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The Journal News Gun Owner Database Debacle

Whenever one's privacy is breached in the public sphere, there's always that awkward, immediate reaction when the reader asks, "Was that one too far?" Well, it depends on impact and damage; this was a main concern with WikiLeaks - "Did their privacy leaks put anyone in harm's way?" underlies every c ... More >>

WHEN FRIDAY COMES AROUND

All Tomorrow’s Parties curate your weekend of shows

Creepy Alert: Restaurants Know More About You Than You Think

I remember my first time at Eleven Madison Park. I was with two friends and while our waiter was cutting open the lavender honey duck, he looked me straight in the eye and noted that the duck was covered in Szechuan peppercorns. "I know that you're a food writer with a passion for Chinese food," he ... More >>

Chris Rock: "I Used To Be a Bit Of An Asshole!"

We discuss his most challenging role ever in 2 Days in New York: Me!

Google Says 'Happy Birthday' to Julia Child

[See More Good Stuff: More Than Mere Cilantro, a Guide to Mexican Herbs | Heirloom Bling, Heritage Birds] Today's Google doodle is of a happy Julia Child putting together a feast in the kitchen. Illustrator Willie Real discusses his process (and you can see some fun sketches of ideas that didn't ma ... More >>

For the Love of God, It's Not 'Downtown' Abbey!

Have you seen the extremely popular British period drama called "Downton Abbey"? It's all the rage right now. It won a Golden Globe! People are talking about it, watching it, DVR-ing it, weeping with joy and raising their glasses to it as we speak. And people and news organizations, which are bigger ... More >>

Chipotle Founder Named 'Innovator of the Year'; Consumers 'Ripped Off' When Buying Fish

​Just in case you were wondering, "Montezuma's Revenge" has not been a problem for athletes at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. [Washington Post] Kosher food is becoming more conventional in Berlin, post World War II. [Reuters] Restaurants are getting ready to raise prices as ... More >>

Goodbye Falafel, Hello Fries: Chipsy to Open on MacDougal This Summer

Lauren ShockeyChip-chop!​For those lamenting the loss of the Hummus Place at 99 MacDougal Street, don't fret too much (after all, you do have another location close by on Seventh Avenue South). Chipsy is set to open in the space formerly occupied by Hummus Place.

Google Music Beta-Testing Proceeding Just Fine, As Long As Users Aren't Interested In Actually Hearing Music

"Technologically speaking, then, Google Music--a streaming service users would access from Web-connected devices--appears close to being ready. However, the sources said the actual launch is being held up by the lack of one vital component. Music." --Everybody's talking about the news that in-house ... More >>

Google Maps is Moving Inside, If You Let Them

​A new Google project called Business Photos, beginning next week, will allow Google Maps to see inside of buildings and provide a 360-degree view for curious customers. The Street View feature will take users inside the walls of potential dinner spots or date bars if an establishments lets a ... More >>

Kate Middleton Independent Headline Just a Nerdy Media Hoax; Adweek Debuts With Typo

​This morning, a bullshit story started circulating not solely because it was nonsense, but because the URL on the Independent website called it out as such, reading "utter PR fiction but people love this shit so fuck it lets just print it," or in full: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/ ... More >>

Did The Huffington Post Win the SEO Game With Today's AOL Acquisition?

​The Huffington Post, which was just bought by AOL for $315 million, is really good at what media mind Jeff Jarvis calls the "black art" of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. That means, when people Google (or more rarely "Yahoo" or "Bing," which are not quite verbs) a term on a search engine ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #2: How Many Members Of New Edition Can You Name?

Left to right: Raphael Saddiq, Luther Vandross, Usher, Gerardo, Masta Killa, and Jimmy Rollins​It's a poorly kept industry secret that rock writers are cheaters, frauds, and goons -- as dependent on Google as a clown is on facepaint. Our ongoing column "Are You Smarter Than a Rock Critic?" pee ... More >>

Pandora, MySpace and More Apps That Send User Info to Advertisers

​A giant investigation by the Wall Street Journal this weekend shows that many of the applications people load their iPhones and Androids with are transmitting user data -- as much of it as they can collect -- to advertisers. This includes popular apps like TextPlus 4, Pandora and Grindr. Out ... More >>

The 'Voice' is 55 Today

​55 years ago today, the first issue of a newspaper put out by editor Daniel Wolf and publisher Edwin Fancher (and paid for by their buddy Norman Mailer) made its debut in the Village. More than half a century later, Wolf and Fancher and Mailer's little experiment not only is still alive, it ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: October 12 through 19, 2010

Dinosaur Bones

Study: Younger Men Older Women = a Match Made in Sexy-Time Heaven

​Interspersed between a lot of Roger Ebert-referencing and The Graduate plot-dissecting, Psychology Today gets to the point and presents an argument in favor of the May-December relationship, with women being the "colder" month in this particular situation. According to researchers from the Un ... More >>

Summer Guide: Pulitzer Winner Jonathan Weiner Follows the Search for Immortality

Long for This World examines the scientific battle against aging

Andrew Breitbart: Admittedly Petty, Shameless Narcissist, Scared to Go After Gawker

​Snarly mainstream media hater, mainstream media pundit Andrew Breitbart - the guy formerly known Matt Drudge's waterboy - has been making quite the ruckus lately! Most recently, he yelled at people who yelled at him at the conservative power powwow CPAC, because - obviously - political think ... More >>

Ruben Larios, Harlem Teen, Shot to Death in His Own Lobby (Update)

​DATE: Friday, Feb. 5 at 11:23 p.m. LOCATION: 381 Edgecombe Ave, Harlem. Police say a 17-year-old named Ruben Larios was found late Friday in the lobby of his apartment building with two gunshot wounds to the chest. He was transported to Harlem Hospital, where he was later declared dead. Upd ... More >>

That Yummy Fur Show Tonight Just Got Moved to the Market Hotel

​More info on the switch here. Not a good sign for 171 Lombardy, the sporadically active (and awesomely Google Street Mapped) Greenpoint venue that was originally set to host. Still--Yummy Fur!

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 ... More >>

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 i ... More >>

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. I ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 n ... More >>

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 ... More >>

MTA Unveils Images from Unaffordable Second Ave. Subway

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

Brooklyn Book Fest: from Joan Didion to Gossip Girl

Why It's Hell to Be a Bottom

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

Adventures in Google's Contextual Advertising

Who Are I?

Theatre Askew plays the same-name game

LCD Soundsystem Weekend: After-Party Info For Saturday

Folded Clothing as Art, Walls

Obsessive Guide to Saturday Night Live Needs You

Google: The New Port Authority

A juggernaut gets ready to inject a big glob of silicon into New York City

Publishers vs. the Censorbot

As Google becomes more crucial to the revenues of online news sites, its practice of withholding ads from edgy stories threatens Web journalism.

All Hail

With its new spreadsheet application, Google continues on its path toward world domination

Blue Chipping

In 23 million years, Google will fall to the rebellion. And no, we don't mean 'Ask Jeeves'

Life From Above

The freakiest new info-fetish: plumb the weirdness that is peer-to-peer satellite surveillance

We Are the Borg

Questing for mind domination and an answer to where the fuck your keys are, G----e maps the world

Books

Books

Trojan XL

How to Get the Malicious Delude Program Out of Your Computer

Search Me

Google's New Bells and Whistles—Worth Using?

Crush

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

Google, E-tailer Promise Fix