Bill Biggart was on scene when the World Trade Centre towers were hit on September 11, 2001. His pictures of the destruction and the collapse of the first tower are some of the finest taken that horrible day. Biggart never got any pictures of the fall of the second tower because he was killed when it collapsed.
His widow, Wendy, gave Chip East the mangled contents of his camera bag and East managed to salvage shots from the compact flash card from Baggert’s Canon D30 digital camera. The images are stark, haunting and just that much more compelling knowing that the photographer gave his life in pursuit of his art.
Read the story and see the images here.
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Lacking HTML and PHP skills (I know I am). Fear not. Welcome to the hand drawn website.
Be sure to visit the porn section.
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Everybody and his brother has blogged about Krispy Kreme releasing a liquid version of their yummy secret donut taste.
Finally, we have one man’s review of this eagerly awaited refreshment. Did he like it? Not really.
“It was one of the most unpleasant gustatory experiences I’ve endured, and this from a man who ate nine chocolate iced kreme filled at one sitting. Imagine a cup of powdered non-dairy creamer forcibly united with a flavorless slushee, and you pretty much have the idea.”
We only have a couple of KKs in Canada and one of them is about 15 minutes drive from where I work. Far enough that I don’t go out of my way to grab a box but I’ve been known to pounce if someone brings a dozen into the office.
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Transcript of Barack Obama, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois, speech as prepared for delivery at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
I’m not American but if I were, this speech would be reason enough to vote for John Kerry. I watched him deliver this the other night and it struck me with the same force as speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy. The power of Obama’s oration was inspiring.
A few quotes:
+ “If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child. If there’s a senior citizen somewhere who can’t pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it’s not my grandmother. If there’s an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It’s that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. “E pluribus unum.” Out of many, one.”
+ ” The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation; the belief in things not seen; the belief that there are better days ahead. I believe we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. I believe that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us.”
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Remember the Deathstar in the Star Wars movies?
Well NASA’s Cassini probe has found it and it’s a little too close to the Earth for my liking.
It’s been masquerading as one of Saturn’s moons Mimas.
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Back in the 50s and 60s we were so sure that the future was going to be filled with flying cars and robots to do all our menial chores. That future seems to be a bit slow in coming and other things came that weren’t in the futurists’ vision.
The University of California Berkeley has put together images from those heady days here for us to enjoy.
(Via Boing Boing)
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