Month: September 2014
Tottenville High School in Staten Island started their school year by enforcing a new, strict dress code. The decision to implement what the school calls their “Dress For Success” policy was made “at the discretion of the principal,” AP reports. Tottenville’s district superintendent Aimee Horowitz said that revealing clothes are not allowed because they they “[interfere] […]
Meaningless words like “uh” and “um” say more about their speakers than you might think, according to forensic linguist Jack Grieve. Grieve used data from Twitter to map the frequency of “uh”s and “um”s throughout the country. The winners are clear in some areas, but muddled in others: Grieve said the use of “um” looks to follow the […]
An NBC news special from the dawn of the ’80s documented an exciting new trend — TVs that could display data like the weather, sports scores, news or even early video games. Data services like Ceefax and Viewtex, who provided this info, weren’t connected to the internet, but their services looked towards the future of technology […]
The second series of Sara Ludy, Sylvain Sailly and Nicolas Sassoon’s collective project “Wallpapers” has launched today. The individual, artist-created digital patterns display full-screen on their own URLs. They are meant to be viewed online and as gigantic projections at international exhibitions and events: Wallpapers offline takes form as site-specific installations comprised of large-scale video-projections. These site-specific installations employ wallpapers from the […]
As of 12AM last night, there was 1,063,916 posts on Instagram with the hashtag “Illuminati.” Here are some of those images. […]
If you were one of the victims of the Apple x U2 promotion which deliberately infected your iTunes with a “gift” — the band’s new album Songs Of Innocence — there’s something you can do. It’s a pain in the ass: Because U2’s album was distributed via Apple’s iCloud, the album is not stored locally on your iPhone or iPad. If there […]
A single facility in Kips Bay run by New York’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) has reported 1,600 children disappearances over the course of 13 months reports DNAinfo. They may have been trying to escape what has been described as a “cramped and chaotic environment plagued by bullying and theft” at the 55-bed Nicholas Scoppetta Children’s Center. Many of […]
Another chapter unfolded Sunday afternoon in the long saga that is the underground, not-so-on-the-low service of $1 vans in this city when a woman leaped from one of the vans after cops targeted the driver. The unidentified woman jumped from a red Ford Econoline — with Jamaican flags tied to the front bumper and a […]
More Times Square costumed characters were arrested this weekend, after reportedly getting into a fight with a 22-year-old man from Queens. Thomas Rorke and two men dressed as Spider-Man and Batman were all arrested for assault. Other mascots blamed Rorke for the fight. “He was intoxicated and messing with Batman and they got into it,” […]
Tenants of Harlem’s Riverton Houses, which include state assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, are suing the property’s owners for $10 million over illegal rent hikes. The lawsuit alleges that CWCapital Asset Management and Compass Rock Real Estate have been overcharging residents as part of their plan to force them out of their rent regulated homes and secure more profitable renters: “It’s all […]
