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Bryce Pilaf And Other Great Drag Queen Names

Here's my latest batch of fabulous names for drag queens. Pick one--any one--and then start tucking, babes! Donna Thedead Rosie Future Tama Shanter

How to Make a Mezcal Cocktail for the Mayan Apocalypse from PDT

As much as it petrifies us to write this sentence, the Mayan apocalypse is slated to destroy the universe on December 21. Bummer? Definitely. Why not drink away your fears with a Mezcal cocktail created specifically for the world's implosion PDT's managing partner and mixologist extraordinaire, Jim ... More >>

Sorry Has Nothing to Be Sorry For

The Public mounts Richard Nelson's moving new play

A Guide to Last Minute Apple Picking in Upstate New York

Apple season is just about ending and now is the time to squeeze in a last minute orchard trip before the weather gets too cold and the apples are gone for the year. And if you're not too fond of apples, there are plenty of pumpkins as well. Over the weekend, I rented a Zipcar with a couple of frien ... More >>

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Drug Resistant Head Lice: Here's Something Else To Worry About!

The good news: Drug resistant head lice will not eat your brain! The bad news: Drug resistant head lice might actually be a thing! An item posted today on the Greening the Apple, the Environmental Protection Agency's New York City blog, suggests that these nasty bugs have gotten better at doing ... More >>

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Sen. Chuck Schumer Champions Push To Protect Privacy Of Smartphone Sexters

​Bad news, smart phone users: those penis private pics you snapped with your iPhone aren't as private as you'd probably hoped.Senator Chuck Schumer to the rescue.Schumer today announced that he's asked the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation into whether smart phone apps on Apple a ... More >>

100 & Single: Can Katy Perry Turn The States' Post-Christmas No. 1 Race Into Something UKrazy?

​Thanks to her husband, Katy Perry considers herself as an honorary Brit. But as the most frequent current inhabitant of the Billboard charts, she must wish we were all anglophiles. If only America had a Christmas No. 1 competition as rabid and media-fueled as Old Blighty's! Katy would have t ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Today's Hot Gadgets Will Be Tomorrow's Landfill

The fire next time

Think Different: Rightbloggers Mourn the Death of Noted Conservative Hippie-Hater Steve Jobs

The death last week of Apple founder Steve Jobs was sad news for his friends, family, and the computer and design world in general. Rightbloggers mostly took it as an occasion to tell the world that Jobs was right-wing -- or, if not right-wing in the sense of having actually expressed right-wing be ... More >>

Steve Jobs Portrait Already in National Portrait Gallery

The deification of recently deceased Steve Jobs continues apace. A 1982 portrait of the Apple chief by Diana Walker is now being displayed on the first floor of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian. It's a pretty amazing photo:

Live: Black Rob Gets Back To Basics At The Apple Store

​ Black Rob Apple Store (SoHo) Wednesday, July 27 Better than: Waiting around the Genius Bar while a new trackpad gets installed in your MacBook. "Things are different now. There are computers. Dudes are going in with the computers", Black Rob proclaimed with a grin. Despite the obvious iro ... More >>

Why America's E. Coli Response Makes Germany's Look Like Scheiße

​Each week, Death by Science gets on its hands and knees and crawls around, searching the dark world of science and technology. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you call your best bud and go, "Wha--?" This week, we examine why Germany's E. Coli outbreak has been ... More >>

Apple Drops 'Gay Cure' iPhone App

​The iPhone app meant to "provide support for individuals who want to recover from homosexuality" was initially approved by Apple for inclusion in the App Store, only to be removed after an outcry from groups like Truth Wins Out and Change.org, where a petition gathered nearly 150,000 signatur ... More >>

The Daily Ditching iPad-Only For Android App ASAP; TBD.com Dismantled, Doomed

​After three weeks of publication as the world's first-ever iPad newspaper, reports are trickling out that News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch's pet project, The Daily, will be migrating to a second platform, the Android tablet, in the second quarter of 2011. The news comes barely 20 issues since M ... More >>

Corgis Doing Things (Video)

Corgis, the favored breed of the British royals, are versatile little dogs. They can run on treadmills; use Apple products; they can even play tetherball! Hopefully this will inspire you to watch the Puppy Bowl, which you should be doing.

iPad Newspapers Will Never Be Free, Steve Jobs Commands; Plus, The Daily Release Delayed

​Steve Jobs has reportedly decreed that no paid newspaper subscribers overseas shall receive a free iPad edition through the App Store because that shorts Apple their 30% cut, according to the Dutch deVolkskrant, as relayed by AppleInsider. This comes on the same day MediaMemo announces that R ... More >>

Presidential Pardoned Turkeys Screwed Out of Trip to Disneyland

​Today President Obama did his annual Thanksgiving thing in the Rose Garden, reflecting on our grand holiday traditions and wishing Americans a happy turkey-day. And, most importantly, pardoning some turkeys.

Florence The Machine Are Playing a Free Show at the Apple Store Today, In Case You Missed Last Night's Terminal 5 Festivities

This photo was taken last night, and therefore not on Halloween, though who could tell, really?​Well, if you thought the flowing white dress/rock harpist/crowd-jumping-in-unison thing was tough to pull off in the spacious, windy confines of Terminal 5, just way till she tries to do it under th ... More >>

Marketers Are Totally Judging You Based on the TV Shows You Watch

​AdAge has a fascinating little piece on what TV shows you watch and how that relates to the brands you like, based on information from "psychographic" (eek) "ad targeter" Mindset Media. The data was self-reported by about 25,000 TV viewers across 70-plus shows, most of which ended up attract ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Robe ... More >>

Morning Links: Carl Paladino to Make "Major" TV Announcement; Lou Dobbs' Illegal Immigrant Trouble; Verizon iPhone Update

​• New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino has bought a block of TV time with the three network affiliates in Buffalo and is expected to make a "major" announcement today at 5:13 p.m. Don't bet that he's dropping out. But is he still angry?[NYDN] • The stream of red, toxic sludge f ... More >>

Apple to Announce New and Improved Version of Now-Outdated Thing You Just Purchased on September 1st

​Does Apple really have to throw themselves a whole big event party thing every time they roll out a product? It's not that they aren't informative -- they are -- it's more that they feel like a company who just sold you a $500 piece of electronics which now makes you more available to people ... More >>

Jailbreaking Dongle Freedom! iPhone Users, DVD Copiers Oppressed No More!

​Have you ever wanted to play video games that Apple didn't sell on your iPhone? Have you ever wanted to use apps that Apple didn't sell on your iPhone? Have you ever wanted to switch carriers with your iPhone (because AT&T blows)? Have you ever wanted to copy a copy-protected DVD? Have ... More >>

Morning Links: Ordaining Women as Grave as Pedophilia, Says Vatican; Earthquake Strikes D.C.

​• Though the Vatican issued revisions to laws yesterday that would make it easier to discipline priests involved in sexual abuse (a good thing!), they also stated that ordaining women was as grave an offense as pedophilia, heresy, apostasy, or schism. Oh, Catholic Church. [NYT]

Gizmodo's iPhone Scoop: The Nick Denton Interview

Pictured, left to right: an Apple prototype iPhone, and Gawker Media owner Nick Denton covered in pie.​Maybe you heard, but yesterday, Gawker Media's gadget site Gizmodo published quite a story. It might be short of hyperbole to note their "get" of a new iPhone prototype as one of the biggest ... More >>

An Apple Seed is Planted in Brooklyn

An Apple Store Grows in Brooklyn from Marty Markowitz on Vimeo. Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz really wants to see Apple set up camp in Brooklyn. What this being the epicenter of Mac worship and all, Marty thought it would be a swell idea to pitch the idea to Steve Jobs via this ridiculo ... More >>

Make Bradford McDonald's Caramelized Diver Scallops with Apple, Verbena & Chanterelles from Crabtree's Kittle House

Caramelized Diver scallops with apple, verbena, and chanterelles from Crabtree's Kittle House​There's a lot of talk about farm to table these days. Chef Bradford McDonald, who once worked at Per Se and last year left the bright lights of Manhattan for the sleepy town of Chappaqua, practices wh ... More >>

Fifth Annual Afro-Punk Festival at BAM

This Weekend! Not-at-Bonnaroo-and-Don't-Care Defiance Edition

So it's awful outside, and your friends ditched you for Bonnaroo. Quit sulking; Tennessee is flooded in state troopers and Phish acolytes, while you have countless local offerings to gorge on. If you haven't already picked up your Northside Festival badge, order online for pickup at 60 North 6th St ... More >>

When Cretins Attack: I Was Crucified For Trashing a Homophobe!

All my media campaigning to mock half-naked moralist Carrie Prejean resulted in the mobilization of the nose-picking brigade to slime me right back. These deeply sensitive bigot protectors were most offended that I had joked that Carrie was once a homophobic man named Harry Prejean and the pageant h ... More >>

'Dub War vs Sub:Stance'

This Week in Booze

The Brief Return of Hannah Upp

HE’S ALWAYS ON MY MIND

Willie Nelson swings through the briar patch

Thursday 05/01

EEE! HARMONY

A discussion with a notorious filmmaker

Up to the Wire

It takes an intrepid listener to dig out of this year's jazz avalanche

Flicks: Beach House at Mercury Lounge

Sugar on My Tongue

Fade Out

The first rule of iPod club; now introducing Mr. Pussy Man

Cult Following

A holiday guide to coffee-table books with a jagged edge

The Un-Convention: When Hackers Attack, Resistance Is Futile

iPod, Annotated

An itinerant inkster bites Apple in NOHO—and the public bites back

Mac Daddy

Is the G5 a Must-Have for Apple Fans?

The Apple of Her Eye

Samira Makhmalbaf on Art and Ambition