OK Go: “Here It Goes Again”

I know I’m late to the party with this, but hey, we didn’t have cable until recently. And hey, that’s one cool-as-hell video. I can’t imagine the time spent choreographing that.

Suspect accused of fatal shootings of officer and security guard is captured in Blacksburg

What a way to start the new school year.

Police say they have captured William Morva in woods near rugby and lacross fields on Blacksburg’s Tech Center Drive. They say they have recovered a weapon believed to have been used in the shooting this morning of Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputy Eric E. Sutphin and the shooting early Sunday morning of Derrick McFarland, a security guard at Montgomery Regional Hospital. Both Sutphin and McFarland died.

Morva, 24, also is accused of injuring another deputy as he escaped custody at the hospital. Morva had been jailed since being charged last year in an attempted robbery.

A far cry from my first day at Virginia Tech.

Gun-toting teen ruins my afternoon

So, weeks ago, I got tickets to this afternoon’s taping of the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which is my new favorite talk show, by a country mile, thanks to the wonders of TiVo.

Weeeeeell, so much for that idea: I got a call about a gun found in a local high school. The inestimable Gretchen Losi at the Daily Press won’t be back in until tomorrow, so this one falls on my shoulders.

Eh, I didn’t really need to see Shannen Doherty anyway. Amy Smart on Wednesday would have been awesome, though.

Damned selfish accused criminals …

Seriously though, this was an easy decision to make, and my inconvenience is nothing compared to the importance of this news, but it was ironic that one of the few scenarios that would have kept me in the office this afternoon (the taping begins at 3 in Hollywood) happened.

• Update: OK, I’m now on for Monday, September 25. Let’s try this again …

Material Issue on iTunes

After languishing in the black hole of “not releasing any songs in the iTunes era,” Material Issue now has albums available via iTunes.

Go download “What Girls Want” now. I command it!

Podcasts, extensions and mods list

Since this is the second time this year I’ve had to set up my podcasts, Firefox and World of Warcraft, I’m going to take a moment to jot down the podcast selections, Firefox extensions and WoW mods I’m using, just in case this happens again at some point, so I can be back up and running faster.

• APM: Marketplace Takeout
• Coverville
• Dave Cusick’s Post Modern Rock Show
• Ebert & Roeper
• KCRW’s Film Reviews
• KCRW’s Martini Shot
• KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic
• KCRW’s The Business
• KCRW’s The Treatment
• KCRW’s Today’s Top Tune
• KQED’s The California Report
• Liz Phair Podcast
• NPR: 10 a.m. ET News Summary
• NPR: Koppel on the News
• NPR: Most E-mailed Stories
• Official Disneyland Resort Podcast
• On the Media
• Our Ocean World
• PRI’s The World – Geo Quiz
• Science Friday Podcast
• StarDate
• Suicide Girls Radio
• The Official LOST Podcast
• The Onion Radio News
• They Might Be Giants Podcast
• This Week in Tech
• Tiki Bar TV
• || Mobile Ditty ||

• AdBlock
• BugMeNot
• ConQuery
• FoxyTunes
• SearchPluginHacks
• SessionSaver

• Ani’s Helm’n’Cloak Toggle
• CT_RaidAssist
• Dwarf/Gnome/Pirate Swearing Mod (which requires ChatAlias to run)
• Eloquence
• flagRSP
• GroupCalendar
• Guildstat
• HonorInPercent
• LangCommand
• Roleplaying Helper
• WoW Reader