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Why Queens Rules
This incredible walkway through the treetops is the Rhizotron, and it's Kew Gardens, Queens. Seriously! It's five minutes from me and I never even knew about it. More shots after the jump. Update: How could this be five minutes from me without my knowing it? Coz it's in Kew Gardens, London. To be fair, Forest Park in Kew Gardens, NY, is fairly huge, and should totally have one of these. And ponies. More »
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Tornadoes Rip Through Kansas
Tornadoes devastated Kansas for the second day in a row yesterday. Here is some video of the event. Now be grateful you live somewhere nice and sunny with access to a beach. That is, if you do live in a such place. I do. But I'm locked in my apartment! More »
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Shark Surfer
You see, they're not all bad. Once we all learn to be friends with our aquatic cousins we can harvest their colossal strength for the greater good of humanity. More »
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Man Vs. Beast: The Greatest Battles of All Time
Humanity's age-old quest to subdue nature is chronicled nowhere so epically as in cheesy Hollywood movies. And today Entertainment Weekly went ahead and chronicled that. A selection of classic screenshots follows. More »
From an AP article that made a a fleeting but glorious appearance on the NYT front page yesterday (Man Wrestles, Subdues, Deer at Md. Home) about how Martin "Pete" Castle wrestled and subdued a deer that ran through the front window of his home: "'My couch is ruined,' says Castle's wife, Robin. She had to clean blood off her computer, printer and coffee table."
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'Times' Replacing Employees With Trees
The New York Times will make all its employees feel better by installing $110,000 worth of trees in the lobby. Seriously! They announced today that they're building an "open-air birch and moss garden" on the ground floor of their fancy new building. An open-air birch and moss garden. So maybe this season's $15 million in staff cuts ("certainly not the largest that we've had," says the Times) were just to pay for the 50-foot trees and several tons of moss (moss!!) that they're shipping in from Jersey this weekend. Some intrepid citizen journalists should go document the sure-to-be-astounding installation (cranes hoisting trees over a 70-foot glass wall in the middle of midtown!). Maybe all the people laid off from their printing plants should go into the tree nursery business? Or maybe they should talk to the Sulzbergers about building them the world's largest wooden aero-plane!The 'Times' Can't See the Forest for the Trees [NYM]
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What Really Happened in Amagansett This Weekend
What follows is like aversion therapy for those who might want to go to the Hamptons. On Saturday night in Amagansett, as Jessica Coen reported today at New York mag, the sundry foodie blogging glitterati gathered for a burger cook-off. Coen was there to support her man Lockhart Steele, our (and her!) former boss at this very website. She looks really happy. That "typical summer share house" was Eater honcho Ben Leventhal's, and it is called "Southfork." Julia Allison was there too! She was cozying up with College Humor's Jakob Lodwick. Later they would have a huge knock-down drag-out fight but then go on to make up. Former Glamour blogger and Gawker enemy Alyssa Shelasky was munching on Doritos poolside, as was weirdly attractive photographer Jessica Craig-Martin. Hampton's Style editor Deb Schoeneman was there, as was College Humor millionaire and (coincidence!) Hampton's Style Contributing Editor Ricky Van Veen. His pictures can be found here; the one above is the only one of Julia Allison topless, just to save you time searching. More »
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Neal Pollack Will Not Spawn Again
It's so cool that dudes can become parents and still have time left in their busy days to comment on blog posts, right? From the flying typing fingers of Neal Pollack, everyone's favorite Alternadad, comes an overshare that left us feeling this weird, poignant combination of relief and annoyance: Neal and his wife, he claims, are "done" with begetting. More »
man vs. nature
Not much more to say this one, although we do appreciate the Today Show host's stoic demeanor. Also, Al Roker could have been nicer about it. Anyway, enjoy!
Matt Lauer Gets A Big Ol' Bug Stuck To His Face
Not much more to say this one, although we do appreciate the Today Show host's stoic demeanor. Also, Al Roker could have been nicer about it. Anyway, enjoy!
