Month: September 2013
And the winner of a server that once held some Wikileaks’ Iraq War information, sold at auction on eBay this week, is a 17-year-old who used daddy’s account without his permission. The final bid? $33,000. Naturally, dad–an industrial worker in Portugal–wasn’t happy with the purchase, and was able to retract his deal. “My son is 17 […]
Apparently, NYPD cops needed to be reminded that there’s a difference between Native Americans and South Asians, as a recent memo from the department clarified that people from India are Asian-American. The mixups happen when cops are filing police reports involving people of Indian descent and accidentally check the box marked “American Indian.” “Like any […]
Cops busted the Bronx’s hardest-partying day care this week, turning up 1,000 oxycodone pills, tens of thousands of dollars in cash, guns, and at least a kilo of cocaine at Parkchester’s Fun World Childcare. Three hundred grams of that coke was stuffed into what looked like a kid’s lunchbox. Gregorio Hanley and Johanna Vasquez, the married, […]
Scientists at the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health have put together an estimate of the total number of mammal viruses in the world. That number currently stands at 320,000. There are the global seed banks (currently 6 million varieties stored in 1,300 banks), the human genome, and now, viruses have begun to enter the big data […]
Latka, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
After a special screening of Informant at the Lincoln Center, anarchist activist and turned Conservative media lapdog Brandon Darby Skypes with John McKay — the man he put informed on to the FBI and put in prison. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Today, a popular Russian television station EvroKino was issued an official warning from Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media for “propagating same-sex relations” by showing a 2007 French musical Les Chansons d’Amour (Love Songs) directed by Christophe Honoré. It’s about three hot French people in a hot three-way relationship. Then, there’s another […]
Generating Utopia, by German developer Stefan Wagner, takes Foursquare location data as input, then maps your most-visited (or most-broadcasted, to be precise) locations onto the topography of an area. It’s a bit like these topographical maps of NYC’s wealth, but way prettier and with money swapped out for total oversharing. Wagner had this to say about […]
Open any image file as a word document and you’ll notice a ton of text data that may seem like nonsense. That’s the information that makes up a .jpeg image file. Adding or modifying this information in any way corrupts the image in a visibly recognizable way. Expanding upon this concept, Georg Fischer developed a simple website interface […]
Who cares what you’re wearing. You’re about to fight somebody. What are you taking off? Presuming the people sashaying outside Lincoln Center would actually punch out the line-stepper who stole their precious Rachel Zoe fashion show seat, ANIMAL enlisted fashion expert Courtney Kornegay ask, “If you were in a brawl, what’s coming off first?” (Video: Aymann […]
