12 were variants of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, 8 were bolt-action rifles from World War II or earlier, 4 were variants of the PK machine gun, and 2 were small semiautomatic pistols.
Full story at the NYT – HERE
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For those of you that didn’t get your fix of bomb disarming in the movie The Hurt Locker or old MacGyver episodes:
The Danger Bomb Alarm Clock is the answer!
How it works:
- A minute before the alarm is set to go off, the clock starts beeping. You need to defuse it by unplugging the correct wire according to the colored LEDs on the front.
- If you ignore the beeping long enough, once the clock reaches 10 seconds it will count backwards in Japanese, and if it reaches zero and you were unable to disarm the bomb
- KABOOOOOM have fun listening to a loud exploding nose over and over.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNhKxTViKw[/youtube]
Sounds like a good idea in order to get a person out of bed in the morning. After watching the youtube video, I think disarming the bomb and waking up would be a far better option than listening to that obnoxious explosion over and over.
At the Academy Awards (Oscars) last night, The Hurt Locker took home the following 6 awards:
- Best Picture
- Directing
- Film Editing
- Sound Editing
- Sound Mixing
- Writing (Original Screenplay)
I didn’t want to set aside 15 hours :P of my time yesterday to watch it, but judging by the winners list, The Hurt Locker really swept the show.
I have not seen the movie yet, but I plan on watching it very soon. I avoided it up until now because I heard from a lot of people that it was annoyingly inaccurate. I seem to enjoy other inaccurate movies anyway, so I’m not sure why I chose to listen to people and avoid this one up until now.
There are a few different versions of the movie poster. I found the one I inserted in this article especially chilling.
Any of you guys that have seen this movie, have an opinion on it?