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Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

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Crazy people.. Another image [NSFW]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BH6fwFvCUAA-PWb.jpg:large

horrible , is that blood floating around ?

No, it's strawberry jam, can't you tell? (I'm sorry for the sarcasm, you've sort of asked for it. I'm officially curious: what else did you think it was?)

Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

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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...

This looks to be shaping up well. Might I suggest a new word for "Favorites" though. Maybe it is silly but it seems odd to me to Favorite gore pictures et. al. "Important" or "Impactful" or something else might be a better word when the content could be that of loss and suffering.

Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

#94

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Love it! This is the future of news consumption: firehose.

Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

#95

Boston 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…

Nitpick: those times are EDT (UTC-04:00), not EST (UTC-05:00).

Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

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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.

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. Even paid for Facebook's promote service to get the word out that other devices are being "detected" and that the issue can extent to NY. NY on alert via Reuters: https://twitter.com/reuters > Paul Browne, NYPD Deputy Commissioner, tells Reuters that…

And NY? Just curious, what makes you say that? Haven't seen that reported anywhere.

Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

#98

It's horrific to see this happen. I hope that people make it out of this ok, and they get to bottom of who did this. Seeing these kinds of senseless attacks on the innocent is just disgusting.

Agreed. I try to be very understanding of the fact that it is usually the winner that decides who is the "good guy" and the "bad guy" in history, but doing something like this is "bad guy" regardless of the reason. Nothing but a senseless tragedy. My thoughts are with anyone who has friends and family affected.

Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

#99
This is the craziest thing. Last Friday, my fiance (works near Boston) said she had to leave early because someone called in a bomb threat. We laughed it off "ha someone wanted to go home early on a Friday..." no idea if related, but crazy...

Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

#100

Can someone just run a plain marathon without having to worry about this in modern civilized life? Come on. This isn't even crime, this is just insanity.

>Can someone just run a plain marathon without having to worry about this in modern civilized life?

In lots of places in the world, no.

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