Culture-Jamming Decapitator Hacks London Ads

I'm glad to see that the subversive art of culture-jamming is being kept alive in an appropriately gory and 'stumpified' form."Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been targeting the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag - eerily removing the...

The Origin of the Twelve Days of Christmas

"The Origin of the Twelve Days of Christmas You're all familiar with the Christmas song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" I think. To most it's a delightful nonsense rhyme set to music. But it had a quite serious purpose when it was written. It is a good deal more than just a...

Letter To Mahmoud

"Earlier today, n2l pointed me to a blog called Rantings of a Sandmonkey. There was a video with Arab children in military garb, guns, and banners, one of them even dressed up as a suicide bomber. It was ghastly. It was also the kind of thing we'€™ve come to expect from the...

Token Booth Closings Start in April

The first nine of the 164 token booths scheduled for closing will be shut down in April. The Daily News says the first retired booths will include ones in Union Square and Penn Station, and then the remaining booths will close weekly until October. Then, 600 of the clerks...

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