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Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

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What I watched

Posted: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:34 AM by Will Femia
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I've been a regular viewer of Lost from the start, so I'm a little embarrassed to say I wasn't aware that there were random clips of video around the Internet that could be assembled to give more clues and background into the story.  Luckily, this guy was aware of it.

This is as close to a one-liner as a 911 operator gets.  I'd be interested to know the full story since obviously the caller knows his name and he knows not to take her very seriously.  NOTE:  Page has some ads on it with a girl in a thong.  Potentially unsafe.

New engine combusts old ideas - The Scuderi engine is a split cycle engine.  The article includes a very helpful 4 minute video of what that means.  The claims are exciting, but I'm still having trouble imagining what kind of power comes from a cylinder that fires with the piston already on the way down.

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There's a big difference between a 911 operator and a 9/11 operator when one is referenced in a tagline.

Dave, Waterloo, IL (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:20 AM)

Don't know if you meant for it to be NSFW but the link for the 911 operator had some pretty questionable content.

MH (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:38 AM)

Thanks Dave, finger reflex.

MH, thanks for pointing that out, I added a note.

Will Femia (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:45 AM)

That's hilarious!

I, personally, can't stand it when people take advantage of the system like that.  Ridiculous.  

Dave Persing, Seattle, WA (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:00 PM)

Hey Will,
I miss the old Clicked template
Tom

Tom Loftus, Breuklyn, NY (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:57 PM)

While I think this issue is blown out of proportion don't the 911 responders identify themselves by name? That might explain her use of the familliar "Mike" rather than indicate a history of her abusing the 911 service.

This sounds like a truncated clip but regardless of that the caller was very fast to use the "I'm going to file a formal complaint" line.

Who calls 911 over an unruly 12 yr old child unless there is a serious history of violence/mental disturbance? And wouldn't there be an indication of that before it reached the "I need a police officer" point?

There's not a lot to go on but this reminds me of the person who called 911 because of a service dispute at a McDonalds drive through.

Sean, NY (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:19 PM)

On a different note... can anyone explain to me how the authorities in charge of Homeland Security and the War on Terror (including and especially our Presidential administration) plan to stop the detonation of a WMD (nuclear or dirty bomb, biological, chemical) in this country when we can't stop the importation of Tons of illegal drugs that are coming in on a Daily basis?  Also, why do the same terror groups we're fighting use car bombs everywhere else in the world but they have to commandeer passeger planes to attack the US (which is significantly harder than orchestrating a large scale car bomb assault; especially when illegals from South of the border can buy a new or used car all day long!)?  I'd just like to know.

Just Curious, Everywhere,USA (Sent Friday, September 01, 2006 1:36 AM)

very nice article just found thru google.thanks i visit this msnbc site daily.

delhi (Sent Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:20 AM)



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