The house with the intercoms used in Pulp Fiction as the home of Uma Thurman is for sale. Built in 1960, if you want to know the asking price you have to do the asking. Via IAmNotAStalker. More Pulp Fiction locations. ...

March 17, 1990, thirteen art works [PDF] were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and remain missing to this day. Their empty frames hang in their place. The museum continues to offer a $5 million reward. Contact the museum Director of Security Anthony Amore directly at 617/278-5114 or theft@gardnermuseum.org to drop a dime. The FBI has put up some billboards to remind people of the reward. ISGM Theft Event Comp from ISGM on Vimeo. Architect Willard T. Sears drew up plans and construction of Fenway Court began ...

The critic happened upon this rare juxtaposition and ran with it. ...

The audio recording of this board meeting of the Mission Springs Water District can be found here. Recognitions "Chris" was recognized for his 10 years of work for the district. General Manager Arden Wallum said that in addition to being an exemplary employee, Chris was one of the first on the scene to rescue the man who was trapped by a ditch cave-in. CORBS (Colorado River Basin Section of the CWEA - NOT Cops On Recumbent Bikes) presented its Gavel Award to past president Lee Boyer. Then CORBS presented its award for Plant ...

Douglas Copp, a rescuer who has gone into 875 quake-collapsed buildings in 60 countries, advises us to crouch NEXT TO heavy objects, not under them, during a quake. He says the falling debris will leave a "triangle of life" where you might survive. A different suggestion comes from Dr. Michio Kaku via Fox television: "simply run." Yes, that's it. That sounds like the caliber of information you'd get from Fox TV. Run. Run anywhere, because world-renown scientist Dr. Chicken Little has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that during a major quake death will strike you right where ...

Somebody got this Buick many miles up the canyon to the mining camp and then pushed it into the dump. One helluva cairn. Linoleum pattern. More of my photos from Trail Canyon. ...

Returning on the night of September 25 on the beach in Santa Monica. Downtown Santa Monica underwent a magical transformation when the Pier, beaches, and Palisades Park glowed with the sights and sounds of original contemporary art all night for the first Glow event in the United States in 2008. Now, planning for the 2010 Glow is in the works. The official website/blog here. Not everyone liked it in 2008. Photo by kangster. ...

AirStash is basically a card reader with WiFi. $100. The main idea is create additional storage for something like iPods that don't have USB ports, but do have WiFi. Of course, you could use it with any laptop (with WiFi) too, but it's also got a USB plug on it, so you could just plug it in...unless all your USB ports are already in use. You could use it with a WiFi-enabled camera as well. Multiple users can access it simultaneously. It uses SD cards, so the memory capacity is whatever you want to make it (up to ...

Los Angeles' murder rate down 80% since 1992 (and 50% down from 2008) (and this without concealed carry). The murder rate is down to 1957 levels. 80% of murders are solved and prosecuted. OTOH, Los Angeles still holds the title of worst traffic congestion in cities over 1 million. Washington, D.C., came in second place, followed by San Francisco, Austin and New York City, respectively. When they look at cities under 1 million, Honolulu almost ties with Los Angeles. ...

Final versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 (they're browsers) released today. Download here. Ron's Log has been using the desktop version of Opera (always has been a browser) since god knows when. More than 10 years, I guess. ...

Step 1: High speed rail from London to Beijing. Step 2: it gets bigger. Lines are being planned to Singapore, Burma, India and Germany via Russia. Travel time from London to Beijing would be about 2 days. China is looking to be paid in natural resources. Burma, for instance, may pay in lithium. ...

Photo of Angels Flight by dailymatador. The Angels Flight funicular in Los Angeles has re-opened after being shut down in 2001.That change is only the latest transformation in the short railroad's long history. For much of its life, beginning in 1901, Angels Flight connected the Victorian houses and wooden bungalows that once crowned Bunker Hill with the bustling commerce at the bottom of the hill. By the late 1960s, both ends of the slope were in transition. Bunker Hill's residential blocks had been razed to make way for high-rise office towers, and the downtown below ...

Photos taken today: The shade structure over the sidewalk has been removed. Playoffs facade. Playoffs. A new light fixture. ...

L.A. Times article about the Fargo Street bicycle climb. Fargo Street, at 30°, is the steepest street in Los Angeles. Google Streetview has some good photos. The front and rear cameras on the Google car flatten out the hill, but the left and right images are corrected for the steep angle, so you can actually appreciate the grade without having to ride it yourself. The view looking down from the top. ...

Complete instructions here, but these are the relevant bits: How do same-sex couples answer the relationship question? The 2010 Census will be the first to report counts of both same-sex partners and same-sex spouses. The person filling out the form (Person 1) is asked to identify how all other individuals in the household are related to him or her. Census data are based on how individuals self identify and how couples think of themselves. Same-sex couples who are married, or consider themselves to be spouses, can identify one other adult as a “husband or wife.” Other same-sex couples may instead ...

Born in 1926, Peter Graves was found dead in his home this past Sunday. His filmography. ...

Trona viewed from near the Pinnacles. The reason Trona exists. Trona High School. The famous Trona High School football field. It's behind the best 12-foot fence in town, so this is the best shot I could get. I guess the post office is required to make their buildings match the ugliness of the town. Valley Wells In this area, several groups of midwestern emigrants, who had escaped from hazards and privations in Death Valley in 1849, sought to secure water from Searles Lake. When they discovered its salty nature, they turned northward ...

The audio recording of this study session of the Mission Springs Water District board of directors is available here. Berkeley Springs Water Tasting A terrible photo of the award MSWD received, with Board President John Furbee in the background. Somebody needs to do a proper setup to get a photo of this with a black background. Marilyn McKay gave a powerpoint presentation with photos from her trip to the 20th anniversary water tasting festival in Berkeley, West Virginia. A special award was presented to Mission Springs Water District for winning more trophies over the years than any other water ...

Coming in 2012, it will be based on the Taurus. It will come with a more powerful engine, V6, 263 HP. That can be increased to 365 HP. ...

A little news article saying that the FCC has released a broadband speed measurement tool and it points to broadband.gov. There you are asked to provide the FCC with the address of your location before you can run the speed test. You can lie to it. I did. Then it runs the speed test, giving download and upload numbers. A few seconds later on my Mac I got an alert that broadband.gov was attempting to install an applet on my computer. Don't know if Windows users get a similar alert. I had no trouble clicking the ...