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Watertown Restaurant Strip-T's at the Center of Police Activity

The picture of the restaurant on its Facebook page. If you've been watching the coverage of the Boston bombing on any of the networks, you know the suspected Chechnyan Tsarnaev brothers apparently lived on Willow Street in Watertown. Right around the corner, and front-and-center in many of the liv ... More >>

Rage Against the Machinima

As the stakes get higher on YouTube, video stars are finding safety—and power—in numbers

The Google Riis

Rightbloggers Turn Benghazi Truthers, Spin Egypt, Libya Riots As Obama Treason

Last week, upon learning that an anti-Islamic film existed, extremists in several Arab cities rampaged, and in Benghazi killed four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton denounced both the violence and the film, and Libyan authorities apprehended so ... More >>

Breastfeeding Porn: Like Regular Porn...But With Milk

A New Jersey woman is suing an Iowa-based marketing company after a video it shot of her breastfeeding her daughter was converted into "breastfeeding porn" and circulated across the Internet.Until today, we didn't know "breastfeeding porn" was even a thing. So, naturally, we spent a good chunk of ou ... More >>

Middle-Aged Women Are Annoying, Says The Internet

Wow.

Google and James Cameron: Asteroid Miners?

Looks like Bruce Willis's mining team from Armageddon could be employed again. In a relatively strange press release, according to the Wall Street Journal, a new, fittingly named company called Planetary Resources, Inc. has teamed up with none other than the high officials at Goo ... More >>

What We Talk About When We Talk About SOPA

SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act, is the latest congressional move to put an end to the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material. The basic idea of SOPA -- now considered in the House of Representatives -- and its Senate analog, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, purportedly aims at ... More >>

New York City Rat Bites: Be Afraid

​One hundred New Yorkers are bitten by rats every year. Clearly, that's 100 too many. But mercifully, rat bites are down this year -- only 29 people have reported being attacked by rats so far in 2011. Have the rats become complacent, or have humans simply developed better defenses? The only t ... More >>

Google Hates Fat People, NYC Woman Claims

​About 20 people were battling for a chance to work for Google, one of the richest, most powerful and best employers in all the land, but seven people were cut from the hiring contest along the way, like some type of cutthroat Mark Burnett production. But everyone removed just happened to be a ... More >>

Today's 100-Minute Lunar Eclipse Will Be Presented by the Internet

​Alert: There will be a massive lunar eclipse, today, the first in 2011! It will start at 2:20 Eastern time. However, you won't be able to actually see it in real life, unless you happen to live in the eastern portion of Africa, the Middle East, central Asia, or western Australia. North Americ ... More >>

American Idol: Jacob Lusk, You Were Too Good For This Show

Michael Becker/FOXFarewell, Jacob. ​It always happens. My end-to-end favorite contestant has never, ever won American Idol. They usually do pretty well, but they always flame out within a few weeks of the finish line because of some combination of nerves, bad choices, mass bad taste, and the f ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: Can You Name All Four Bands on No New York?

​A few weeks ago, James Murphy, reluctant voice to a generation of record-obsessed man-children, announced that LCD Soundsystem was going to call it quits, culminating in a fascinating pushing-and-shoving match for farewell concert tickets. Seriously, it was like Black Friday for doughy people ... More >>

In Support of Jack Weppler's Meme-Making Ex-Girlfriend

​Over the weekend, Gawker told the story of Jack Weppler, whose angry or hilarious (both?) ex-girlfriend ran a corny picture of the kid through Meme Generator, laying mocking, sometimes offensive phrases over his face about his fashion sense or aspirations. Then the whole internet got in on th ... More >>

New Yorkers Statistically Crazy About Brunch

Carolyn Coles/FlickrEggs Benedict, brunch's bête noir.​Finally, some statistical confirmation that we as a city have a bizarre compulsion to spend our weekend mornings lined up outside of eating establishments.

Barack Obama Holds "Slurpee Summit"; Google Investigated for Antitrust; Rock Center Xmas Tree Lights Up

​• President Obama will meet with congressional leaders from both parties today -- a/k/a, the "Slurpee summit," actual Slurpees TBD -- to discuss a number of issues, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and tax cuts. Can some ice shavings and food coloring bring peace to this nation ... More >>

Facebook to Introduce "Gmail Killer" Email

​Facebook is the place for your friends, your farms...and starting soon, it will be the place for your email. According to TechCrunch, the email client is expected to be announced on Monday during a special event Mark Zuckerberg is hosting in California.

Fun Facts About Google's First Employee

​Craig Silverstein met Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford before the turn of the century and became the robot car-creating search engine giant's first employee. Allegedly he is a human. Needless to say, he's never needed another job and didn't even finish his doctorate. This weeke ... More >>

Bedbugs Continue Campaign of Shock and Ew, Employing Guerrilla Tactics at Google, 311

​Bedbugs have reportedly now encroached upon Google's offices in Chelsea and -- isn't it ironic -- New York City's own 311 offices, right where you're supposed to call if you think you have a bedbug infestation. Meta. Per NY1, the call center in Lower Manhattan was fumigated Tuesday night after a ... More >>

How Did 4Chan and Gawker Get Chris Hansen "Arrested" for Child Molestation?

​Chris Hansen -- the host of NBC's infamous child sex scandal exploitation show To Catch A Predator -- was not arrested for child molestation. Yet "chris hansen arrested for child molestation" is a "volcanic"-level trending Google search, currently ranked in the top spot. How did this happen a ... More >>

Gmail: Now Making Your Phone Calls, Too

​Today, Google took one more step toward world domination when they announced that people will now be able to make phone calls through Gmail. This feature means you can receive phone calls with your Google Voice number, place calls as you normally would but through Gmail (which you're probably ... More >>

Google Wave Finally Available to the World. But Does Anyone Care?

Back in the day, like last October, we were ravenously scavenging for that coveted Google Wave invite that was going to change the way we communicated online forever and ever. Some crazies even bid $5000 for one on eBay. Then we actually got it and the hype immediately died.

¡Ask a Mexican! Rebel Amnesty?

The Know-Nothings have been holding out on the Mexican

Latest Google Trend Surprisingly Cultural

​Well, at last, after all the "Why Won't My Parakeet Eat My Diarrhea" nonsense, we're seeing a Google Trend "On Fire" item that speaks well of the readership: "charles i insulted by cromwell s soldiers." The news hook is that the 1833 Paul Delaroche painting of roundheads harassing the soon-to ... More >>

Under the Toque: Chang Cooks for Google; Animal-Nieporent Rumor Denied

​The now-defunct Chanterelle's David Waltuck and his team are no longer consulting for Macao Trading Co. Erik Cereceres has taken over the kitchen there. [NY Times] Petite Crevette chef-owner Neil Ganic reportedly went nuts on a couple who were unhappy with their lobster. The couple says he c ... More >>

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 conveni ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 abo ... More >>

Sam Sifton To Replace Bruni

​Brooklynite Sam Sifton, currently the cultural news editor at the New York Times, will replace Frank Bruni as restaurant critic. Sifton was a former editor of the Dining section, founding editor of Talk magazine, and was a restaurant critic at The New York Press in the 90's. Clearly, the Ti ... More >>

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 Z ... More >>

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 tu ... More >>

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 Googl ... More >>

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'Learning 2.0' Brings Schools into the Digital Age

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Brooklyn Book Fest Quotables, Starring Richard Price

Two Ways of Understanding the Subprime Meltdown

Stephin Merritt On Why He Only Dresses in Brown

Back to the Clubs, Everybody

The prime spots for your first big '08 hangover

Mike Bloomberg, Free at Last

But while a Republican, the mayor made quite a contribution to the party

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

Monday-Morn Cred Sheet: Grammys, PLUG Awards, Michael Stipe sighting

Use Your Noodles

Slurping is encouraged late into the night at Fujianese newcomer

That Heat

Chi-Town deep thinkers innovated for the sake of future days

Game for Greenpoint?

O, You Cosh-Boned Posers!

Awful poems sought and found: From spam to Google, flarf redefines random

Spankee Doodle Dandy

Dildo Delights

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