Cheat Sheet: 4 Things You Missed While Living Your Life

October 16, 2009 at 12:50 pm, by Catherine LeFebvre

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I can’t get over these pictures, taken by “adventurous photographers…armed with a waterproof camera and perfect timing.” So pretty, so powerful. See more photos.

2. Balloon Boy
For hours on Thursday, the country was gripped by images of a homemade balloon floating above Colorado with a 6-year-old boy believed to be inside. The balloon came down empty, and the boy was found at home hiding in his attic. But during the ordeal, Twitter exploded with virtual hysteria: almost immediate #balloonboy and #saveballoonboy hash tags and even claims that the boy was found dead. It struck me that Twitter is great for breaking news – I saw the story on Twitter before I got an alert from the AP – but I wonder how healthy it is for us to be able to whip ourselves into a frenzy so easily. Did you guys tweet about the story? We certainly did, but we couldn’t believe how fast the story moved there.

3. Susan Klebold: “I Will Never Know Why”
A decade after Dylan Klebold took part in the massacre at Columbine High School, his mother, Susan Klebold, wrote an essay sharing her story. Klebold says she had “no inkling” that her son was suicidal until she read his journals after the 1999 shootings.”For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused,” she wrote.

4. A Day at the Office