On a hot hot day, a Southwest Airlines flight attendant approached Setara Qassim to ask her if she had a sweater. Naturally she didn't and ended up wrapped in a blanket instead.
NBC has a picture slideshow and video of Setara Qassim (I know that's what you're here for!).
Edit: Found another picture of Setara Qassim at WireImage.
[Pic, Source: NBC]
Thursday, September 13, 2007
The Russians recently demonstrated a new bomb which is supposed to be 4 times more powerful than the US version known as Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (MOAB) or "Mother of All Bombs". Hence the Russians called theirs the "Father of All Bombs".
From the video, the Father (Dad) of All Bombs doesn't look all too impressive. Maybe I've been spoiled by the Masters of spectacular (but fairly harmless) explosions - Hollywood movies.
Father (Dad) of All Bombs
Mother (Mum) of All Bombs
[Source: Reuters]
Who ever thought that water could burn? But it seems that water can actually burn, though you do need some salt in it and a funky generator for cancer treatment.
Sounds weird eh? However that is exactly what John Kanzius has discovered and patented. Using his radio frequency generator he developed for fighting cancer, an accidental discovery was made when someone suggested using salt water for his experiment.
So he put some salt water into a test tube and got his machine focused on it. A spark was produced and further experiments revealed that the flame was hot enough to melt the test tube!
Further tests showed that they were burning the hydrogen that was released when the radio frequency came into contact with the salt water.
Later, they did a measurement and it turns out the flame is more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit!
Not that I'm paranoid or anything but should this info be released to the public? Just imagine the (evil) possibilities. I mean someone could build a gigantic radio frequency generator and start setting the oceans on fire! Or worse, keep it light and portable and you have a sonic death ray in your hands. At that point, cancer will be the least of your worries.
[Source: Post Gazette via digg]
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Gizmodo has just confirmed that a free software unlock solution is available for the iPhone by the iPhone Dev Team. This comes just a day or two after iPhoneSIMfree.com unveiled it's paid software unlock (Edit: I mean to end users and not just proof of concept). Of course, the free solution uses some of the techniques from the paid solution, but no one had expected it to be done so quickly.
In case you had no idea, the iPhone is locked to AT&T for 2 years when you buy it. This software will allow you to break free from AT&T and use another (possibly cheaper and better) mobile carrier. Additionally, you can use the iPhone overseas, or from the perspective of those outside the US, they can finally get one and actually use it fully.
I've seen the guide for the software unlock and AT&T can sleep a bit easier since it's not for the faint hearted. However if you're one of those who pulled off OSX on a PC aka OSX86, this should be a piece of cake. Here are the mirrors for the guide:
- http://iphone.unlock.no/ (Recommended, it is detailed and includes a troubleshooting guide)
- http://newlegion.com/iphone.unlock.htm (Same as first guide)
- http://www.freeiphoneunlock.com/guide/ (<-- DO NOT VISIT, see below for more details)
From the guides, you'll notice that iUnlock.zip is a critical component (Edit: See below for GUI version). Here's a list of mirrors for iUnlock.zip from the wiki (they don't want links to the wiki):
You wanted it, we have it. Enjoy your free iPhone.
Download: http://www.deadbeef.cn/files/iUnlock.zip
Mirror: http://mirror1.deadbeef.cn/iUnlock.zip
Mirror because of too much requests, thanks to the sponsors: http://www.tr0gd0r.com/iUnlock.zip
http://iphonedev.km20825.keymachine.de/iUnlock.zip
public download services: http://rapidshare.com/files/55044435/iUnlock.zip.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FMI6OEE9
Source http://mirror1.deadbeef.cn/iUnlock_src.zip
http://iphonedev.km20825.keymachine.de/iUnlock_src.zip
http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/09/iunlock_src.zip
- dev team
Looks confusing? Don't worry, if you are patient, a simpler and easier method will probably be developed (at least that was how the OSX86 project progressed). Edit: Better GUI version below.
Edit: For more links, head over to the iUnlock thread at the Mac Rumors forum. Also, Engadget has some useful info and links in its iUnlock post.
Edit:
iUnlock (Very User Friendly GUI Version)
http://www.pianojoe.de/unlockapp.zip (Working Mirror)
(Don't use this version as this was what haRRo stole)
Visit the iUnlock thread at the Mac Rumors forum for more links.
And you should take a look at an article about the person behind www.freeiphoneunlock.com at The Unofficial Apple Weblog aka TUAW. Essentially the person, haRRo, isn't part of the iPhone Dev Team and nearly got away with USD42,000.
Edit: New guide at IHacks. By the way, new GUI by iPhone Dev Team + GUI guide are expected soon, so if you can wait a while, it's probably worth it.
Edit: A new automatic version is available - iUnlock Reloaded. But still not out yet is the easy GUI solution. That is still in progress.
Update: Finally the free unlock GUI version (anySIM) is out! Read more about anySIM (where to download, etc) in the anySIM thread at the official forums.
[Source: Gizmodo: iPhone Free Software Unlock Confirmed (Death Star Explodes)]
Most people visiting this blog should be able to find what they were actually looking for (ain't that interesting!). In the (absurdly rare) event that you can't find what you were looking for (are you sure? try looking harder!), I've created 2 custom Google search engines for the most popular type of requests.
Their names should be fairly self explanatory but I'll explain what they are supposed to do anyway. Remember to bookmark them if they were useful in your search!
tk Social Bookmarking Search looks around sites like digg, reddit, etc. So if you're looking for users' opinions/posts on current hot topics like 9/11, Vanessa Hudgens then using this search should hopefully bring you the good stuff.
tk Video Search has its focus on video sites such as Youtube, MetaCafe, etc. Looking for the Beowulf trailer? Or maybe you want to watch the IT crowd online. This search should find the video you want.
If your favorite sites are not included inside the search engines, just signup to be a contributor at their homepage links above. It'll definitely help to increase the accuracy of the results.
And finally, I'll probably be working on some other search engines (music, etc) as well. This post will be updated with their links when I start on them.
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