November 10, 2019

The Charley Project - profiles of over 13,000 "cold case" missing people.

The Charley Project profiles over 13,000 “cold case” missing people mainly from the United States. It does not actively investigate cases; it is merely a publicity vehicle for missing people who are often neglected by the press and forgotten all too soon. A person must have been missing for at least one year to be listed; see the FAQ for additional information on the site, its goals, and its founder/administrator.

http://charleyproject.org/

This is very interesting: an amazing catalogue of human tragedies, implied or explicit.

The only case I'm personally familiar with is in there: a young woman who disappeared nearly 30 years ago from my workplace. She was declared legally dead 7 years later and her husband was arrested for her murder 3 years after that, despite her body never having been found. He's currently doing essentially life. I don't know what evidence convicted him 10 years after her disappearance without a body, but there seems little doubt that he's guilty.

I remember we formed search parties to look for her car and we did find it, but no trace of the woman herself.

I hadn't thought about that case in a really long time.

October 12, 2019

Stalker Found Victim's Home By Looking At Reflection In Her Pupil From High-Res Photo

The link is to slashdot, but the original story is from boingboing. Like the slashdotters, I too, immediately thought of the movie Blade Runner. Well, here we are in 2019:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/10/11/2319251/stalker-found-victims-home-by-looking-at-reflection-in-her-pupil-from-high-res-photo

ETA: AFAIK, here is the original story link that boingboing links to: https://www.asiaone.com/asia/obsessed-fan-finds-japanese-idols-home-zooming-her-eyes

September 29, 2019

Misleading graphs

September 16, 2019

Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry - Kicking Ass

From "a bit of Fry & Laurie"

September 4, 2019

Theme from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I must've heard this when I watched the movie, but, possibly because the movie didn't do a thing for me, I don't remember it. However, I later heard it used on an episode of This American Life where they discussed the impact of murder on families and I was really moved by it for some reason. Funny how that works.

August 12, 2019

Mocking suspect's hairstyle could get you prosecuted, [UK] police warn

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mocking-suspects-hairstyle-could-prosecuted-130523435.html

July 12, 2019

Anyone else just feel the earthquake?

I happened to be up and it sounded and felt like a massive person/creature running on the roof, shaking the house. Not like any earthquake I ever experienced before. I'm actually relieved that it was an earthquake, as I'd just shut off the security system.

M 4.7 - 2km N of Three Lakes, Washington (2.51 AM local time)

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00puiwq1/dyfi/intensity

July 4, 2019

I'm in Australia and I'm having computer problems

˙ǝɯıʇ ǝloɥʍ ǝɥʇ uʍop ǝpısdn doʇdɐl ʎɯ ƃuıploɥ ʞɔǝu ʎɯ uı ʞɔıɹɔ ɐ ɹǝɥʇɐɹ ƃuıʇʇǝƃ ɯ,ı ˙punoɹ, ʎɐʍ ʇɥƃıɹ ǝɥʇ ǝɹɐ sʇsod uʍo ʎɯ ʎluo ˙uʍop ǝpısdn sı qǝʍ ǝɥʇ uo ƃuıɥʇʎɹǝʌǝ ʇɐɥʇ sı ɐılɐɹʇsnɐ uı ƃuıǝq ʇnoqɐ ƃuıɥʇ pɹıǝʍ ʎluo ǝɥʇ

June 22, 2019

Come fly Yorkshire Airlines!

Looks a lot better than EasyJet or RyanAir to be honest...

June 12, 2019

The making of 10cc's "I'm not in love"

Always liked this song, though it's taken some years to re-appreciate it.