Two of my friends flew over from the UK and were running in it, it happened right in front of Chris, luckily he's ok, she's ok. Fucking bombing bastards.
Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
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Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
#82Why do the top links on reddit stop leaving the front page? This link was #1 for about 10 minutes: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1cen7i/explosion_... and now has vanished, along with all other sponsored links. A horrible tragedy like this seems leagues more important than the current top link: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1cebz2/spotted_cookie...
I don't know what happened to the /r/worldnews post, but that subreddit's rules do say that it's for non-US sources and news. Also, that post linked to a Gawker site, which for many is reason enough to kill it.
Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
#83Boston marathon start times 2013 EDT: 9:00 am Mobility Impaired 9:17 am Wheelchair Division 9:22 am Handcycles 9:32 am Elite Women 10:00 am Elite Men & Wave One 10:20 am Wave Two 10:40 am Wave Three Explosion happened somewhere around (edit) noon PST, 3pm EDT. A little before. Elite women marathon times are in the 2:15 and slower range. Elite men are 2:05 and slower. Not sure about likely times for the earlier groups…
There is a vine link that shows the explosion elsewhere on this post; it shows a gun time of 4:09:44 (although not sure when 0:00 would be)
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
c'mon, people have smartphones. companies like facebook, twitter, foursquare, etc know your location and should be able to push notifications alerting people to stay away/at home. EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes guys, here I was trying to show a real need. I've been calling friends in NY/Boston the past 30min asking to see if they are OK + stay at home.
Strangely enough, iPhones do have an ability to receive geographic-targeted alerts like this. I've seen them used for severe weather warnings. They look like this — http://i.imgur.com/gWrDXFD.jpg
I started getting them sometime within the last year. Weather warnings and amber alerts. I always assumed that I started getting these as a result of some change in the Android software, but maybe it was a change in policy somewhere?
Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
#86North Korea, Al Qaeda, racists, or something else? I honestly think anyone could claim responsibility but given the high explosives and the seemingly professional nature of the attack I'm guessing either NK, AQ, or a false-flag to start a war on the Korean peninsula. edit: Nice downvotes? We cannot speculate who?
Your comment is showing up in a very faint grey on my screen, whereas everyone else's is black. Why is that?
His comment has been downvoted a lot.
Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
#87Why do the top links on reddit stop leaving the front page? This link was #1 for about 10 minutes: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1cen7i/explosion_... and now has vanished, along with all other sponsored links. A horrible tragedy like this seems leagues more important than the current top link: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1cebz2/spotted_cookie...
I don't know what happened to the /r/worldnews post, but that subreddit's rules do say that it's for non-US sources and news. Also, that post linked to a Gawker site, which for many is reason enough to kill it.
Seems that some other, far better source, should have replaced it by now. There were a few up-in-coming, but they too vanished.
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#88The Boston Marathon just issued a statement and used the word "bombs." Not sure if that's just a hasty description, but that is the word they used.
[Some random unsourced people on the internet are saying that...] Police are saying they're finding multiple secondary devices, as well.
I'm guessing they're not talking about cell phones.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
if it's yours: nice, but consider refresh rate of 'media' a bit lower. I can't read the captions before it's pushed down.
Will do. It is by no means ready for release, but you know...
cool, I get it. I see there is a lot of ux polishing ahead, but I like the overal concept.
an on/off button for auto-refresh may be a good idea.
signed up for the notification email.
Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
#90Another source to listen in to Boston emergency communications:
http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s...