Thursday, October 13, 2005
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Some of NYC’s elite art and business executives were receiving emails about the terror threat at least three days before Bloomberg held a press conference to warn of the impending attack. The NYPD has confirmed that at least two e-mails were sent from people claiming to have close connections with people high up in the Department of Homeland Security and warning them not to take the subway for the next two weeks.
Ha ha, rich people were fooled by a fake terror threat three days before the rest of us.
Of course the people who received the email first are the last people you would ever find down in the subway anyway. When was the last time you saw an executive in a three piece suit down in the subway?
The irony of course is that these warnings were coming from people close to high ups at DHS. And if we all remember, the entire time Bloomberg was beefing up security, and warning people about the threat, the DHS was downplaying the threat saying it wasn’t there in the first place. So why were they warning their family and friends? Animals.
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Thursday, October 13, 2005
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Five days of steady rain. Enough is enough.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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Spielberg is claiming he’s invented a new technology that will revolutionize the movie industry.
"A good movie will bring you inside of itself just
by the sheer brilliance of the director/writer/production staff," he says. "But in the
future, you will physically be inside the experience, which will surround you
top, bottom, on all sides. … I’ve invented it, but because patent is pending,
I can’t discuss it right now."
Virtual reality cinema? Neuron cinematic transmitters? Figuring out a way to cast Sandra Bullock in every part in every movie? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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In an attempt to make your iPod obsolete within a week of purchasing it Apple announced a new iPod, soon to be released, that plays video.
An update of the iPod photo the new iPod has a 2 1/2 inch color screen and comes in 30 and 60 GB models. Apple has struck a deal with ABC to sell episodes of ‘Desperate Housewives’ and ‘Lost’.
Wait a second, wait a second. Are you freaking telling me BlogNYC is going to be able to watch episodes of ‘Lost’ on the subway instead of just watching on our DVR whenever we want? Will they be able to stop the rush of people stampeding to watch Desperate Housewives on a 2 1/2 inch screen?
I suppose we could possibly see a market for using iPod video but we highly doubt it’s going to be on selling day old episodes of TV shows. Are people really so busy that they don’t have the time to TiVo a show and watch it later?
There have been over 28 million iPods sold since Apple introduced them in 2001, with sales tripling last year.
Check out the photos at the Flickr photoset.
And apparently now you can also see it on Apple’s website, although when I got these pictures, it wasn’t up yet, I was just slow in posting them.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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Harriet + Georgie.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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You see, we really want to help those poor, starving people in Africa, we just have to figure out a way to make the most money from it. We don’t really care if millions die, because if millions can’t be made by American corporations, then let them starve.
Congress is cockblocking a bill that would allow the federal government to buy food in Africa to help Africans facing starvation. The problem? It wouldn’t allow American companies to profit, so that’s not an alternative. Plus, it would make too much sense, it would help get the food to the people who are starving, it would help the African farmers and it would get the food to the people who need it in weeks instead of months. Sounds like a drag to me.
Why doesn’t Congress pass this bill? Big business. Agribusiness, the shipping industry and get this, charitable organizations. Charitable fucking organizations don’t want to get the food to the people they’re trying to help quicker, because then they wouldn’t be able to pay themselves. Assholes.
And it’s not like the wealth is being spread around:
Just four companies and their subsidiaries, led by Archer Daniels
Midland and Cargill, sold more than half the $700 million in food
commodities provided through the United States Agency for International
Development’s food aid program in 2004, government records show. Just
five shipping companies received over half the more than $300 million
spent to ship that food, records show.
Who would Jesus let starve so a company could make a few hundred million? Ask yourself that the next time you vote, or go to work or donate your money. Ask yourself whether Jesus would be subservient to a system that started wars, allowed people to starve, stole from the working class and amassed wealth on a scale never before seen. Ask yourself if your ambivalence and inaction absolves you of responsibility.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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We can’t think of a worse idea than to try and subway surf. "Subway surfing" is when someone climbs on top of the subway car and tries to ride it. Yesterday a 23 year old was critically injured after falling off a car he was "surfing". The incident happened at three in the morning, and since we can’t imagine this being the choice of someone sober, it’s possible alchohol was involved.
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