Although the MTA has been planning on outfitting city buses with surveillance cameras for a while now, the cash strapped agency is using the recent, highly publicized beating of one of its drivers, to aggressively pursue that goal. This week, transit officials announced they’ll be installing the expensive devices in hundreds of buses to keep employees safer, which of course is bullshit. Read more »
Wildlife photographer David Slater set up his tripod in an Indonesian national park and walked away, returning to find monkeys in the middle of a photo-session with his gear. You may have heard about it. TechDirt was one of the many of sites to report on this quirky item and started a debate on whether anyone can sell, license or assign copyright ownership of photograph allegedly shot by a monkey. Their position? Not legally, no. That’s when Caters Agency — currently licensing those photos — slapped TechDirt with an overzealous takedown notice. Read more »
Iranian drug mule Safi Zadeh Hossein was apprehended in Bangkok’s International Airport when he arrived from Syria with two ugly and suspicious handicraft artworks. The framed cameo and a giant, yellow, vaginal rose were creatively pressed and molded from 33.6 pounds crystal methamphetamine worth $1.6 million. Thai officials said this was the first time they’ve encountered the method… and the last?
Once again, New Yorkers get Manhattanhenge fever at the bi-annual full alignment of the setting sun and our metropolitan street grid. (Photo: Juan Monroy/Flickr)
“[I]t would not make that big a difference,” said Mayor Bloomberg at a press conference yesterday in response to a question about banning cars in Central Park. Except if you’re a cyclist, pedestrian, faggy rollerblader or parent with a stroller, competing with vehicular traffic as it zooms by, tires screeching, while hoping not to veer six inches out of the unprotected lane non-drivers are squashed into.
Here’s a smutty supercut from FilmDrunk, featuring classic/cult dirty talk mashed into one extensive NSFW series of variously explicit whispers, shouts and detailed instructions. A warning to selectively filthy little whores… Read more »
Although this Greenepeace ‘Detox’ commercial has some sort of message about how Nike and Adidas are polluting the environment or something, I was too busy looking at all the cool sneakers to notice it.
Aerial artist Seanna Sharpe and her less thrilling sidekick, Thomas “Savage” Skinner, were both charged with “criminal trespass and reckless endangerment,” for their high climbing hijinx Monday evening.
You might have heard that Apple called the Secret Service hounds on F.A.T. artist Kyle McDonald for art-hacking their store computers to take and “exhibit” photos of browsers. He’s currently not speaking to the media on the advice of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Meanwhile, F.A.T.’s Randy Sarafan has developed a simple but drastic solution for what to do when the Feds try to confiscate your sensitive equipment. It’s a sticker that tells you where to drill a hole in your hard drive. For instructions, proceed here.
This map of the United States was posted on Funny or Die with the following description: “New Yorkers have no sense of geography, which is fair, considering the world revolves around their city. As a New Yorker myself, I attempted to draw the map of the United States. As far as I know, it’s 100% accurate.” Seems about right.
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