A group of young people yelled “Poland for Poles!” at Rabbi Schudrich, then Schudrich was hit and sprayed with pepper gas.

Check out the target demographic on Bronx Shoes’ European homepage, and then compare it to the US homepage of the same company selling the same thing.

Hmmm….

(and yes, they’re both Bronx/diba/blink, as far as I can tell)

The New York Observer recently had this to say about the “divide” between North and South Brooklyn. To the North, we have Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Greenpoint; to the South, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, and Fort Greene, among others. To the North, hipsters; to the South, babies. Living in Williamsburg, I’m [...]

Our DVD players of the future may seem more like they’re contraptions out of Cold War-era spy novels if Sony has anything to do with it. According to this site, the Blu-Ray Disc Association, led by Sony, has developed a standard for self-destructing DVD players:

This controversial technology would require that disc players maintain permanent connections [...]

Recent reports have stated that at least 81 people have been killed, thousands of prison inmates have rioted, and at least 200 have been taken hostage in an outbreak of gang-related violence in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.

I was going to write a long monologue about this, but instead, I’m just going to [...]

So much is unreasonable about the Gary McKinnon case that it’s hard to know where to start. As a bit of background: McKinnon, a citizen of the UK, is charged with breaking into computer systems serving the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of Defense, and NASA, over the course of several years. [...]

Okay so who hasn’t seen the pretty cool Lazy Sunday video (aka Chronicles of Narnia Rap) produced by those comedy guys Lonely Island? It has essentially taken the net by storm (even professors were telling me about it), and has demonstrated the potential positive effects of the viral effects of the Internet.

Well, NBC just doesn’t [...]

Attention all MySpace music fanatics. Here’s a link to your dream job, except that you’re not exactly going to get paid. Instead, you will have the coveted opportunity of getting college credit for spamming the social networks with your oh-so-objective views. And don’t worry—no chance of losing MySpace cred. You won’t even have to tell [...]