Subject: Google Inc.

• LCD Soundsystem Weekend: After-Party Info For Saturday

  March 28, 2007

• Folded Clothing as Art, Walls

  January 18, 2007

• Obsessive Guide to Saturday Night Live Needs You

  November 1, 2006

• Adventures in Google's Contextual Advertising

  December 20, 2007

• Stephin Merritt On Why He Only Dresses in Brown

  February 19, 2008

• Hollywood's Lost Its Mind Again With My Fair Lady Remake

  June 11, 2008

• Why It's Hell to Be a Bottom

  July 18, 2008

• Brooklyn Book Fest: from Joan Didion to Gossip Girl

  September 15, 2008

• Google Founders Roll Out (ha ha) Android T-Mobile Phone

  September 23, 2008

• We Knew This Web Thing Was Just a Fad

  October 23, 2008

• Daily Flog: Monkey-wrenching the vote -- count on it

  October 29, 2008

• Google Exec to Obama Transition Team

  November 6, 2008

• MTA Unveils Images from Unaffordable Second Ave. Subway

  November 7, 2008

• Online Drink-Buying Service Saves Christmas

  December 10, 2008

• It's Raining Meat... Already!

  The long awaited trailer for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has been released on YouTube. The animated adaptation of the popular children's book, written and illustrated by husband-and-wife team Judi and Ron Barrett, is expected to be out in September. We're so excited, we can barely hold on to our cheeseburgers. [via Serious Eats]

  March 19, 2009

• 'Learning 2.0' Brings Schools into the Digital Age

  October 22, 2008

• O, You Cosh-Boned Posers!

  August 17, 2004

• Who Are I?

  June 26, 2007

• Game for Greenpoint?

  July 11, 2006

• Publishers vs. the Censorbot

  August 1, 2006

• Of Montreal+Janelle Monae

  April 8, 2009

• 'Dumb Motherf*cker' Still Takes Surfers to Bush Site

  January 23, 2001

• Crush

  February 4, 2003

• Search Me

  February 11, 2003

• Trojan XL

  October 14, 2003

• Books

  December 9, 2003

• Books

  December 30, 2003

• We Are the Borg

  February 8, 2005

• Life From Above

  April 19, 2005

• Blue Chipping

  June 21, 2005

• Google: The New Port Authority

  September 5, 2006

• Are You Nuts4Pot?

  Photo by specialkrb @ Flickr This Google Map was supposedly created for school credit--Mr. Dimalo's class, to be precise. It features 10 honey roasted nuts vendors in New York who also sell pot. Actually, it's nine. One of them is a hot dog vendor. According to the GMap: "yo this guy sold hot dogs not nuts but mr dimalo said i have got to have 10 and any way he sold us pot in the summer when some white boys were playing keyboards dude this park would be aight."

  April 6, 2009

• Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining

  April 24, 2007

• All Hail

  June 20, 2006

• Eaters Follow Food Trucks on Twitter; De Niro Talks about the Food Biz

  Popular food trucks are using Twitter to alert their patrons where they'll be and when. Korean-style taco vendors, the Kogi BBQ trucks, started using 140-character messages to communicate with customers, as well as build their customer base, and other street vendors are doing the same. [AP via Google] Following salmonella and E. coli outbreaks among people who ate popular frozen foods in the past few years, food companies are placing the responsibility for not getting sick on the consumer by br

  May 18, 2009

• Doodle 4 Google Winner Announced.

  Oh cute: Google has announced its Doodle for Google art contest winner. It's Christin Engelberth of Bernard A. Harris Jr High School in San Antonio, Texas, and here's her prize piece, selected by a panel of judges from Google, the Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, and the National Design Museum. She's in sixth grade. 39 of the finalists are on display at Cooper Hewitt at 2 East 91st Street now through July 5. The young finalists stuck to positive, one-world and environmental themes, which are not

  May 21, 2009

• Organic Farmers Suffer Losses; Prisoners Excercise Their Green Thumbs

  Organic farmers are feeling the sting of the organic food trend slowing. Dairy farmers, especially, are suffering, and many have been told to cut milk production by up to 20 percent. The slowdown, combined with the high cost of transporting organic feed from the Midwest has caused 32 dairy farms in Vermont to close since Dec. 1. [NY Times] What do a group of Ohio convicts have in common with Michelle Obama? They both are growing their own food. Prisoners at a jail in Fremont help tend to about

  May 29, 2009

• Drowned in Sound Unveil "Music Criticism R.I.P.?" Week; Music Critics Wonder Whether the Question Mark Is Really Necessary

  U.K. rock-crit outpost Drowned in Sound is devoting most of its content this week to the question of whether rock-crit outposts will even exist a year, a month, a day from now. After an an editor's intro referencing new Voice columnist Christopher R. Weingarten's morbid Twitter-conference star turn (as seen above, still love the hat), we get one-time Voice columnist Everett True eulogizing literally-one-time Voice columnist Steven Wells, a rumination on recently shuttered rock mag Plan B, and

  July 14, 2009

• Food Cart Wars Give Way to Fruit Wars; College Students Get Cooking in Their Dorm Rooms

  Burger and taco trucks aren't the only mobile food enterprises at war in New York. The battle between fruit carts has been escalating as vendors ignore the unwritten rule about staying off each other's turf. [NY Times] The economic downturn has led more New Yorkers to cook at home, according to a Zagat survey. The results of the study were released along with the expanded and renamed New York City Food Lover's Guide, which covers some 2,000 food shops, cheese shops, butchers, candy stores, and

  July 15, 2009

• New York's Rotten Tree Menace Claims Another Victim in Central Park

  ​Didn't we warn you about the trees? In 2007 we saw them crush cars in Brooklyn. Last summer, after a series of arboreal assaults, a tree on NYC Transit property severely conked a woman in Queens -- and the hits just kept a-comin'. In September a tree smashed a windshield, injuring a driver. In December a tree-fall in Central Park injured no one but raised, as we like to say in this business, questions. Now the trees have claimed another victim. Maybe now the city will pay attention, bec

  July 30, 2009

• Vintage Voice: Read Our Old Stories at Google!

  ​Google has finally uploaded our back issues, which stretch all the way back to our debut on October 26, 1955, online. (It cost five cents then; it costs you nothing now. Vive le Internet!) Interestingly, Google's news blog announcement links to Lester Bangs' classic Iggy story, "Blowtorch in Bondage." You can read that whole issue -- the one pictured, from March 28, 1977, and apparently featuring Spinal Tap -- and hundreds of others. Read long-unseen Feiffer cartoons and Andrew Sarris' pr

  August 4, 2009

• What the Hell Is the "Hello Cow" Song?

  In the seedy underbelly of the internet that is Google's Hot Trends--"Vanessa Hudgens pictures leaked" (leaked?), "steven tyler dead," "lady gaga hermaphrodite picture," etc.--now comes "Hello Cow," a song that's been tearing up Google's charts all day, despite no real identifiable information about why America cares about this terrible song? It has something to do with Fox News and Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly and their program America's Newsroom, which I guess just did a feature on dairy cows

  August 7, 2009

• Google's Voice Archives Far From Complete

  ​The Voice archives at Google are not complete. Far from it, in fact.We sent over tapes of the newspaper's entire history a couple of years ago, and we've been looking forward to Google making the archives public and searchable.So we were very excited when, earlier this week, Google made them available.That's led to hours of enjoyable surfing of the Voice's illustrious past. But it also became quickly obvious that Google may have jumped the gun.The list of missing months and years from the pap

  August 7, 2009

• Fallen Trees in Central Park are a Warning: Chop Them Before They Conk Us

  We warned you and we warned you and we warned you and we warned you and we warned you about the trees. But did anyone listen? Now, just weeks after a Google employee was bashed into a coma by a falling oak limb in Central Park, Wednesday night's storm left the Park littered with fallen trees and branches. Now picture a sudden storm on a pleasant summer afternoon with lots of people under those trees. It's bad enough no one heeds our warning the animals are trying to kill us -- the more presen

  August 20, 2009

• Who the Internet Thinks You Are

  ​ This is eerie. You plug in your first and last name, and this web app gives a picture of how the internet sees you. The website, created as part of an MIT art installation Metropath(ologies), is meant as a critique of data mining efforts by Google, Netflix, and the U.S. Government. In a statement on the project, the authors say: We typically are never given the chance to see the decision making process that ranks some webpage in the fourth slot for a specific Google Query, and most c

  August 28, 2009

• The Blueprint 3 Springs a Leak

  ​Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 seems to be arriving a little ahead of schedule: the Kanye-featuring/Kanye-produced "Hate," "Thank You" (also produced by Kanye), and "A Star Is Born," featuring J. Cole, have all burst out onto the internet in the last few hours, and there are intimations of more to come in the very near future--for instance, if you were to Google "Empire State of Mind" right now, well, we wouldn't be responsible for what you'd find. Timbaland, the guy who leaked the previous three Ja

  August 31, 2009

• Google and Twitter Slow To Take Down Slanderous Impersonation of a Scientology Critic

  ​Last week, Mark Bunker reminded us that over the summer, some scumbag had hijacked his identity and in his name was spewing anti-Islamic hate over a Twitter account and a Blogger website. We were shocked to hear that the identity theft was still going on. Back when he'd first told us about it in July, we figured it would only take a few e-mails from Bunker to Twitter and Blogger (which is owned by Google) to take down the offending accounts. But no. Months later, some coward was still o

  October 5, 2009

• Murdoch Scores "Kleptomaniac" News Sites, Calls to Make Them Pay

  ​Everyone says newspapers are dead (except in New York, city of seven dailies), but Rupert Murdoch has found a way to bring them back to life: making "aggregators and plagiarists" (presumably meaning sites like Google News and Drudge) pay the content-providing news orgs whose works they blurb on the internet. "Large media organizations have been submissive in the face of the flat-earthers who insisted that all content should be free all the time," said the News Corp head at a recent Wo

  October 9, 2009

• Booze News: Two-Buck Chuck Gets Served; Fruit Flies Help Fight Alcoholism

  ​What does your beer say about you? According to recent research, people who prefer domestic beers over craft beers or imports are generally middle of the road in their politics. People who don't drink beer at all tend to be conservative. [AdAge] Look out, Two-Buck Chuck. The 7-Eleven convenience store chain is releasing two low-priced proprietary wines in the United States and Japan. The Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon, both from California, will retail for about $3.99 a bottle. [AP/Go

  November 10, 2009

• Tech News: First Tweets, Captioned YouTube, Parking Spot Finder, Commenter Loses Job

  ​ Put your Twitter username in My First Tweet and they'll display your initial message to the Twitterverse. Yeah, for most of us it's just a matter of scrolling, and if you put in one of the big names you get a "Too Many Tweets" error. Still it's new, tech, and wastes time, so we thought you should know. Google announces it will soon caption YouTube videos for the hearing impaired. It's using Google's speech recognition technology, so expect some humorous misreadings, but all told a bi

  November 19, 2009