New ESPN sports docs include 'Tonya and Nancy'

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- The knee whack heard 'round the world will be revisited near the 20th anniversary of the rivalry between Olympic figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, as one of six new documentaries on ESPN's "30 for 30" series.

The series' second season begins Oct. 1 with "Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau," about the big wave surfer and lifeguard.

It wraps up Nov. 5 with "Tonya and Nancy," a look back at the Jan. 6, 1994, incident in which Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee after practice for the U.S. championships in a plot masterminded by Harding's ex-husband. The film includes new interviews with Harding and people close to Kerrigan.

ESPN Films Vice President Connor Schell said Wednesday that they're still trying to persuade Kerrigan to do an interview. She has mostly shunned the spotlight to focus on raising her family.

"Several people close to her have done interviews," he told the Television Critics Association summer meeting. "We're still working to get Nancy and hope by November that we do."

The rest of the series is: "Free Spirits" about the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team airing Oct. 8; "No Mas" about the rivalry between boxers Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran on Oct. 15; "Big Shot" about John Spano's scam to buy the New York Islanders on Oct. 22; and "This is What They Want" on Jimmy Connors' run to the semifinals of the 1991 U.S. Open on Oct. 29.

Former "Entourage" star and lifelong Islanders fan Kevin Connolly directs and narrates "Big Shot." It features the only interview Spano has given about being allowed to purchase the NHL team in 1996 even though he had far less resources than he led then-owner John Pickett and the league to believe.

"John Spano wasn't driven as much by greed and money as he wanted to be able to walk into a room and have people go nuts and want his autograph," Connolly said. "He wanted to be a star."

Connolly had to persuade a reluctant Spano to tell his story and at the same time walk a fine line between being a fan of the team and directing the film.

"He knew there were going to be some unpleasant things that were discussed," said Connolly, who was born and raised on New York's Long Island.

He rejected Spano's request to leave certain things out of the film.

"I wouldn't be doing my job," Connolly said. "It would be borderline unethical."

Spano saw the film in April when it premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival. Connolly said that Spano "denied a couple of things" but didn't ask the director to edit anything out of the finished product.

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HAARP Ionospheric Research Program Set To Continue

[unable to retrieve full-text content]cylonlover writes "Reports that the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) had been shut down permanently were apparently a bit premature. According to HAARP program manager James Keeney, the facility is only temporarily off the air while operating contractors are changed. So why does anyone care? Despite being associated with various natural disasters over the past two decades by the conspiracy fringe, HAARP is in reality a facility for studying the ionosphere. Gizmag takes a look at the goings on at HAARP – past, present, and future."

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Chipotle Faked Its Own Twitter Hack

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The Internet was all aflutter this weekend when it appeared the official Twitter account for Chipotle had been hacked by some funsters out for a web-based joyride. In the span of about an hour the account sent out confusing updates ranging from ?Mittens13 password leave? to ?end twitter? to the succinct, yet extremely accurate ?twitter,? making many people think Chipotle had suffered the same fate Burger King did back in February. In reality, however, they just took a page out of MTV?s playbook.

That?s right. Say it with me. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE.

Chipotle appeared to be the latest brand to have its Twitter account hacked on Sunday when its main account, @ChipotleTweets, posted a series of confusing and seemingly random tweets over the course of an hour. Now, the company has come forward and admitted that it faked having its account hacked as part of a publicity stunt tied to its 20th anniversary promotional campaign.

?We thought that people would pay attention, that it would cut through people?s attention and make them talk, and it did that,? Chris Arnold, a Chipotle representative, told Mashable in an interview. ?It was definitely thought out: We didn?t want it to be harmful or hateful or controversial.? [Mashable]

God this is so dumb. So super dumb. Huge corporations are now pretending that they?ve been ?hacked? as some sort of guerrilla marketing campaign. That is actually a thing that is happening now. Think long and hard about that. Some dude in a $1,000 suit instructed his underling to instruct one of his underlings to come up with tweets ? non-harmful, non-hateful, uncontroversial tweets ? to make it look like someone had committed a felony and hijacked their social media presence. That?s like one step short of having an employee throw a trashcan through your front window to see if it gets your store on the news.

I bet the tweets even went through a focus group. Really, I bet they did. ?Would a tweet from a corporate account that read only ?end twitter? make you think the account had been hacked? Press 1 for yes and 2 for no.? I bet someone actually said that. Then I bet the person looked at the results, nodded silently, and made a notation on his or her clipboard like it wasn?t the single corniest thing a person has ever done.

Ugh.

(via Mashable)

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JVC's upgraded GC-XA2 ADIXXION action camera is really, really hard to put down

Look, we all know someone suffering from an insatiable appetite for [insert vice here]. But if you've ever met someone who picked up the OG ADIXXION, you probably understand just how fixated on a single product one can become. Keeping the fix going is JVC, who has introduced the latest -- and perhaps most addicting -- ADIXXION yet. The GC-XA2 is obviously designed to rival anything in the space that GoPro presently owns, boasting a water-, shock-, dust- and freeze-proof enclosure and mounting options galore.

Performance improvements in the new model include 1,920 x 1,080 60p/50p Progressive Full HD recording, and 1,280 x 720 high-speed recording at 120fps / 100fps for 4x slow-motion playback. ther upgrades include a brighter and wider-angle optical lens, improved image stabilization, a higher-resolution LCD monitor with auto-off and auto-brightness functions, a higher-resolution image sensor, a higher audio bit rate and better noise reduction. It'll start shipping later this month for a hair under $300... just don't go stealing from your mum in order to finance it, okay?

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