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...just how close the two Everglades plane crashes were, at least in space:

Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, December 29, 1972: 25° 51′ 53″ N, 80° 35′ 43″ W
ValuJet Airlines Flight 592, May 11, 1996: 25° 54′ 47″ N, 80° 34′ 41″ W

Distance as the crow flies: 3 miles.

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I'll be in San Francisco from July 3 to 13, on vacation. Let me know if you want to hang out.

So I just had the weirdest dream ever this morning. Seriously. Normally, I wouldn't bother sharing my dreams, since most of them are bizarre, sexy, tame, or some combination thereof. But this one deserves mention ( Read more... )

I bought this game for my PS3. When it started, the game appeared to freeze at the very first screen, where it tells you not to turn off the PS3 while the HDD access light flashes, and you have to press the 'x' button. Nothing I pressed worked.

I found this AVForums thread where other people had a similar problem. Turns out I had the Guitar ( Read more... )

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Why do companies feel it is okay to force employees to pay for business expenses up front?

So, I enabled a feature in OS X unintentionally. It caused these weird borders to appear around anything I had selected, like "Macintosh HD" in this screen capTurns out, this is part of the "Universal Access" voice-over functionality. I must have somehow hit Command-F5 to enable this at some point in the past few days. Other symptoms: Firefox ( Read more... )