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We All Wish We Attended the Internet Cat Video Festival in Minnesota

If you have scoured the Internet over the past five years or so, there is a 85% chance (yeah, I did the math) that you've come across this video. You are looking at Keyboard Cat - a video that defines the Internet cat phenomenon, with over 27 million views worldwide. And it's just a cat playing a ke ... More >>

Q&A: Jonathan Toubin On His Record Collection, Moving To New York In The '90s, And Wanting To Make Culture

Some DJs are quiet, let-the-music-do-the-talking types, but not Jonathan Toubin. Interviewed for this week's Voice profile, the 4Knots Music Festival Afterparty host was enthusiastic and opinionated, generating a novella's worth of transcript. More highlights from our conversation are below, as Toub ... More >>

Free Will Astrology

Q&A With David Rees, Cartoonist and Pencil-Sharpener Extraordinaire

David Rees is no stranger to paper. As a cartoonist for Rolling Stone and other publications, he won widespread acclaim (and criticism) for his politically charged "Get Your War On" strip, which visualized, in comic form, the intense spectrum emotions felt throughout the Bush years. He is also the s ... More >>

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Mike Daisey

How much should facts matter in theater? A look at the controversy surrounding the performer.

Scientology Counterattack: Commenters of the Week!

There's been so much enturbulation in the underground bunker lately, it's been hell on the cats, who just want to catch up on their sleep. So we installed one of those kitty hi-rises this week and it was an instant hit. The little carnivores are remaining more calm in their tiny carpeted condos whil ... More >>

Protestors Descend on Grand Central Apple Store; Reporters Attack Them

There were more reporters than protestors at a rally today at the new Apple store in Grand Central. A lot more reporters. But it's an important cause, especially for you iPhone-iPad-MacBook-Apple-loving folks, so listen up! SumOfUs and Change.org, two groups speaking out against labor practices i ... More >>

100 & Single: Adele's Focus-Grouped Chart-Topper And The Demise Of The "Deep Cut"

Remember the album cut—the track deep on a disc that fans knew best, that only cool radio stations would play? Like so many cherished things from before the iTunes era, it's essentially extinct. My evidence for this bold and seemingly facile statement isn't the steady, well-chronicled disappe ... More >>

Rightbloggers Rush to Defend Mitt Romney -- The Corporate Raider, Not the Candidate

When last we left our heroes, the 2012 Republican Presidential challengers, they were inevitably folding to Mitt the Man Whose Turn It Is. Then Newt Gingrich -- or, excuse us, a Newt Gingrich Super-PAC to which he is not connected -- decided to go out swinging with a little film that portrayed Romne ... More >>

Today in Steve Jobs Memorials: This Guy's Hair Possibly the Most Impressive Tribute Yet

Facebook​ This was spotted at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store on Friday morning during the hubbub prior to the iPhone 4S's release. That is a real hairstyle! It's possibly cooler than the tribute on Bond Street we wrote about last week.

What's So Special About Apple's Siri?

​Anticipation and hoopla surrounded the release of the iPhone 4S, but when people discovered Apple wasn't debuting the iPhone 5, the launch was dubbed a dud. 5 is one better than 4! Why are you robbing us of 5? On the evening Steve Jobs died, CNN.com's main headline was about how the iPhone 4S ... More >>

TECH SAVVY

Mike Daisey takes a bite out of Apple

100 & Single: How Digital Changed The Charts, From Gwen To GoonRock

Spotify's top tracks (left) and albums on Friday, July 15.​The headline-grabbing music story of the week isn't on the Billboard charts—it's the U.S. debut of Spotify. With the streaming-music service less than 48 hours old here, it's a bit too soon to analyze what songs are getting the m ... More >>

Judy and Joseph Del Galdo, Mother and Son Team, Stole $16 Million, Splurged on iTunes

​Mother and son Judy, 66, and Joseph del Galdo, 46, have been charged with stealing more than $16 million from a textile business where Judy worked for over 20 years, according to the Manhattan DA's office. Judy forged the signature of the company's president on hundreds of checks that were de ... More >>

Live: Jadakiss Takes A Bite Out Of The Apple Store

Jadakiss Apple Store Soho Tuesday, June 14 Better than: Waiting your turn at the Genius Bar. Jadakiss stood in front of a large projection screen, dressed in black tee and jeans; Steve Jobs kitted. He had just "freestyled" the lyrics to "Trading Places," which is to say that he performed his full ... More >>

Jerry Lawson, Inventor of the Video Game Cartridge, Dead at 70

​Remember when video games used to come in cartridges? Everyone born in the '80s or early '90s remembers the satisfying click of putting their favorite game into their NES, Super Nintendo or Nintendo 64. Everyone remembers going to their one rich friend's house and seeing his jumbled crate of ... More >>

Dov Charney Is Not Sweating 'Fraudulent' Sexual Abuse Claims, Bankruptcy: Q&A

​Troubled clothing company American Apparel is all over the news again. This time, though, the situation seems dire. CEO Dov Charney, who we've spoken to in the past, is being sued for an enormous sum of money by five former employees alleging sexual abuse. Stop us if you've heard this one bef ... More >>

Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About the New York Times Paywall, But Were Too Poor to Ask

​Big news in the world of meta media news today! Details of the long-awaited, vaguely teased New York Times paywall have arrived via a press release from the Paper of Record. It's sort of expensive, compared to free! It's also sort of reasonable, if you feel inclined to support the making of good ... More >>

Mark Salter Wrote O, the Obama Novel; The Daily Launching For Real This Time

​O: A Presidential Novel is the fictitious telling of the 2012 presidential campaign from an anonymous insider -- or at least "someone who has been in the room with Barack Obama" -- which has been met with a pretty collective "meh" from the media, both when it comes to its mysterious creator a ... More >>

Is Playboy Coming to the iPad?

​Maybe, sort of! Hugh Hefner took to Twitter on Tuesday to share the good, if incomplete, news: ""Big news! Playboy--both old & new--will be available on iPad beginning in March." According to its founder, the digital editions "will include the whole magazine from the first issue to the latest ... More >>

Who is the Media Person of the Year? (or "This Discussion Panel is On Fire, A Play in One Act.")

​At 12PM today at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute -- less than a block away from the Village Voice offices -- a panel discussion sponsored by I Want Media convened to discuss their 9th Media Person of the Year award. The panel -- featuring the New York Times' David Carr, Mediaite's ... More >>

Angry Birds, The Short Movie (Video)

​When Steve Jobs revealed the iPad to the world, we were told to expect the world to be changed by the way we consume movies, music, write emails, and read things. Instead, what we really got was a better way to play Angry Birds, which is the best thing that happened in 2010. And now, there's ... More >>

News Corp. is Basically Hiring Everyone for The Daily iPad Thinger

​Lock up ye editorial staffers! The Daily is trying to hire them if they haven't already. And if Papa Rupe doesn't come for 'em, Yahoo will. A New York Observer-er peaces out. Finally, the clearing out of some old items, the firing of some long-needed shots, and the media company you're most l ... More >>

New York Times Does Dock Ellis, Reminds Kids That Old People Took LSD First

​Sometimes we are a little bit hard on our favorite newspaper, the New York Times, because it is a little bit for old people, sometimes stodgy or sexless or scared to say words like "shit." It is fun -- and necessary! -- to tease them, we think. But also! It is the best and sometimes someone t ... 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 >>

iPhone 4, Now With More Dropped Calls Than Ever! Steve Jobs: "Not a Big Issue."

​If you have an iPhone -- and especially if you have an iPhone in New York City -- you're familiar with the concept of The Dreaded Dropped Call, because among other reasons, AT&T sucks and your iPhone likely only uses AT&T. Also, because it's supposed to be The JesusPhone, it's just inherently ... More >>

Early, Frenetic Adoption of iPad Leads to Early, Frenetic iPad Theft in Brooklyn

​Apple reports that 2 million iPads have been sold since the device hit the market a mere two months ago. Last Friday, iPads finally rolled out for a bunch of jealous countries including Australia, Britain, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. In July, Austria, Belgiu ... More >>

The Most Exciting Moment of TechCrunch Disrupt Thus Far: Michael Arrington Told to "Fuckoff"

​Do you know what a TechCrunch is? No? Well then: it's a site run by a guy out of San Fransisco for San Fransisco tech geeks, and unless you work for FourSquare or you're a venture capitalist with a few hundred thousand to peel off, don't worry too much about it. All you need to know is that T ... More >>

The Gizmodo iPhone Case: Editor Brian Lam's Off-Record Email to Steve Jobs

​Well, journalists, just remember: Off-record don't mean nothing to a court subpoena. Gizmodo, who had a huge, huge story when they paid for an iPhone prototype that was lost in a bar, is now experiencing that wonderful tidbit of information. Their editor, Brian Lam, shot Steve Jobs' public em ... More >>

Farewell Streaming Music Service Lala

​Lala, the streaming, cloud-based music service familiar to anyone who's googled a song in the last year or two, only to have a free Lala stream come back as the first result, is shutting down, reports Billboard. The service was bought by Apple in the waning months of 2009; after that, it was ... 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 >>

Barack Obama is Golden, Rush Limbaugh is Screwed -- Predictions for the Year of the Tiger!

By Fatimah Surjani Ortega Yes, Tiger, this could be your year​Sunday ushers in the Year of Metal Tiger, which sounds like a golf club. That's actually appropriate, because things look auspicious for Tiger Woods -- as long as he can keep his dick in his pants. Just in time for Chinese New Yea ... More >>

AT&T Seems to Stop iPhone Sales in New York; Apple May Be Planning New Version That Actually Works As Phone

The Consumerist details a conversation with an AT&T customer service rep, who allegedly told a Brooklyn resident that she couldn't buy an iPhone because "New York City is not ready for the iPhone." Which is weird, as in the streets of New York the iPhone is ubiquitous --not especially useful as a ph ... More >>

Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Dark Captain Light Captain's "Jealous Enemies"

Free Will Astrology: September 17 to 23

Cloverfield Is One Giant, Incredibly Entertaining ‘Screw You!’ to Yuppie New York

Cloverfield Is One Giant, Incredibly Entertaining ‘Screw You!’ to Yuppie New York

Lip Service

Shopping with balmy women

The Dance of Chance

Old dog Merce Cunnigham shows off new tricks

Standing in the Shadow of iTunes

Three upstart local online music stores aim for their own niche markets

Sonic Youths

A festival sets out to make musical theater seem hip again

Site Precedent

What Apple Computer Insists are 'Trade Secrets' These Websites are Calling News

Fax of Life

Yes, Virginia, you can send and receive through a desktop. Here's how.

An iPod for Your Eyes

Portable video looks great, and in a couple of years it may be affordable

100 Hottest Hotties

Sex Drive Outpaces Death Drive as the Biz Goes Down the Toilet

Mac Daddy

Is the G5 a Must-Have for Apple Fans?

PCs in a 'Pod

Scents and Sensibility

Smells Are Ready for Their Online Debut—But Is the World Ready for Them?

Left To My Own Devices

Memoirs of a wired student

Up Against The Wall

Hocus Focus rewrites Apple's ad campaign