Month: January 2014
Now that Dogecoin is dead, you’ll need another cyrptocurrency based on a pop cultural meme in which to invest all your hard-earned money. Enter Coinye, a totally-not-a-joke digital currency based on Yeezus himself. In an interview with Noisey, Coinye’s creators say they’re interested in reaching users who wouldn’t otherwise be interested in this sort of […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. Vampire Weekend’s “Step,” one of the best songs of 2013, just got a pretty great rap remix featuring Danny Brown, Heems, and Despot. On the heels of that track, […]
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Scorsese ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ superb muah true 2 brand muah. Started from the bottom now there’re Leo & Jonah stealing all the money because Wall Street. (Stealing is bad) Salesmanship. Riches. Intrigue. Vice. (Vice is bad) “Pharmacy on wings” !!!! (Drugs are very bad) Like fucking & stealing & drugs & brokerbros all sticking their […]
One month of its instatement, the NYPD’s blackout on local crime news is still in effect. In December, the department stopped allowing precincts to provide information about crime to reporters, instead funneling all requests through the office of the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information, effectively cutting off information about local crime. Brooklyn Daily and Gothamist dug into the […]
Good news for the man born William Leonard Roberts II: Rick Ross the corrections-officer-turned-rapper gets to keep his name, despite legal action from Rick Ross the cocaine kingpin. And appeals court dismissed the lawsuit the convicted drug dealer filed in 2010, which alleged the rapper appropriated his image and likeness, arguing for Rick Ross’s First Amendment […]
“There’s nothing that can’t be bought for the right price,” boasts Chen Guangbiao, announcing his plans to “buy” The New York Times. But The New York Times is not actually for sale (yet?) and is worth $1 billion, while Chen Guangbiao is worth just $740 million. Despite the groups of investors and share-holders Chen Guangbiao is claiming to […]
In the above video, researchers from the University of Tokyo use sound to make small particles hover in mid-air, a scientific magic trick that’s been done before but remains no less wonderful. Researcher Yoichi Ochiai explains on his website: It is known that an ultrasound standing wave is capable of suspending small particles at its sound […]
Tyler, Upper East Side. (Photo: Bitch Cakes/Flickr) […]
