LockergnomeTo inform, empower, and entertain - Lockergnome is a blogging network for people who are curious about the world around them. Join us and start sharing your knowledge today!71 year old former marine shoots armed robbers at subway...- July 4, 2008 Tallahassee.com reports that John Lovell, a 71-year-old former U.S. Marine, shot two armed robbers at a Subway Store in Plantation, Florida. According to the police statement, Today's news brought to you by the Second Amendment: "The Second Amendment... it's there to back up the First Amendment." Also by Robert Heinlein: "An armed society is a polite society." Related Articles: if the food doesn't get you... philly shoots themselves in...http://www.lockergnome.com/leftystrat/2008/07/04/71-year-old-former-marine-shoots-armed-ro... PassFail: The Clone of Twitter- July 4, 2008 Identi.ca, or the clone of Twitter is getting a lot of hype lately. Personally, I have not used the service. However, I have looked at the website and the resemblance to Twitter is astonishing. Identi.ca allows users to post small updates about what they are doing. This website seems to be an exact clone of twitter; it even has the same character limit per post as Twitter. Identi.ca offers one thing that Twitter does not: a solution to Twitter's downtime. Identi.ca's answer to Twitter's...http://www.lockergnome.com/jfcapasso/2008/07/04/passfail-the-clone-of-twitter/ Agile messenger on the iPhone- July 4, 2008 Ever since the iphone got released one of the apps that i really wanted was some kind of messenger that had windows live messenger in it and not something else like aim or yahoo messenger. A while ago on the trillian astra site there is a picture of astra being on the iphone when it becomes available although i believe that's in the alpha stage at the moment. The next best thing was google talk and thanks to a blog post by matt i seen that google talk was now available on the iphone. I liked...http://www.lockergnome.com/ss3luke/2008/07/04/agile-messenger-on-the-iphone/ My Thought Process- July 4, 2008 I was sitting here thinking about how much I like history and things having to do with history, as this is Independence Day. Now that I see that name in "type" I'll probably watch the movie later today. Anyway, I got to thinking about how much I like US History literature and how people used to write and talk back then. I got to thinking about that when Nicholas Cage mentioned it in National Treasure, which is full of tons of little history facts and such. And I got to thinking about how I..http://www.lockergnome.com/omnidragon/2008/07/04/my-thought-process/ Wine - Better Health Connection Found- July 4, 2008 For years, the people of this country have been told of the beneficial effects of drinking red wine. Not becoming an over indulgent wino, but drinking moderate amounts of the stuff that Ernest and Julio Gallo are known to turn out. The French have been studied, along with the Greeks, both as cultures whose incidence of heart attack, atherosclerosis, and other later life diseases is much lower than normal for the rest of the world. The Italians have also been studied, and to a degree,...http://www.lockergnome.com/theoracle/2008/07/04/wine-better-health-connection-found/ Trying To Believe in Dara Torres- July 4, 2008 It may be misplaced optimism but I want to believe. It is 2008 and Dara Torres is forty one years old. She is swimming and trying to qualify for a spot on the U.S. national Olympic swim team that goes to Beijing. Yes, I remember how Marion Jones swore that she never used drugs to enhance her performance. Dara Torres has nine Olympic medals. She is a mother of a toddler. At forty one, she is not expected to compete at this level. There are swimmers half her age, and even younger,...http://www.lockergnome.com/forsythe/2008/07/04/trying-to-believe-in-dara-torres/ iPhone 3G lines started in New York- July 4, 2008 So how are you spending your 4th of July Well for a few die-hard Apple fans they are already in line for the iPhone 3G. The line is at the Cube in New York City. While I understand waiting in line for products, I have done so for the Xbox 360 and Wii, a week sounds a little dramatic, don't you think So here's something to think about, what can you do to keep busy while waiting For me a few books wouldn't hurt plus my Macbook would come in handy, of course only 4 hours of battery life, and of.http://www.lockergnome.com/digged/2008/07/04/iphone-3g-lines-started-in-new-york/ eBay and Nigerian Scam- July 4, 2008 For starts, I was selling a PlayStation Portable on eBay. Total went all the way to $150, the total was increased to 152. The winning bidder of this auction that was specified as U.S. only and PayPal only, decided to tell me to send the item to hisher son in Nigeria. I send a request to eBay to inspect the account and stated the situation. of course eBay screwed it up by canceling my auction and sending me an email that says I owe $2. Great. Well I did a search for...http://www.lockergnome.com/truxter/2008/07/04/ebay-and-nigirian-scam/ U.S. Passport Information Easily Breached- July 4, 2008 It seems that the personal, confidential passport information of celebrities, politicians and other well known Americans are breached routinely. The electronic records do not have the purported safeguards to prevent people in the government from having a look at these data: "...The report documented a widespread lack of controls on the personal data of the 127 million Americans who hold passports, finding numerous "weaknesses, including a general lack of policies, procedures, guidance and...http://www.lockergnome.com/forsythe/2008/07/04/us-passport-information-easily-breached/ Mapness!- July 4, 2008 A friend of mine recently traveled to Europe for a few weeks and was able to visit a number of the top spots that tourists think of in connection with Europe. When he had time to do so, he sent out updates to his friends and family via e-mail, and it was enjoyable to read his experiences and see a few of the pictures that he had taken along the way. Using e-mail to communicate in this way is one option, but there are also special services that have been built to help people record the details...http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2008/07/04/mapness/ |