10 days ago
philgyford : Last Call, Bohemia: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com - Christopher Hitchens on gentrification, New York's West Village, London's Soho, etc. (via Kottke, yes I'm catching up on a lot of Kottke)
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1 month ago
Rod Begbie : Boston Red Sox - Balance ball - Bizarre event at today's Sox/Yankees game. Johnny Damon caught a hit before colliding with the wall and losing the ball... which balanced atop the wall for a good second or two. The photos are worth it for the gobsmacked Sox fan in the background. #
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philgyford : Matthew Johnston's slideshow on Flickr - Liberty City vs New York City - Photos comparing bits of New York with their 'Grand Theft Auto 4' counterparts. Amazing and beautiful. Sometimes it's only the quality of the photos that sets them apart. (via Blackbeltjones)
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5 month ago
nelson : Eliot Spitzer's hos - New York governor, former Attorney General is busted
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7 month ago
nelson : Tiger on the Loose: Can It Happen Here? - New York Times with the local angle!
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8 month ago
Greg Storey : Facts and photos from the backlot of Watchmen. - More please.
philgyford : The Backlot (Watchmen) - I was trying not to get my hopes up about the movie, but then I saw this and I'm getting very, very excited. Hopefully this won't all end in tears.
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9 month ago
Rod Begbie : Spitzer's Christmas Tax Surprise - November 14, 2007 - The New York Sun - Cunning -- Amazon.com has been told it must start collecting sales tax from New York residents, because it has "salespeople" in NY. Those salespeople? New Yorkers with Amazon affiliate links on their website. Wonder if this will hold... [via] #
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9 month ago
nelson : Found her! - Guy makes a good web page about "NY girl of my dreams", friend recognizes her and puts them in touch
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deusx : No Shirts at Improv Everywhere - "For our latest mission, 111 men of all shapes and sizes shopped shirtless in the Abercrombie and Fitch store on 5th Avenue here in New York."
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11 month ago
philgyford : Business lessons from the donut and coffee guy (kottke.org) - A post from 2003 about a guy on a stand who lets customers make their own change.
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philgyford : A 15,000 year tour of Manhattan - Great illustrations of what New York might look like at various points after human life disappears. (via Boing Boing)
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philgyford : The Profit Calculator -- New York Magazine - Examples of where different companies' profits come from. (via Kottke)
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16 month ago
plasticbag : Awesome design work on the new Manhattan transport maps... - A significant improvement in an interesting balance between the London Underground maps and a street map. Very nice.
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17 month ago
philgyford : Goodbye to All That by Joan Didion - I read this essay in 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and loved it (and others). About moving to New York, but some of it reminded me of when I moved to London and how my relationship to the place has changed.
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17 month ago
gleuschk : NEW YORK TITLE TRANSFERS - DMV Titling & Registration Information Online - DMV.ORG - I own my car, yay!
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18 month ago
deusx : Ironic Sans: I see the Death Star - "Whenever I walk through the Union Square subway station, I have to navigate through all these vertical I-Beams that are all over the place."
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19 month ago
plasticbag : New York is going to make it so that its 911 and 311 emergency and irritation lines can accept images and video - I love this idea, if they can effectively hook it together so that images and phone calls are effectively matched together. The idea of taking a picture of a criminal and sending it with your call, or of the wound of a car crash victim. Very smart...
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19 month ago
wearehugh : Queasy Rider, New York Times, September 24, 2006
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19 month ago
jkottke : NYC is a dirty place - Power Washing 188 Suffolk St., a photo depicting how dirty NYC is. (via eliot) [via]
philgyford : Trevorlittle.com - nyc photos » Power Washing 188 Suffolk St. - Wow. Shows how dirty some New York buildings have become over the years. The difference is incredible. (via Kottke)
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philgyford : Indie-Film Star 'Suicide' Stunner By Philip Messing, Mark Bulliet and Dan Mangan - New York Post Online Edition: Seven - Hell. Adrienne Shelly, who starred in Hal Hartley's 'The Unbelievable Truth' and 'Trust' (two of my favourite films) has "apparently" committed suicide. I was always surprised she wasn't in more films.
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21 month ago
plasticbag : According to the MPAA, New York is the city in the world most responsible for in-screen recordings of movies - The most interesting thing about this is that it isn't interesting in the slightest. I can't imagine for a moment why the MPAA should be interested in where piracy occurs given that they can't possibly hope to shut down all recordings of movies...
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gleuschk : The New York Times > New York Region > Interactive Feature > Sequence of Events - amazing visualization of the small plane crash in Manhattan on Wed.
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gleuschk : The history of Coney Island, from its first discovery in 4, 11, 44, down to last night, in rhyme. - sometimes there's just nothing you can add
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gleuschk : Cornell Library New York State Historical Literature - not nearly enough about the Onondaga salt industry, but excellent even so
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