Periodic Table of Typefaces. Via DRB.
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Drunk and Disorderly Airline Passenger Taped to Seat
Photo: Andy
Ellwood
What to do when an airline passenger got drunk and become disorderly?
New York businessman Andy Ellwood posted this photo of a man who had a
wee bit too much to drink on an Icelandair flight:
Passanger drank all of his duty free liquor on the flight from Iceland
to JFK yesterday. When he became unruly, (i.e. trying to choke the woman
next to him and screaming the plane was going to crash), fellow passengers
subdued him and tie him up for the rest of the flight. He was escorted
off the flight by police when it landed.
Bill Kristol’s big plans
The conservative figure has been busy charting the future of the Republican Party.
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/bill-kristols-big-plans-start-with-hagel-nomination-85816.html
Google executive chairman arrives in North Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The Google chairman wants a first-hand look at North Korea’s economy and social media in his private visit Monday to the communist nation, his delegation said, despite misgivings in Washington over the timing of the trip….
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Fewer excited gun-buyers in Colo. and Conn.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Connecticut and Colorado, scenes of the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012, people were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of the year than in most other states, according to an Associated Press analysis of new FBI data. The biggest surges in background checks for people who want to carry or buy guns occurred in states in the South and West….
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Media Decoder Blog: Gore Went to Bat for Al Jazeera, and Himself, in Current TV Deal
Al Gore used the same arm-twisting he employed to build up Current TV to persuade cable distributors to keep showing it after it was sold to Al Jazeera.
via NYT > Television http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/gore-went-to-bat-for-al-jazeera-and-himself/?partner=rss&emc=rss
‘Most Americans associate Al Jazeera with Al Qaeda’: Broadcaster faces an uphill climb to pin down US TV audience
Broadcaster Al Jazeera has bought its way into the American market, but network brass might not find an oasis of viewers wanting to tune in.
Dodging Spoilers in ‘Downton Abbey’
U.S. fans of the British period drama are about to start getting their season-three fix, but news from the earlier U.K. airings is hard to avoid.
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Titillation, With Breeding and Manners as the Tease
Season 3 of “Downton Abbey†begins on Sunday with Shirley MacLaine as Lady Mary’s pushy and presumptuous visiting American grandmother.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/arts/television/downton-abbey-begins-third-season-on-sunday-on-pbs.html
Video analysis: Detecting text every which way
Software that detects and extracts text from within video frames, making it searchable, is set to make a vast resource even more valuable.
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