior going on around her, and just rather insulted that someone thinks it's OK to record them the entire time they're in public." Just last week, Google sought to get in front of the Glass etiquette debate with a list of best practices for using the device. Google says that Explorers shouldn't "wear it and expect to be ignored," but obviously Slocum got more than she bargained for in that respect. Slocum said she has since turned her video evidence over to local police, and at least one employee on the Google Glass team has reached out to her for more details.
TwistedLamb is riding in the Mongol Derby, the longest toughest horse race in the world. The horse race takes place in Mongolia where we follow Ghengis Khans postal route on semi-wild horses. For more information visit my gofundme page and watch my progress as I build thighs of steel for this epic race.
The Multnomah Whisk{e}y Library (The Library) is a bar centered around access to over 1,500 spirits, which are served table-side via carts, in either pure or crafted cocktail form. The overall old classic library meets British lounge design concept works in accordance with The Library's highly curated and education-based spirit & food service with traditionally classic leather, brass, rich textures, letter-pressed paper items, and brushed linen edges.
"You want to photograph me eating chicken?" "Yep." "Well, if I let you, I need you to help me deliver a message." "What’s that?" "I work at this library. And before that, I was coming here for twenty years. It’s my favorite place in the world. As many people know, the main reading room of this library is supported by seven floors of books, which contain one of the greatest research collections in the world. Recently, the library administration has decided to rip out this collection, send the books to New Jersey, and use the space for a lending library. As part of the consolidation, they are going to close down the Mid-Manhattan Library Branch as well as the Science, Industry, and Business Library. When everything is finished, one of the greatest research libraries in the world will become a glorified internet cafe. Now read that back to me."
Success is always a mixed blessing. Kurt Cobain epitomized it and knew it, always identified with “our little group [who] has always been and always will until the end.”
What were all those stories I kept reading last year, about how now that the sci-fi conventions have gotten...
George W. Bush's private experiments with art became embarrassingly public last year when hacker Guccifer broke into the Bush family's personal data and managed to unearth some of the former president's awkward bathroom self portraits. Now, with Guccifer apparently behind bars, Bush is looking to put a positive face on his hobby by unveiling it in an art exhibition.
The show will be called The Art of Leadership: A President's Personal Diplomacy, and will showcase more than two dozen portraits painted by the president, along with artifacts and photos from his presidency. The exhibition will open in April, and, according to the George W. Bush Institute, "will explore the relationships that President George W. Bush forged with world leaders to shape international policy and advance American interests abroad." Presumably, that means less nudity.
have only had jeppson's, but letherbee's gin is very good.
Perhaps it was inevitable that some enterprising soul would come up with a competitor to the strange bitter Swedish drink that Chicago loves to hate. Letherbee's R. Franklin Original Recipe Malort, released earlier this year exclusively at the Violet Hour, is now available in bottles at liquor stores around the city.
“I don’t expect to be in the room or will I do anything to prevent you from obtaining a contraceptive. However, once a child does exist in your womb, I’m not going to assume a right to kill it just because the child’s host (some refer to them as mothers) doesn’t want it.”
attn overbey: the lord has chosen a future seahawk for you
One NFL hopeful is taking a different approach to the league, claiming God told him to leave the combine.
Prospective NFL players are doing everything they can to be noticed at the scouting combine in Indianapolis, but one player has removed himself from the event.
San Diego State running back Adam Muema left citing "religious reasons," claiming he was told by God that if he elected not to work out he would ultimately play for the Seattle Seahawks, according to a report from UT San Diego.
Muema will be available during San Diego State's Pro Day in March and teams will not see the projected mid-round running back before that time. He believes he's received a message, but it's hard to see where he'll slot in on a team already boasting Marshawn Lynch and 2013 second-round pick Christine Michael.
The report links Muema to "Lord Ray-El" a man claiming to be the second coming of Christ.
The 2014 Winter Olympics are over and we're all crying a little inside. One bear is taking it a little harder than most and was standing in the middle of the stadium to show it.
Awwwww! We'll miss you too Sochi. From your swelling vistas to double toilets, your roaming dogs and soaring athletic competition. There's a little Sochi in all of us now and we have you to thank, Winter Olympics.
Heartwarming or totally creepy? We're going with the latter. Coincidentally this is the EXACT same thing that happens when you put Ten by Pearl Jam in a Teddy Ruxpin, except the fluid is clear, smells like industrial lubricant and accompanied by a vague scent of an impending electrical fire .
1. Write about subjects you like.
2. Attend any performance you are writing about.
3. Hugs are mandatory, so interview people you want to hug.
4. Less than 90% of each article should be Google-able facts.
Benedict Cumberbatch has said that he felt like a "boobie" in his motion capture suit for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, but how did he actually look? This video shows us how Weta translated Cumberbatch's performance into the CG-animated Smaug.
List of new or revised Library of Congress subject headings approved by the editorial meeting of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Policy and Standards Division on February 10, 2014.
With former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on the run, curious citizens and journalists treated themselves to a tour of his luxurious and now vacant residence near Kiev.
Located in Novi Petrivtsi (an hour drive from the capital), the once heavily secured, 345-acre estate was opened by his detractors over the weekend. Visitors discovered a golf course, helicopter pad, live animals, statues, and a five-floor mansion.
Yanukovich has a working-class background. So the opulence of his new digs took visitors by surprise. One man, while touring the grounds, told Reuters, "we did not expect anything like this," adding, "it really is too much for one person. It's very emotional when you see something like this."
Another said, "a normal person doesn't build this sort of stuff."
Yanukovich bought the first piece of land on what became his massive estate in 2010, turning it into a secret palace of sorts that only family and close friends (as well as thousands of security guards, according to locals) were allowed to enter.
An arrest warrant was issued for mass murder against the fugitive president this morning by Ukrainian authorities.
People look through windows of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich as anti-government protesters and journalists walk on the grounds in the village Novi Petrivtsi, outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
People look through windows of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
A man holds a bottle as anti-government protesters and journalists walk on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence, February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
A man stands inside a lavatory on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence, February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
Anti-government protesters react on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence in the village Novi Petrivtsi, outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
A man takes pictures on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich, February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
Anti-government protesters and journalists walk on a helipad at the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich in the village Novi Petrivtsi, outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
A man plays golf as on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich, February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
A man takes a picture of a golf bag on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich, February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
Anti-government protesters and journalists look at ostriches kept within an enclosure on the grounds of the residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich in the village Novi Petrivtsi, outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
Anti-government protesters and journalists walk on the grounds of the residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
An anti-government protester takes pictures on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
Anti-government protesters and journalists walk on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich in the village Novi Petrivtsi outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
A man poses for a picture on the grounds of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich's residence outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
A man takes pictures on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich in the village Novi Petrivtsi, outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
Anti-government protesters gather by the entrance to the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich, February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
People walk on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
Anti-government protesters and journalists walk on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence, February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was released from jail on Saturday, after ousted president Viktor Yanukovich fled Kiev. The opposition leader has announced that she will run for president, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has already welcomed her back to the public stage. (Tymoshenko supports integrating Ukraine into the European Union.) But some fear her return to politics, claiming she's just as corrupt as Yanukovich. Edward Lucas, a senior editor at The Economist, insists, "The truth is that her determination is terrifying. Nobody and nothing gets in her way. When she needs to, she is prepared to use her undeniable sexual magnetism."
In the same Daily Mail column, Lucas warns, "don't be fooled by [Tymoshenko's] angelic looks." He continues, "I have interviewed her many times. Her body language, eyes, coquettish tosses of the head and cooing tones are almost hypnotic. But she is also capable of explosive anger. I have seen her shriek and curse in terrifying eruptions of rage: the kitten turns into a tigress." Lucas uses almost every sexist cliche imaginable about powerful women in an attempt to discredit her. According to him, Tymoshenko "believes in horoscopes and psychics," is "prone to irrational, often self-aggrandising flights of fancy" and can't work in a team. "Aides and colleagues are expected to guess what she wants and do it. If they get it wrong, she erupts," he writes. She apparently even uses her womanhood to scare men:
An ambassador once told me that a two-hour journey he spent in her sound-proofed, tinted-window limousine was the most sexually threatening experience of his life.
Lucas isn't the only one to come up with these criticisms, though his column is the most egregious example. The Daily Beast's Christopher Dickey agrees that Tymoshenko is "no angel." He argues, "there’s no doubt that the fire of a hugely ambitious politician still burns hot behind the iconic face and hair of the fairy tale princess."
Tymoshenko didn't always have her signature blonde hair folded into halo braids — before she became prime minister, she was brunette. But in consultation with a PR firm, Tymoshenko developed her look to represent the softer, more feminine Urkranian woman. Her hairdo alludes to patriotism and sainthood. It was a calculated political move, sure, but one she felt she had to make to succeed as a woman in Ukraine's political sphere. As Dickey explains, she was a "hard-bitten ice queen" before the transformation. Welcome to 2014, where female leaders are either frigid or sexually dangerous.
In 1995, in Chicago, Bezos manned an Amazon booth at the annual conclave of the publishing industry, which is now called BookExpo America. Roger Doeren, from a Kansas City store called Rainy Day Books, was stopped short by Amazon’s sign: “Earth’s Biggest Bookstore.” Approaching Bezos, he asked, “Where is Earth’s biggest bookstore?”
“Cyberspace,” Bezos replied.
“We started a Web site last year. Who are your suppliers?”
“Ingram, and Baker & Taylor.”
“Ours, too. What’s your database?”
“ ‘Books in Print.’ ”
“Ours, too. So what makes you Earth’s biggest?”
“We have the most affiliate links”—a form of online advertising.
Doeren considered this, then asked, “What’s your business model?”
Bezos said that Amazon intended to sell books as a way of gathering data on affluent, educated shoppers. The books would be priced close to cost, in order to increase sales volume. After collecting data on millions of customers, Amazon could figure out how to sell everything else dirt cheap on the Internet. (Amazon says that its original business plan “contemplated only books.”)
Afterward, Doeren told his partner at Rainy Day Books, Vivien Jennings, “I just met the world’s biggest snake-oil salesman. It’s going to be really bad for books.”
George Packer’s epic 12,000-word piece on Amazon and the publishing industry in the current issue of TheNew Yorker is full of memorable reported bits—the cultur
'The Kyiv Post reports that acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced on his Facebook page this morning that Mr. Yanukovych and “other [former] government officials” are wanted for “mass killings of civilians.'
Ukraine's new leaders issued an arrest warrant for Yanukovych, who was impeached on Saturday and is on the run. The charges are linked to recent deadly violence in Kiev.
Although this is not a piece of code, I suggest that you took a look at this sheer madness — a screenshot of the very last scene in 2010 Unthinkable, with the hands belonging to an elite forces agent who is defusing an A-bomb by… typing rubbish into MS Excel on Macintosh.
To me, this spoiled the whole positive impression I had got about the movie
"suck it, fantasy maps more story on this thing than a 64-page splatbook got a goddamn cleric charming a satyr serpent-tongued lions giant fucking mountains in the middle of a desert saints straight chilling in the desert with wild beasts and lonely people, feeding lions near underground caches of treasure and shit monasteries on islands in the middle of the Nile"
L'Ancienne Thebaide, ou, la Carta generale des lieux habitez par les Ss. peres des deserts French Map of the Holy Land (1738) Date: 1738 Author: Nicolas de Fer Dwnld: Full Size (9.04mb) Source: Library of Congress Print Availability: See our Prints Page for more details pff This map isn't part of any series, but we have other maps of the Middle East that you might want to check out. De...
The basic canvas wall tent, used by outdoor enthusiasts and the military for hundreds of years, can be turned into more than a tent with the simple addition of a wooden platform. My family has some property in a beautiful meadow with mountain views and we are looking to put up a canvas wall tent on a wooden floor to use for guest camping and enjoying the summer nights. Research for these tents has turned up some fantastic photos of what can be created with these portable but heavy duty structures.
Photo by David Ellis Canvas Products
Wall tents are different than tipis and in that they have four sides and a peaked roof, much like a tiny house. Canvas wall tents have been used by the military as early at 1740 and were used extensively in the American Civil War. Hunters and trappers in the 1800′s used wall tents while on the frontier and they are still used today as shelters in refugee camps and by soldiers in Iraq.
Photo by David Ellis Canvas Products
Canvas wall tents range in size from about 8-10 feet wide and 10-20 feet long. They can be supported with a simple wood frame, steel poles or traditional timber poles cut down on site. The walls are typically 5-6 feet high. Some canvas tents are large enough to contain a wood burning stove and the canvas roof can include a hole for a stove pipe. Furniture, carpets and even wall hangings can be used for interior decoration.
Photo by Yellowstone Under Canvas
Canvas wall tents can actually be mounted to a hard surface deck. This keeps the tent from being blown away and damaged in the wind and also keeps out unwanted outdoor critters. These types of tents are called deck tents and can be secured even further with cable systems that tie the tent down to the deck.
Photo by 1859 Oregon Magazine
Because of their sturdy construction and ability to let in fresh air while protecting campers from the elements, many canvas wall tents have become popular for glamping enthusiasts. The tents can be enjoyed in the summer and fall and then packed up and put away when winter arrives.
TwistedLamb is riding in the Mongol Derby, the longest toughest horse race in the world. The horse race takes place in Mongolia where we follow Ghengis Khans postal route on semi-wild horses. For more information visit my gofundme page and watch my progress as I build thighs of steel for this epic race.
People look through windows of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich as anti-government protesters and journalists walk on the grounds in the village Novi Petrivtsi, outside Kiev February 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin)
Associated Press 
L'Ancienne Thebaide, ou, la Carta generale des lieux habitez par les Ss. peres des deserts French Map of the Holy Land (1738) Date: 1738 Author: Nicolas de Fer Dwnld: Full Size (9.04mb) Source: Library of Congress Print Availability: See our Prints Page for more details pff This map isn't part of any series, but we have other maps of the Middle East that you might want to check out. De...
