Month: November 2014
While we might laugh at half-assed “digital drugs” here in America, in the land of medieval punishment known as Saudi Arabia, they take them very seriously. According to Arab News, Abdullah Al-Sharif, Secretary General of the National Commission for Drug Control in Saudi Arabia released a statement about its mission to “curb the spread of this scourge”: […]
You’ve gotta hand it to former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, he knows his short-comings and he’s determined to beat you to the joke. At some point after the .nyc name became a thing that exists, the billionaire mogul began buying up as many useful — as well as embarrassing –domains related to his name as he could. According […]
The Catholic Church is on the decline. Not only has church attendance among Catholics been steadily dropping, but priests are retiring faster than they’re being ordained. Meanwhile, the Church’s expenses are only increasing. On Sunday, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York’s Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan dropped another bomb: 112 parishes will merge into 55, […]
A gunman remains at large after striking a bus in Queens on Monday night. The New York Daily News reports that he was aiming at a 21-year-old man, who subsequently suffered an ankle wound. None of the 35 passengers on board the Q22 bus were injured, however. Reports vary, with police saying there was only […]
For two hours on Monday afternoon, the city’s emergency response system was down. Dispatchers had to go straight analog by writing down calls and radio-ing them in from 2:15 – 4:05 PM, according to the Daily News. Perhaps the most frightening part is that when the computerized system is down, dispatchers have no way of […]
Na’ama, Chinatown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Brazilian street artist Kobra recreates an iconic image of Basquiat and Warhol in Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Last week, Pope Francis shocked the world when he said that the theories of evolution and the Big Bang don’t contradict the teachings of the Catholic Church and that God doesn’t use a “magic wand.” But was his statement really that profound? According to a newly published paper, the Earth’s oceans are a lot older […]
Just as Hewlett-Packard has announced their plans to bring 3D printing into everyone’s home, one company is making a printer that will fit in your hand and cost less than an XBOX. The iBox Nano uses UV LEDs to make resin prints instead of the more costly plastics that many large printers use. The printers that use plastic are […]
Another day, another parody that illustrates how hard it is out there for our favorite homegirl, who walked around New York City for 10 hours and endured more than a hundred catcalls. Funny or Die recently parodied the video to illustrate just how absurd it would be for a white guy to get harassed on […]
