Laughing Squid
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Improv Everywhere Creates Separate Sidewalk Lanes For Tourists and New Yorkers In NYC
For latest Improv Everywhere mission, “The Tourist Lane”, a chalk line was added to a 5th Avenue sidewalk in New York City encouraging the notoriously…
Shira Lazar Interviews @BPTerry of @BPGlobalPR
Shira Lazar recently did a CBS News interview with @BPTerry, a spokesperson for @BPGlobalPR, a Twitter account that makes fun of the BP Deepwater Horizon…
Photos: Internet Week New York 2010
photos by Scott Beale Here are a few photos I’ve shot so far of Internet Week New York 2010. Photo Gallery: Internet Week New York…
D8 Interview With Steve Jobs
All Things Digital has posted the full video of Steve Jobs being interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at last week’s D8 Conference in…
1970s Marvel Super Heroes Blacklight Posters
Nick Derington has posted a wonderful series of Marvel Super Heroes Blacklight Posters produced by Third Eye Inc. in the early 1970s. via Boing Boing
2010 World Cup Warmup: Roberto Carlos’s Impossible Goal
In the run up to the 2010 World Cup, which begins this weekend, I wanted to post my favorite YouTube soccer clip of all time.…
San Francisco Crime Mapped As Elevation
Doug McCune takes a look at what various types of crime in San Francisco would look like if represented on a map as elevation. via…
Apple iPhone 4 and iOS 4 Software Update
At today’s Apple WWDC 2010 keynote, Steve Jobs announced the new redesigned iPhone 4 featuring a 960 x 640 retina display, HD video recording and…
Billboard Liberation Front Improves McDonald’s Ad
The Billboard Liberation Front has ‘improved’ a McDonald’s billboard at the corner of Hyde and California in San Francisco. The group has issued a press…
Avatar Days, World of Warcraft Avatars In The Real World
“Avatar Days” by Gavin Kelly (Piranhabar) takes a look at World of Warcraft avatars in the real world.