So I just read this story at BBC Online:
I live in Manhattan, and I can tell you that 50m high waves hitting this city would be a very bad thing. NYC would be…hmmm…what’s the word…oh yeah…NYC would be fucked.
Oh, and 9 hours of warning? Ha – that might be enough to get [...]

If anyone out there cares, here’s a site that I’m firmly in support of: http://www.boycott-riaa.com/.
This whole thing is a complicated issue, I agree, with validity on both sides, but in the end I just think the RIAA is desperately trying to maintain their castle while it’s under siege from all sides by Napster and [...]

Last night I was over by Chelsea Piers (this giant sports complex on the Hudson), and two guys were walking by, trying to figure out what to do with their evening.
guy 1: …Naw, man…I’d rather go to the party.
guy 2: Yo, man, but if we hang with those bitches, it’s guaranteed ass!
guy 1: Yeah, [...]

It seems Microsoft has resorted to pathetic tactics to try to win favor with the Attorneys General in the states where they are contesting their monopoly status, as this Newsfactor story details.
It’s amazing to me that a company whose products have touched so many people could be as universally reviled as they are. About [...]

Last night I attended a friend’s birthday gathering. He billed it as “a celebration of the anniversary of my exile from the womb”.
It was hot as hell, as summers here tend to be, but I was among friends and sharing good conversation.
But it reminded me of another night when I was hanging with him [...]

So today they were filming yet another cop drama right outside my apartment building. Now, when you live in Manhattan, you get used to movie sets, but this experience today was particularly annoying.
Basically, movie crews are like roaches here, both in that they are annoying, and in that they are everywhere. and they love [...]