Today is SEA Paddle NYC - a 28 mile paddle around the city for a good cause

Check out surf legend Gerry Lopez, the SquidForce and a hundred other talented waterman and woman: SEAPaddle NYC will start at 9:00am on Monday the 18th of August with an anticipated 100-150 participants starting...

Free Tibet UN Protest

There were nearly a thousand people near the UN in New York this afternoon protesting the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

Taleban issue mobile phone threat

The Taleban has ordered mobile phone carriers in Afghanistan to "turn off" its signals at night so that foreign troops can not track their movement or else they will blow them up (the towers that is). But before...

Wiretapping Made Easy

i read this forbes article about mobile intercepts (e.g. intercepting peoples' mobile phone conversations) and it got me thinking about mobile phone security. i guess i assumed that GSM was secure until i read...

Day Trading - check. Real Estate Flipping - Check. Selling Amway and Time Sha...

I read an interesting story at TreeHugger this morning about a California company that is recruiting twenty thousand people to help "manage" its new eco-friendly clothing line called Nvohk. This site, which is supported by TransWorld Surf, is looking to sell memberships at...

Protest at United Nations on September 18th against Iranian President Ahmadin...

People were setting up shop today at 47th and 2nd Avenue in anticipation for a rally across from United Nations on Tuesday September 18th, 2007 to protest Iranian President Ahmadinejad, wanted for crimes against...

CNN's news gathering plans are Now Public

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The CNN cable television news network said on Thursday it would stop using the Reuters news service, ending a 27-year relationship, to cut costs and invest in its own news gathering operations. The global television news network owned by the...

Are there really miracle diets?

The Catkins Diet is a very funny spoof video on the dieting industry. The logic behind it is simple: lose weight by losing your appetite. Check it out.

The Other Hummer Tax

I have a bird's eye view of the intersection of west 4th and horatio streets. Prostitutes work this corner pretty hard on the weekend and service mostly out of town clients; mostly, New Jersey license plates (yo, what up Jersey?). Let me breakdown the process: car pulls...

The right to bare (big) arms - New Jersey restaurant against dining in a tank...

Hopefully the Toms River "Lobster Shanty" is the exception and not the rule as it relates to its Tank Top policy. Taking the right of New Jersians from dining in a tank top would be like banning the beret in...

Truck plows through playground fence after driver blacks out

"WALL — A telephone company truck driver blacked out and his vehicle veered off the road, struck a traffic light stanchion, and then plowed through a playground fence, police said.Police said Richard O'Toole,...

Will NYC Street Art be a casualty of gentrification

I was walking down rivington on the LES yesterday and saw this awesome painting on the wall. The LES has changed significantly in recent history and i could only wonder if we'd lose great examples like this one as...

New York City is becoming too civilized

It wasn't too long ago that someone would happily clip your bike lock when it was chained in the wrong place. Now it looks like they attach a thoughtful not to the bike asking the owner to not park it there.

Verizon phone booth whacked on Greenwich Avenue, NYC

This phone booth got whacked by a car the other night on Greenwich Avenue, between Jane and West 12th Street.

Reuters receives takeover bid, shares soar

note to self, start buying old media company stock."Financial news and information provider Reuters Group said on Friday it had received a preliminary takeover approach from an unidentified suitor, sending its shares up more than 25 percent.Earlier, traders had reported...

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