October 2009
66 posts
BREATHE DEEP AND LET GO OF THINGS -- alternative... →
Adam Greenfield’s “Breathe Deep and Let Go of Things” tee is a nice variant on the classic WWII “Keep Calm and Carry On” posters that crowded graced England’s streets during the Blitz (by…
We’re on Twitter! →
Keeping a blog is fun, and it’s just as fun to bring you the same coverage on Twitter — plus, it’s 10 times as easy! We’re still covering all the stories you don’t find anywhere else: nudes…
'Good Without God,' Atheist Subway Ads Proclaim →
An ad that promotes atheism will run in dozen subway stations in Manhattan for a month starting next Monday.
The Feds And The Weed →
Hunter Walker translates the news:
Barack Obama is telling the feds to stop, like, totally freaking out, man, and take it easy on medical marijuana. Two
Justice Department officials told the…
The Jewing Of The Bible →
The Forward runs a rave of Robert Crumb’s new illustrated Old Testament. It is, indeed, breathtaking:
Unlike previous Biblical comic adaptations, including some published and drawn by Jews,…
Breaking News: President Obama Issues New Medical... →
In what can only be described as major departure in the so-called ‘war on drugs’, the Obama Administration is issuing a new three page memo this morning mapping out the federal government’s new…
Are Videogames The New B Movies? →
Peter Suderman speculates:
Absurd, mega-budget summer blockbusters like Transformers and G.I. Joe
have siphoned off a lot of the energy that used to go into making
moderately priced genre…
Dead guy on balcony 4 days, neighbors mistook for... →
The body of a 75-year-old LA area man who died Monday sat decomposing on his balcony for four days because his neighbors figured the corpse was part of a Halloween display. He died of a single…
Dead guy on balcony 4 days, neighbors mistook for... →
The body of a 75-year-old LA area man who died Monday sat decomposing on his balcony for four days because his neighbors figured the corpse was part of a Halloween display. He died of a single…
Ted Turner: My Millions Were ‘Kind of Like a... →
Ted Turner’s interview with Bloomberg TV, the one in which he says he wishes he was still in charge of CNN, came out today. In it, he discussed nostalgically the times when he did have the money…
Greenwich Residents Forced to Sell Heirlooms Off... →
Once a handsome, genteel suburb, Greenwich, Connecticut, has fallen into disrepair over the past year, as its residents struggle with increases in crime, unemployment, and vermin. Now, a new…
EVERYONE'S IN A HURRY TO SCREAM RACISM THESE... →
Everyone is in a hurry to scream ‘racism’ these days! ‘In what aisle could I find the Polish sausage?’ The clerk looks at him and says, ‘Are you Polish?’ The guy (clearly offended) says, ‘Well,…
What Next For New York Magazine? - New York... →
New York magazine owner Bruce Wasserstein died yesterday. So did a clear vision of New York’s stable future. Who’s next to control one of the city’s shiniest media properties?
EDITORIAL: Editorial: Yes to wine, no to whine →
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.
The Brooklyn Paper
We were pleased that Community Board 1 rejected the complaints of a misguided minority of Williamsburg residents on Wednesday…
How to Increase Your Own Prosperity Part 3: Ask... →
How can you create prosperity for yourself, your family and the community? Gay Hendricks explains how to attract positive change and create the life you want, in this last blog of a three-part…
Unwiring Wired [Exits] →
For a digital bible, Wired has been turning surprisingly analog over the past year. The latest regressions: The publication just fired two top editors from Wired.com and may soon lose the founders…
Fruits Of A Jobless Recovery →
Michael Roston:
If there is anything that shows the divide between Wall Street and Main
Street, it’s the contrast between a day when the stock market gleefully
returns to five-digit territory,…
PARK SLOPE: No blotter from the Slope this morning... →
Cops were on far more important duty today: Cracking down on drivers using cellphones.
Art Predicting Life →
MIT’s Technology Review ponders a 17th century CE painting that depicts a telescope not invented at the time the painting was made…
It’s hard to find an invention more emblematic of…
1777 Steganography →
Fascinating.
Art Predicting Life →
MIT’s Technology Review ponders a 17th century CE painting that depicts a telescope not invented at the time the painting was made…
It’s hard to find an invention more emblematic of…
Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – On the Nobel Prize for... →
Farms as skyscrapers →
It’s been a decade since Columbia University professor Dickson Despommier launched his “Vertical Farm” project, devoted to the design of skyscrapers that house farms, instead of people or…
Healthcare one step closer | Michael Tomasky →
US healthcare reform will pass. There will be heart-attack moments along the way, but it’s now one big step closer to reality
Life keeps insisting on being interesting.
It was just before 3pm…
Mental Health Break →
If Girl Talk made a movie: (Hat tip: BF)
DataQuick: SoCal home sales "inch up" →
From DataQuick: Southern California home sales inch up; median price steady
Last month 21,539 new and resale houses and condos sold in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino…
JPMorgan Proposes More 'Extend and... →
From an article by Jody Shenn and Dawn Kopecki on Bloomberg: JPMorgan Pitches Interest-Only Mortgages to Boost Obama Plan
Banks will push the Obama administration to expand its…
HILARIOUS CAT FIGHT →
Six-year-old boy faces reform school for eating... →
A six-year-old boy who wanted to eat lunch at school with his favourite camping utensil, a combination of folding fork, knife and spoon, now faces 45 days in reform school.
Hundreds of people…
Dell Tries for a Rebirth of Cool →
Dell has just teamed up with Vice Magazine, they of the Do’s & Don’ts, to create a new news site/blog/coolness injector called Motherboard.tv. After those strange, heady days of the Dell…
LADYPAT: COCAINE TALK →
How to run, meditate, and not get hurt →
It’s a brisk Saturday afternoon in San Francisco, and I’m standing outside of Sports Basement with a metronome in my hand. Several hundred feet away, a guy in a funny hat is running around…
Tree used for missing persons flier now missing →
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Eerie!
For several weeks now, there has been a “missing persons” flier attached to the tree right on Avenue A at Ninth Street. I don’t recall all the details — a young man had not…
Atlantic Yards Court Case Begins Wednesday →
Oral arguments in Goldstein v. New York State Urban Development Corporation, the case regarding use of eminent domain for the Atlantic Yards development, will begin tomorrow in the state’s…
Calling all investors, consumers and moms: what do... →
In an effort to expand our online engagement around financial regulatory reform, the White House is trying something new.
The President’s speech on Friday was covered by a number of blogs,…
MySpace’s U.S. Traffic Falls Off a Cliff →
Despite some recent innovations by the former king of social networking (as well as a CEO replacement), it looks like the MySpace exodus is rapidly accelerating. Can MySpace’s…
Quote For The Day →
“It’s often forgotten or obscured, but the central political fact now is
that the Democratic Party controls everything in Washington — from the
branches of government to favors doled out to…
Mystery Google: The “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button... →
The Mystery Google website offers a seriously strange riff on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button: instead of taking you to the number one result for your own query, it takes you to the…
Google Hops On A New Satellite To Watch Us From... →
Last year, there was a lot of coverage of Google striking a deal with satellite imagery company GeoEye to be able to use the high resolution images from its new GeoEye-1 satellite for…
So, Tweetie 2 Is Awesome. What’s Next? →
As we noted on Friday, Tweetie 2, the new iPhone Twitter client by Atebits, launched in the App Store. We did a preview of it a few weeks ago, noting that it was the best Twitter client…
What chimps can teach us - msnbc.com →
What chimps can teach us msnbc.com Let me give you an example: There was a juvenile chimpanzee at a zoo in Sweden who had a rope wrapped twice around its neck, and…
This Week, Google Boldly Goes Where It Has Been A... →
Like us, it appears that Google is a big fan of movies and television. It has dubbed this week “Go Mobile” week not for any real product reason, but rather because this week marks the…
Face to face with the Turner prize 09 →
Tate Britain, London SW1, until 3 Jan
A piquant vision at this year’s Turner prize preview: tabloid snappers in search of sensation. They trawled the elegant prints and gold paintings without…
Can maths tell the future? →
Meet the professor who can seemingly predict political events using a laptop
Let’s start with some news from the near future. Iran won’t build a nuclear bomb. With extra aid money, Pakistan…
Getting everyone online 'would save billions' →
Government’s Digital Inclusion Task Force unveils research showing economy could receive boost of more than £20bn
The founder of lastminute.com, Martha Lane Fox, has unveiled an ambitious…
The missing: Each year, 275,000 Britons disappear →
Odd place, Britain. Every day, 13 million CCTV cameras track our movements. We’re PIN-numbered, databased, credit-rated, nannied, Neighbourhood Watched, Facebooked, emailed and GPS-ed. You wouldn’t…
Farms as skyscrapers →
It’s been a decade since Columbia University professor Dickson Despommier launched his “Vertical Farm” project, devoted to the design of skyscrapers that house farms, instead of people or…
To infinity and beyond →
She created some of the most thrilling, space-age buildings in Britain with her husband Jan Kaplicky. Now Amanda Levete is going it alone
The moment I walk through the bright red door to…
Books of The Times: Up to Her Neck in Pink Ribbons... →
Barbara Ehrenreich thinks the prevalence of bogus optimism has weakened America, and she is willing to shoot fish in barrels to make that case.
DoBro Rental Apocalypse Nears As New Towers Hit... →
Luxury rentals: that’s what the Downtown Brooklyn market’s been missing lately. But never fear, DoBro’s developers are here! Apartments in three neighborhood luxury towers are about to go up…