Just over a year ago, prominent bloggers were declaring the death of Blu-ray. From tech.blorge, gearlog and even zdnet many were convinced that Blu-ray was going out the door and would soon be replaced with online streaming. According to t3 magazine, in an interview with Home...
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Two off duty EMTs left a Brooklyn Au Bon Pain shop after buying bagels, refusing to help a pregnant woman worker there who had collapsed, even as others pleaded with them. They told the others to call 9-11. Their Emergency Medical headquarters was...
Yesterday I received the surprise of my life when I opened up an email addressed to me by US Senator Chuck Schumers office. A letter I had written to the Senator regarding the Healthcare plan seemed to garner favorable notice by Chuck. In this return email I was addressed as...
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Will this new “interest-network” take off in 2010? Gravity (formerly Blue Rover Labs) is a start-up helmed by three former MySpace executives. Their aim is to reinvent forums by applying their proprietary analytics engine on conversations and monetize them via highly...
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As of last summer, I thought the debauched-road-trip-to-Vegas-with-buddies genre was pretty much played out. With pictures like Go and Very Bad Things out there, what else could a filmmaker toss in to the mix to keep it fresh? How about collective memory loss, a tiger, a...
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OK, I’ll get this out of the way first. Leaping headlong into the Terminator franchise isn’t advisable for any director who isn’t willing (or able) to match stunning, frame-by-frame visuals with a compelling story. What could have mowed down the competition last summer...
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Some angry gay marriage proponents in New York took their rage to a state Senator's doorstep this afternoon. Senator Carl Kruger was one of what gay advocates are calling "The Hate 38": Those 38 state senators who cast their votes against gay marriage this...
What is Blu-ray Also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), it is the name of a next-generation optical disc format. The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting, and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as to store large amounts of data. Why "Blu-ray" Blu-ray...
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The Del-Vikings is an American doo-wop musical group who recorded several hit singles in the 1950s and continued to record and tour with various lineups in later decades. The group was notable for being one of the...
Ebbets Field was the baseball stadium of the former Brooklyn Dodgers before they moved to California and became the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was bounded by Bedford Avenue, Sullivan Place, McKeever Place, and...
Two female teachers at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, NY were caught having sex in an empty classroom. The incident occurred on November 20th, when the school's janitor found a married teacher Alini...
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Audrey Johnson, a former girlfriend of NBA legend World B. Free, was killed Sunday in Brooklyn. Police say Audrey Johnson was shot in the head after she tried to break up a fight involving 25-year-old Laquan Williams, her niece's boyfriend. Audrey Johnson's 14-year-old...
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The bank foreclosure list of Sovereign Bank and that of Wachovia Bank contain foreclosed apartment complexes in South Florida. Among these are apartments in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade. " The bank...
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The U.S. government will pay $1.2 million in a settlement to five Muslim immigrants who were unjustly detained after 9/11. The 5 men were housed in a Brooklyn, N.Y. prison. According to the New York Times, the prison held hundreds of...
October 14th. The big chill was early, even for Albany. A press conference was being held in the park across from the New York Court of Appeals. The highest court in the state was set to hear Goldstein et al v. New York State Urban Development Corporation. The press...