Hurricane Sandy is headed for the east coast. New York City is shutting down. We're all battening down the hatches, stocking up on nonperishables (I bought Spaghettios), and acquisitive for the best. And we've fabricated a Spotify playlist to accumulate the berth agitation at bay.

The Complete Story of Sandy: a Timeline of Horror and RecoveryThe Complete Story of Sandy: a Timeline of Horror and RecoveryThe Complete Story of Sandy: a Timeline of Horror

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Enjoy, and amuse stay abroad from windows and downed ability lines. Anything abroad you guys are alert to as you anticipate your approaching doom? Let us apperceive below. [Spotify]

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Pictures of rockets, meteors and the Milky Way are all amazing. But one with all three makes for an cutting angel indeed.

This amazing account shows the night sky over Doi Inthanon National Park in Thailand. Within it, you can see the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, aerial surreally. But there's more: just appropriate of center, there's a admirable meteor streak, and just to the larboard of that a ablaze atom which is in fact the ascent Ariane 5 rocket, launched a few account afore from Kourou,French Guiana.

Lucky coincidence? Nope: the angel was timed to accomplishment to abduction the rocket in flight. But the aftereffect was able-bodied account the wait. [NASA]

Image by Matipon Tangmatitham

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Disturbing. Morbid. Calculated. Cold-blooded. Nothing can absolutely call Edward Younghoon Shin, a man who murdered his business partner, Christopher Ryan Smith, and again beatific e-mails to Smith's ancestors assuming to be Smith so they would anticipate their son was still alive.

It all started endure summer if Smith's ancestors accustomed an e-mail adage he was headed to Africa to commence on an chance that would awning paragliding, beach boarding, stops in South Africa, Congo, Rwanda and more. It articulate just like Smith, his ancestors thought, as he has consistently capital to biking the world. Instead, it was in fact Shin, who had murdered Smith and acclimated Smith's e-mail annual as a continued awning to adumbrate the murder.

Smith's ancestors began to bolt on if the e-mails became added blunt but alone started to absolutely anguish if they didn't apprehend annihilation from their son for a continued time. They scoured African account websites and bulletin boards but didn't acquisition anything, they again assassin a clandestine investigator to acquisition more. If the badge became complex in the missing bodies case, they accepted that Smith never catholic to Africa and apparent Smith's claret in the offices of 800xchange, an commercial and business close co-founded by Smith and Shin.

Shin was arrested this accomplished weekend and accepted to the murder. It's alarming to anticipate that even afterwards a being dies, anyone could advance their agenda and online attendance to the point area anybody thinks a asleep man is still alive. [LA Times]

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A huge storm, cyclone Phailin (pronounced: phie-lin), is abutting the states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on the eastern bank of India and will allegedly aswell could cause abundant rain in adjoining states. Indian authorities abandoned bisected a actor humans over the accomplished few canicule as predictions about the storm grew added dire.

Mother Jones letters that the India Meteorological Department declared Phailin as "very severe," and acutely admiral accept been demography activity to adapt for emergency scenarios. But U.S. meteorologists accept been even added acute in their predictions. Brian McNoldy, a blow researcher at the University of Miami told The Associated Press that, “If it’s not a record, it’s really, absolutely close. You absolutely don’t get storms stronger than this anywhere in the apple ever. This is the top of the barrel." Anywhere ever.

Phailin is allegedly about as ample as Blow Katrina, and has wind ability commensurable to Blow Andrew, which hit Miami in 1992 with 165-m.p.h. winds. Storm surges during Phailin could ability 11.5 anxiety (compare to surges during blow Sandy which were amid 9.2 and 12.7 anxiety depending on location). Hopefully Phailin will be an archetype of unnecessarily affecting predictions, but it absolutely seems like it could set some cool storm annal in the Bay of Bengal. Stay safe peeps. [Mother Jones, NYT]

Oh P.S., cyclones, typhoons and hurricanes are all the aforementioned thing they just accept altered names based on area they're happening.

Image via NOAA

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I appealing abundant adulation aggregate in West Elm Market. The Heritage Leather Hammer Holder is no exception.

True story: anyone gave me a hot blush apparatus box for top academy graduation. It's blah and cutesy and fabricated of plastic. Yet I've been application it for years. This is so abundant bigger looking—simple and clean, the affectionate of section that makes you wish to affectation your accoutrement rather than adumbrate them beneath the sink. [West Elm]

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