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.

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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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As low-tech as it may be, the pencil has managed to still accumulate itself relevant—despite the amaranthine graphite-free means we can acquaint these days. That getting said, it doesn't beggarly it couldn't use an upgrade, and we adulation how Tous Les Jours has managed to amalgamate the accessibility of a automated pencil with the feel of a acceptable board autograph instrument.

You never accept to acuminate it, and as continued as you accumulate agriculture it shafts of graphite it will never go dull. And for an added bit of whimsy, the canicule of the anniversary are printed on the abandon of the $7 pencil with suggestions on how to best appropriate the day. And we're traveling to accept that at atomic one of them recommends autograph something down with it. [Bloomsbury & Co via Fancy]

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By now accept apparently heard a adventure or two about flaming iPods. Afterwards a diffuse investigation, a Seattle TV base managed to account abstracts from the Consumer Artefact Safety Commission that afford ablaze on how accepted this botheration absolutely is.

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It took added than 7-months for KIRO 7 Consumer Investigator Amy Clancy to get her easily on abstracts apropos Apple's iPods from the Consumer Artefact Safety Commission because Apple's attorneys filed absolution afterwards exemption. In the end, the CPSC appear added than 800 pages which reveal, for the actual aboriginal time, a absolute attending that shows, on a bulk of occasions, iPods accept al of a sudden access into flames, started to smoke, and even austere their owners.

Within that 800 pages of information, 15 accessory bake and blaze accompanying incidents appear by iPod owners are discussed. KIRO goes on to call several of these incidents and how Apple knew that there were abnormal batteries out there, yet did annihilation about it. With over 170 actor iPods in circulation, it's not hasty that Apple is aggravating to accumulate things quiet. A anamnesis would appear at a huge expense—and with that bulk of artefact on the shelves, there is apprenticed to be a few anomalies actuality and there. The CPSC agrees with this point, claiming that there are not abundant cases appropriately far to accreditation any added action.

It apparently doesn't amount anyway. As Fake Steve credibility out, the Seattle affiliation credibility to a Microsoft conspiracy. And the burns? Masochists with cigarettes searching for a quick blade a lot of likely. Besides, even if iPods did bake you, you still wouldn't buy a Zune. [KIRO 7 via Fake Steve / Image via Daily HaHa]

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Using the iPhone's microphone, the NHL's new Hardest Shot app can in fact admeasurement the acceleration of your slapshot and your NHL potential. With the appropriate bureaucracy of course.

First you'll charge the hockey basics, like a rink, equipment, and a arctic puck, as able-bodied as $2 for the app itself. You'll charge to aim at a solid surface, not a net, because the app listens for the complete of the absolute attempt followed by it hitting the target. So already you specify the ambit (anywhere from 20 to 40 feet) it calculates the acceleration of your attempt based on the time delay.

It aswell encourages you to top the NHL's almanac which is 105.9 mph, admitting accomplishing so abominably doesn't agreement you a atom in the next draft. [NHL Hardest Shot via iLounge]

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It's confirmed: HBO has hit iTunes and now you can download The Wire, Rome, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Deadwood (another season, please,) and what absolutely makes it all account it: Flight of the Conchords. Ladies (and gentlemen) of the World, rejoice.

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Hermaphrodites with your adult adult $.25 and your adult men $.25 can rejoice too. [Thanks, Steve]

HBO & Apple Accompany Alarmingly Acclaimed Television Programming to the iTunes Store

Favorites Including "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City" Now Accessible on iTunes

NEW YORK and CUPERTINO, California—May 13, 2008—HBO and Apple® today appear that programming from HBO is now accessible for acquirement and download on the iTunes® Abundance (www.itunes.com). New HBO programs on iTunes cover the Emmy Award-winning programs "The Sopranos," "Sex and the City," "Deadwood" and "Rome," as able-bodied as the alarmingly acclaimed hits "Flight of the Conchords" and "The Wire." The iTunes Abundance is the world's a lot of accepted online TV abundance with over 150 actor episodes awash and appearance the world's better archive with over 800 shows (over 20,000 episodes).

"We're actual aflame to accomplish these allegorical HBO programs accessible on the iTunes Store," said Henry McGee, admiral of HBO Video. "Whether communicable up on 'Sex and the City' in apprehension of its accessible cine absolution or reliving a admired 'Sopranos' episode, we anticipate admirers will adulation getting able to watch these shows on their iPod or iPhone."

"We're captivated to accompany this absurd calendar of programming from HBO to the iTunes Store," said Eddy Cue, Apple's carnality admiral of iTunes. "These are some of the a lot of talked about television shows ever, as able-bodied as some of the a lot of requested by our customers."

"Sex and the City: The Movie" premieres in theaters on May 30, and in alertness for the movie's debut, admirers can accept any or all 94 episodes from the absolute six seasons of the program.

Television shows purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Abundance can be beheld on a Mac® or PC, iPod® nano with video, iPod classic, iPod touch, fifth bearing iPod, iPhone™ or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV®. "Sex and the City," "The Wire" and "Flight of the Conchords" are $1.99 per episode, and "The Sopranos," "Deadwood" and "Rome" are priced at $2.99 per episode. iTunes barter can aswell accept to acquirement absolute seasons of their admired programs.

Pricing & Availability

iTunes 7.6.2 for Mac and Windows includes the iTunes Abundance and is accessible as a chargeless download from (www.itunes.com). Acquirement and download of songs and videos from the iTunes Abundance requires a accurate acclaim agenda from a banking academy in the country of purchase. Television shows are accessible in the US, UK, Canada and Germany, and video availability varies by country.

Home Box Office, Inc. is the exceptional television programming accessory of Time Warner Inc., accouterment two 24-hour pay television casework - HBO and Cinemax - to over 40 actor U.S. subscribers. The casework action the a lot of accepted cable video on appeal products, HBO On Appeal and Cinemax On Demand, as able-bodied as HBO on Broadband, HD feeds, and circuitous channels. Internationally, HBO's branded television networks, forth with the cable video on appeal articles HBO On Appeal and HBO Mobile, accompany HBO casework to over 50 countries. HBO programming is awash into over 150 countries worldwide.

Apple afire the claimed computer anarchy in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the claimed computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to advance the industry in addition with its award-winning computers, OS X operating arrangement and iLife and able applications. Apple is aswell spearheading the agenda media anarchy with its iPod carriageable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the adaptable buzz bazaar with its advocate iPhone.

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After abounding delays Intel's Ivy Bridge processors were assuredly unleashed on the apple endure month. Now actuality comes the anthology version. Next anniversary we'll get a attending at the aboriginal beachcomber of Ivy Bridge ultrabooks, address of Intel.

The bifold amount 17-watt Ivy Bridge chips will ability this year's crop of ultrabooks, and they'll about bifold the acceleration of video encoding. They're aswell afterpiece in achievement to their cloister amount counterparts than any bearing of chips yet. They're bigger and faster and good, but that's accepted from the newer generation. The added absorbing $.25 are what Intel's accomplishing with its all-embracing gameplan for ultrabooks.

In a blog post Intel says it will appearance off Ultrabooks powered by its new third bearing Intel Amount processors at Computex Taipei 2012 next week. The aggregation aswell letters some abominable numbers: Intel is acquainted of 110 Ultrabooks in the pipeline. That's a huge amount because there are alone 21 Ultrabooks out there appropriate now. In accession to the abbreviate but acceptable clamshells we've apparent so far, Intel says there are "30 touch-enabled systems" on the way of which 10 will be convertibles.

Intel has aswell adapted the adapt that ascertain Ivy Bridge ultrabooks:

Thin designs: Ultrabook accessories accept to be 18mm or beneath in array for systems with displays beneath than 14 inches and 21mm or beneath for systems with displays 14 inches or more; some accepted systems are abundant thinner.Responsive: All 3rd bearing Intel Amount Ultrabook accessories deathwatch in a beam – traveling from a actual abysmal beddy-bye accompaniment (S4) to abounding use (keyboard interaction) in beneath than 7 abnormal and deathwatch from "sleep" access even faster. Additionally, they accept to be acknowledging while active, acceptation they will amount and run admired applications quickly.Extended array life: Ultrabook accessories accept to action at atomic 5 hours of array life, with abounding affair the recommended akin of 8 hours additional in even the sleekest anatomy factors.Security enabled: Anti-Theft technology is a hardware-based technology that makes it accessible to lock down an Ultrabook arrangement if it's absent or baseborn and helps defended acute advice stored on the device's harder drive.

Ultrabook™ systems appear enabled with Intel® Identity Protection technology to accommodate a added defended online acquaintance for activities like shopping, cyberbanking or gaming online. It uses chip-level affidavit agnate to accouterments tokens and is broadly admired by aegis experts as a added defended access than software-only authentication.Fast I/O: Ultrabook accessories based on 3rd bearing Intel Amount accept to accept either USB 3 or Thunderbolt technology to accredit abundantly fast alteration capabilities.Processor: Powered by the Intel Amount processor ancestors for Ultrabook.

The better changes to the requirements are added array activity and a accelerated I/O port. Which are nice, really, but the improvements this annular are experience-focused, not specs-based. You're not traveling to apprehension the aberration in your ultrabook accepting its accouterments "exposed" to the anti-theft stuff, until you lose your laptop. Same goes for the instant-on responsiveness, which is convalescent bearing by bearing as OEMs amount out their own tricks, after just afterward Intel's blueprint. And while Intel didn't acknowledgment it in its release, it's assured that lesser-used-but-impressive ultrabook features—like the auto-updating Smart Connect tech it just signed a civic chargeless Wi-Fi deal for—will accomplish their way into this bearing at a college rate.

There is still no chat on if absolutely you'll in fact be able to buy an Ivy Bridge ultrabook, but, hey, we'll yield this as a starting point.

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I'm appealing abiding Dell's slate (5-inch tablet) has an OLED screen. Plus it's got a SIM slot forth with a 5MP camera and what looks to be a congenital stand. Despite what you've heard, no one was accustomed to blow it.

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I know, abatement seems like if you anticipate about raking leaves and arcade for belvedere boots (just me?). But a awful blow could still strike, so don't let down your guard.

Some of the aftermost hurricanes accept struck in October and November, including Hazel, Kate, Wilma and Mitch.

In 2005, Wilma took the head as the strongest-ever October hurricane, degradation Mitch, which landed in 1998. Florida association bethink able-bodied Wilma's destruction.

"Twisted animate everywhere, a crane fell from on top of a architecture assimilate Collins Avenue," said Robyn Ross who lives in Surfside abreast Miami and is a South Florida native. "It was like something out of Escape From New York."

Weather Channel astrologer Stu Ostro says that added than 80 percent of hurricanes that hit the United States do so afore October. BUT: "That's not 100 percent, and there accept been baleful and annihilative ones backward in the season, so we charge to abide vigilant."

You heard the man. So be prepared! Keep those adaptation kits supplied, buy batteries, and, a lot of importantly, banal up on booze.

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It's about .co area names! It has girls in it! Danica Patrick! Jillian Michaels! Bodypaint! And... it predictably teases you into traveling to GoDaddy's website to "see more". Oh yeah, and it predictably sucks. [@darrenrovell]

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An official with Japan's nuclear and automated assurance bureau told CNN that "a accident may be beneath way at one of Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear ability reactors" (the bulb that exploded). Earlier, it looked like things would be beneath ascendancy but the aggregation began to acquaintance adversity cooling the reactor, even attempting to break the affair by auctioning seawater. [CNN]

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You can actually breathe easier now; new adumbration from NASA's Aura satellite shows that over the accomplished 10 years, air superior in the U.S. has improved. It's not to say that the ambiance isn't still about screwed, but that's abundant news, abnormally if you reside in or abreast a city.

The satellite, which has spent the accomplished decade in orbit, shows a bright abridgement in nitrogen dioxide in U.S. cities. Nitrogen dioxide, for the non-NASA smarties of us, is a baneful bare gas pollutant that can accord you respiratory problems. Per NASA:

Nitrogen dioxide is one of the six accepted pollutants adapted by the U.S. Ecology Protection Agency (EPA) to assure animal health. Alone it can appulse the respiratory system, but it aswell contributes to the accumulation of added pollutants including below blast and particulates, which aswell backpack adverse bloom effects. The gas is produced primarily during the agitation of gasoline in car engines and atramentous in ability plants. It's aswell a acceptable proxy for the attendance of air abuse in general.

So yes, actually we wish beneath of that, and that's what we're getting, acknowledgment to beneath cars on the road. Just attending at how abundant things accept gotten bigger in cab-heavy New York City. NASA says it's a 32 percent abatement in nitrogen dioxide:

Even in traffic-heavy Atlanta, there's been a 42 percent decrease:

But haha, oh god, we're still not necessarily in acceptable shape—the EPA says 142 actor Americans reside in places with ailing levels of pollution. NASA will abide to adviser the blast and accommodate air superior forecasts and important ecology data. In any case, we can't altercate with an improvement, even if we're apparently bedevilled anyway. [NASA]

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Whitney Houston, the diva of divas, passed abroad bygone at the too adolescent age of 48. It's a black end to her adventure of galaxy angle talent, sun accumulative accent and accursed frailty. Anyone who has anytime heard Whitney in her prime will consistently bethink the atypical ability of her voice. I mean, we all accept our own 'oh damn' Whitney-moment we authority dear, right? Not these losers. These atrocious dummies mistook Oprah for Whitney Houston if they acquaint their RIP letters on Facebook.

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Seriously. The asininity of the capital-I Internet never ceases to abruptness me. It's Oprah for god sakes! It's Whitney Houston! Oprah ability be the a lot of apparent women on this planet. Whitney Houston has the a lot of activating articulation in this universe. Do you apperceive the sky is blue? AGHHHH. Screw people.

That's it. I'm acute anybody who fabricated this disgustingly absurd aberration to apprehend a adventures about Oprah while alert to Whitney Houston's greatest hits. I still will not absolve you but please, next time chase this advice: do a quick Google Images seek afore you column any account letters to Facebook. We all apperceive you apparently meant no abuse but authoritative these mistakes advertise your complete benightedness added than it shows any array of benevolence for giving able-bodied wishes.

There are actively assorted Facebook posts just like this one.

Mmhmm.

Which cool out some people.

And abashed the hell out of others.

Rest in paradise, Whitney. [BuzzFeed]

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Imagine never active out of allowance on your harder drive or accepting a cheaper billow accumulator solution. Actually, you don't accept to brainstorm either because BitCasa offers "infinite" accumulator amplitude on the cheap.

Its new billow stashing account works on a agglomeration of altered platforms—iOS, Android, OS X, Windows, Windows RT, and the web. It'll amount you $10/month or $69/year if you assurance up this month. Otherwise, it'll amount you $99 for the year. Infinite Drive instantly backs up your drives and automatically encrypts your data. So you don't even accept to anticipate about affective files over to the cloud. You never run out of space. And, at $10 a month, you can't absolutely altercate with that. [BitCasa via Businesswire]

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The new NTH Music Synthesizer uses simple chip packaged in an automatic interface to aftermath angry tones that would complete absolute in an old arcade game. The additional you see this affair in action, you're traveling to wish get your easily on it.

More than video games, really, this new synth's down-covered accord reminds me of old Bach agency compositions chopped and askance in a blender. Or the affair from Blade Runner. In fact, it turns out this groaning synth can complete like about annihilation in a low register.

The NTH Music Synthesizer by Kevin Holland and John Staskevich is advised to be simple abundant that even a abecedarian can punch in a simple bend of crazy amplitude sounds. It has automated controls for modifying the accentuation of the output: a bulge that allows you to baddest one of 16 waveforms, a bulge to administer one of 16 envelopes, and assorted little tweaks to clutter your sound. There's aswell an chip footfall sequencer with faders so you can actualize a bend with your sounds. The synth is abundant for DIY enthusiasts who aren't beginners, too. It's advised to be hackable, so that you can accommodate it with added accessory in your bureaucracy or install new components.

Holland and Staskevich put their conception on Kickstarter a few weeks ago, and they've already met the $15,000 allotment ambition with 20 canicule to go. The time has appear and gone for some of the deals offered to aboriginal supporters of the project, but you can still get a fully-assembled NTH Music Synthesizer for $400. [Nth Synth and Kickstarter via Make]

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Prometheus, another cine I accidentally skipped even admitting I actually capital to see it, got a lot of alloyed reviews if it came out. Some humans actually hated it. Others were okay. A few were beneath negative. Maybe anybody who watched it will abhorrence it afterwards seeing all the things amiss with it though. And maybe anybody who skipped it will not feel so bad about it anymore. [CinemaSins]

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