by Nicole Cliffe and Mallory Ortberg
It has been three years and three…
by Becca Hafter
“Hackers can harass users of a smart toilets in Japan by exploiting the power of a free Bluetooth app. The advanced ‘Satis’ automatic toilet can be remotely operated by a free app available on Android smartphones that lets people raise and…
“Groh is the owner of Joe’s Steaks + Soda Shop at 6030 Torresdale Ave., and if that doesn’t ring a bell, here’s the name it used until March 31: Chink’s Steaks, a Wissinoming landmark since 1949. Seem familiar now? I doubt many, if any, of Chink’s customers…
The Post Co. will change to a new, still-undecided name and continue as a publicly traded company http://t.co/8VokdkOp8f
— Michael Roston (@michaelroston) August 5, 2013
“Harlan Coben, the best-selling thriller writer, was 9 years old, another Newark refugee in Livingston, when he met Christie on a Little League field, the future governor a chunky kid in a catcher’s get-up coming toward him, saying his full name…
“The all-American hamburger: It makes you think of herds of cattle, the great plains, family-run farms…” — Hmmm. That is not exactly what springs to my mind when someone mentions hamburger. Anyway, here’s five minutes of “news”…
★★★★ A smooth blue river and an energized toddler hailed the coming day. The sunlight was keen; little…
“I will never watch Jeopardy again after today. The fact that they denied it was the last straw for me. Goodbye Jeopardy.”
“Monkeys living in a Dutch zoo have been behaving strangely over the last week, sitting listlessly with their backs turned to visitors and even refusing food. Something may have spooked them, with theories including a scary T-shirt, a runaway snake or a UFO.”
“Millions of Britons are currently not talking to at least one of their neighbours, a survey has shown.”
So if Nate Silver is Arcade Fire, Paul Krugman would be… Radiohead?
“Everybody always shifts their priorities and business plans every 12 years or so.”
I can’t keep track of where we stand with MGMT these days. Backlash? Post-backlash? Relash? I mean, I liked that “Time To Pretend” song, and “Kids” was fine too. I had other plans when their next record came out, I can’t remember what they were now, so I was absent that day, but it…
“I feel like I’m in Montauk four years ago.” — This New Yorker — visiting the Rockaways from the East Village — says so much about two different scenes, and her participation in both…
