LOTD for August 24 (part 1)

Small company in San Diego that developed an imaging system to find submerged whales from an orbiting Navy UAV (so that no whales are around when the Navy ships and subs do sonar training) may be able to utilize that system to find terrorists camps hiding in jungles…this would save the military from having to spend a lot of money on an expensive radar system that can look through tree cover:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/08/whale-detecting-cameras-might-spot-bad-guys-in-jungles/

Clearwire is apparently running out of cash and needs several billions of dollars more to fund its business plan. It is hard for them to raise more funding in this tight credit market, especially when their investors feel burned by their previous investments–for example, Intel’s $1 billion investment is now worth $62 million:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45394&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#

All Southwest Airline planes will offer WiFi by next year:
http://gigaom.com/2009/08/21/southwest-to-roll-out-wi-fi-fleetwide-in-q1-2010/

Google’s free WiFi network in Mountain View has doubled its traffic–it is now up to 600 Gbps per day of user traffic:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/google-wifi-continues-be-one-most-successful-wireless-broadband-networks-world-it-cel

11-year-old boy ran into a burning house to save his family.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/1729356,CST-NWS-rescue22.article

For the second time an Iowa man has been fired for sexual harassment after repeating a joke from the Seinfeld TV show. Actually, that is what the headline wants you to believe, but if you read the article you will find out that the man followed up the joke with repeated e-mails to a woman coworker and even tried to give her an unwanted massage on her shoulders:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090823/news01/908230361

Cleveland barber was so upset about the beef jerky he bought that he went to the store he got it from (2 doors down from his barbershop) and tried to rob it! The store owner recognized him and chased him outside with a baseball bat, and the police officer knew him because he cuts the officer’s hair:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/22/ap/strange/main5259546.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines

Junior High School teacher in Utah allegedly *paid* her student $1400 to $1500 each time they had sex:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13177530

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