An interesting video awareness test.
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Awareness
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GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com
A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops. Visitors to RateMyCop.com on Tuesday were redirected to a GoDaddy page reading, “Oops!!!”, which urged the site owner to contact GoDaddy to find out why the company pulled the plug.
RateMyCop founder Gino Sesto says he was given no notice of the suspension. When he called GoDaddy, the company told him that he’d been shut down for “suspicious activity.”
When Sesto got a supervisor on the phone, the company changed its story and claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim that Sesto says is nonsense. “How can it be overloaded when it only had 80,00 page views today, and 400,000 yesterday?”
Police departments became uneasy about RateMyCop’s plans to watch the watchers in January, when the Culver City, California, startup began issuing public information requests for lists of uniformed officers.
Then the site went live on February 28th. It stores the names and, in some cases, badge numbers of over 140,000 cops in as many as 500 police departments, and allows users to post comments about police they’ve interacted with, and rate them. The site garnered media interest this week as cops around the country complained that they’d be put at risk if their names were on the internet.
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Etch-A-Sketch Clock
It draws out the time and erases itself every minute.
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The Feather Lady
Pacific Northwest artist Julie Thompson has been creating her intricate paintings on naturally-molted peacock feathers since 1990. Her first markets were along the cruise ship route in the southeast of Alaska, her home state – in such towns as Ketchikan and Skagway. Since then her style has grown and representation has spread to many galleries, in several states, on both coasts. These unique works of art have found homes in collections across the US and Canada as well as in Germany, Ireland, and Japan.
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