We were just down at the Soho Apple store to catch the last spasms before the igasm at 6pm.
Not really a pretty sight. Kind of like the Astrodome post Katrina: people living in boxes, religious fanatics preaching to bloggers, the sick, the infirm, the sunburnt, the charities videotaping the whole unholy ark.
The best part was the people coming…
Scientific American has an article this month on University of Arizona professor Alan Weisman’s book The World Without Us, imagining what would happen to the Earth if humans suddenly vanished.
The accompanying timeline, “The Fall of New York,†illustrates that it wouldn’t take the Earth as long as you might think to erase the vestiges of human splendor in Manhattan.…
The guy who tried to grab Newsweek’s Steven Levy’s iPhone this morning on Fox News is the first iDay casualty, as far as we know. Looks like the NYPD got him when he returned to the 5th Apple Store to get back in line. The saddest thing is that he looks like a Park Slope dad who has a wife with a…
Word round the campfire is 580 iPhones per Apple store. At 2 phones possible per person that means you want to be well inside the 200th person to be safe.
LVHRD just sent a man to the Soho Apple store to stake his claim. More as it develops.
You totally should have gone to the beach. It’s not going to rain.
But, you didn’t, so here’s something for you to pass the time until the weekend.
This week’s excerpt from LVHRD MGZN 02 is a review of the music of Mia Riddle and her Band and the artwork of Jen Dunlap: Sound and Vision.
Mia is known for her gutsy…
President Bush said in a speech yesterday at the US Naval War Academy that Israel is the model for victory in Iraq. (via talking points)
“In places like Israel, terrorists have taken innocent human life for years in suicide attacks,” Bush said. “The difference is that Israel is a functioning democracy and it’s not prevented from carrying out its responsibilities. And…
Gridskipper has a map of the iPhone lines around the country, complete with handguides to survival and photos of the folks who are first in line. A baby takes the prize in Palo Alto.
Playboy calls iPhone fever a type of VD.
An iPhone caught in the wild leaves people breathless.
That reminds us. We used to have a little drawing…
This is a humanitarian post. Steve Jobs announced today at Apple’s town hall meeting that every employee, part and full-time, will get an iPhone. That’s over $12 million retail.
Pretty cool. And pretty cool for AT&T. You know not nearly all of those 17,787 employess are AT&T subscribers. Switch or be denied! (via engadget)
Let’s go to Chile to find out! Because the answer, apparently, to all things, is in the desert.
“The Expanding Universe–The Big Bang†is a video that journeys to the beginning of time itself to find out how our universe will end.
Here’s a sample: “Before the creation of the universe there was no time.â€
It’s an insubstantial video. About…
Article in NY Magazine on the way cocaine has jumpstarted many a rap career. Mentions include TI, Young Jeezy, Clipse, and Ghostface.
Pusha T and Malice, the twins who make up Clipse, are 3rd generation crack dealers from Virginia. Grandma sold rock. Their new album, Hell Hath No Fury, is amazing: “I’m in touch with the keys, move over Alicia,†and…
This polaroid project by Darri Lorenzen is an example of that practical intelligence we appreciate most. Each time someone bends down to look at the polaroids a man takes a picture of them and sticks it on the wall. (via vvork)
We used to know a guy who did things like this at the airport in Arizona. He and his friends…
Since it’s god-hot outside we have a list of three pool parties you might want to visit.
Thursday, June 28: Night Swimming at the pool on the Holiday Inn Midtown rooftop. Open beer and wine bar from 7 to 9pm, finger food, Manhattan sunset, $5.
Sunday, July 1st: McCarren Pool Park parties. So the pool’s dry, but there is a huge…
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