Change Khongan from Hosein J.Gowhari on Vimeo.
Via @bibliodyssey, I think.
What hath craigslist wrought?
This:
Obviously led to this:
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A tugboat reads CL and gets confused – even though the missed connection clearly refers to one of the Moran tugs, Miss Stacy is overcome and throws herself at the Portsmouth side of the Memorial Bridge. (You can follow the bridge on Twitter – @psmithbridge.)
News note of community interest
There’s currently a big move underway in Portsmouth (NH). The center lift span of the Memorial Bridge is scheduled to be floated off sometime withing the next 72 hours. The bridge has been closed (structural deficiencies) for months – a new one is on tap with a completion date in 2014. You can watch a web cam here; I’m going to head into town tonight to take some pictures. For folks who don’t know the area, the tide really moves through this section of the river. I imagine they’re going to do the fine positioning of the barge Cape Cod at high tide and let the going tide help float her away.
1-31-07, 5 years on
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The 2007 Boston bomb scare occurred on January 31, 2007 when the Boston Police Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards resembling the Mooninite characters in the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force found throughout Boston, Massachusetts and the surrounding cities of Cambridge and Somerville as improvised explosive devices. *
I don’t see a lot of improvement in the threat assessments DHS, the cops, etc. are doing.