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Yesterday, after linking to “http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/Voodoo-Blog/The-HP-s-Slate-Device-Runs-The-Complete-Internet-Including-Flash/ba-p/53838”, I asked what the deal was with that crazy server…

Joaquin Baca’s Brooklyn Star was shuttered last month due to a fire that ravaged the Williamsburg restaurant. A notice on the website promised a reopening after “a spell,” but reconstruction is …

Fully draggable, zoomable, Zelda-like map of NYC…this is awesome. But where are the Octoroks? (via waxy)

This chart put together earlier this week by the Brooklyn Speaks coalition pretty much, well, speaks for itself. You can check out the entire presentation here.
Atlantic Yards Then and…

Photo courtesy of MyTwoCensus.com.

So we’ve been meaning to post about these census-taking gigs that pay around $20 an hour, and just today a thoughtful and generous tipster writes in to…

The designation by the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday paves the way for a federal cleanup of decades-old pollution there.

Rafat Ali, writing for Paid Content:

Five of the leading publishers — Time Inc., Hearst, Condé Nast, Wenner Media, and Meredith — have banded together for this “power of print” campaign,…

Me and Eliot Spitzer

Elisabeth Moss, Christina Hendricks and John Slattery on the Mad Men set

Eater NY discovers a cool new blog for the David Chang/Food porn-obsessed: Momofuku for 2. Following in the footsteps of Julie Powell, this Vancouver cook, blogger and huge fan of David…

The tech press loves checklist comparisons. Let’s evaluate the iPhone to see whether it’s a good product:

Sounds like a terrible product. I bet it will fail.

Remember the MacBook Air’s…

Nice complement to ClickToFlash — BashFlash monitors Snow Leopard’s Flash Player process and lets you kill it when it starts using excessive CPU time.