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Deceptive Twitter User Apologizes, Resigns From Campaign
Shashank Tripathi , aka @comfortablysmug, spread misinformation during the storm. Via: @ComfortablySmug
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Councilman Pushes For Charges Against Twitter User Who Spread Falsehoods
“I hope the fact that I'm asking for criminal charges to be seriously considered will make him much less comfortable and much less smug,” says Vallone New York City Councilman Peter Vallone told...
View ArticleMore Reflection On Apple's Executive Change
A warning from Matt Drance, a former Apple employee: “Apple’s insane growth has pushed the situation over the edge. Too much size and separation inevitably bring politics, chaos, dropped balls, and...
View ArticleThe iPad Mini Is Exactly What You Expect
Like an iPad, but smaller , making it the best designed and best built 7-inch(ish) tablet. The only downside is the non-retina display, which is super noticeable if you've been using super-high-res...
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Another Instacat Sensation
Meet Hope, a Persian cat of Instagram. This is Hope, another Internet prodigy. Just scroll down and enjoy the show. View Entire List ›
View ArticleThis Video Of A Con Ed Substation Exploding Looks Like A Bomb In The Distance
The bright flash, the quiet boom, the people screaming. You might've seen it before , but not like this. ( via ) Source: youtube.com
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Inside The Major League Baseball Tech Startup That Could Change Television
Major League Baseball Advanced Media was a tiny startup inside of a huge organization. Now it's not just on the brink of changing the game, but the rest of television with it. San Francisco Giants...
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Chris Christie Is The Ultimate Hero Of Hurricane Sandy
New Jersey's governor came across as frank, impassioned, and utterly human during the hurricane, like a troubled action movie hero. So obviously, here is a fan fiction interpretation of his tweets....
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Watch The Sun Go Down Over A Lightless Manhattan
A serene time lapse after a chaotic storm. Says YouTube user rapheevanoff: "The day after the storm hammered NYC, lower Manhattan remained without electricity. Most of the usually lit-up downtown...
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Without Subways, Manhattan Would Be A Giant Parking Lot
And the city would need to build 76 Brooklyn Bridges to carry all the new drivers. With New York's subways still shut down but some city residents returning to work, the city faces a new problem: what...
View Article12 Types Of Ghosts Caught On Security Cameras
The Internet's favorite variety of ghost-sighting evidence comes in several forms. Some are more terrifying than others. Boo! Haunted Dust That Makes The News This spooky, motion-sensor-tripping piece...
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Power Is Slowly Creeping Back In Tri-State Area, Utilities Say
New Jersey and New York City are still suffering from the largest number of outages, and it could be another week before power is restored in the worst affected areas. Con Edison's senior vice...
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The Facebookification Of Gmail
Soon, new e-mails will open in a chat-like window, mimicking Facebook's private-message-through-chat interface. One more step in Google's attempt to transform into a social network. Soon, and as early...
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Objects Found In Google Satellite View Become Stunning Mosaics
Jenny Odell captures a truly unique bird's eye view by stitching together images of airplanes, pools and even nuclear cooling towers from Google Satellite View. The effect is both bizarre and...
View ArticleThis Pumpkin Is A Fully Functional Tetris Game
And the stem is the joystick. How it was built: a lot of measuring, soldering, coding and little bit of good old fashioned pumpkin carving. Source: hahabird.com
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Congressional Candidate Disowns Former Campaign Manager, Twitter Troll...
Hurricane Sandy's most malicious tweeter , Shashank Tripathi, slammed by his old boss. “Shocked and disgusted,” says the candidate. Shashank Tripathi, known on Twitter as @comfortablysmug, was outed...
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The 7 Scariest Weather Changes New York Faces This Century
Sandy may be just the beginning — the city could be looking at a 4-feet rise in sea level and a huge increase in flooding. Sea level could rise over 4 feet by the 2080s. A 2009 report [PDF] issued by...
View ArticleThe iPad Mini's Soul
It blows me away every time to see how much of the inside is just battery, battery, battery. LINK: The iPad Mini's Soul It blows me away every time to see how much of the inside is just battery,...
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Inside Tech Companies' Private Bus System
Tech shuttle buses have taken over San Francisco's streets, creating a transportation caste system. I wanted to know what it was like inside. So I got on. The biggest, baddest, and most frequent...
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25 Best Suggestions For Novel Openers
November is National Novel Writing Month (“NaNoWriMo”), a challenge to write a novel in 30 days. Twitter has suggested a few ideas for a first sentence. For the record, I'd read all of these. View...
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