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Area Kid Would Like Spongebob to Please Back the F Off
[Spongebob Squarepants visited Times Square today, delighting some children, enraging others, and probably scaring the pants (square or otherwise) off others still; image via Getty] -
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Not Sure We Liked June, But...
[The terribly literary Madison Avenue Baptist Church makes us ruminate on summer today; image via Rafael Chamorro's Flickr] -
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Hearing Things
[The scene at the Capitol during the first day of judge Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings; image via Getty] -
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Electric Avenue
[Electric cars for the use of world leaders and their entourages at the G8 conferernce are lined up for a "family photo" in L'Aquila, Italy; image via Getty] -
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Though Jackson Is Dead, Ridiculousness Is Alive and Well
[Italian "Vogue" editor Anna Piaggi arrives at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week for the Christian Lacroix show; image via Getty. Incidentally, I also liked this image today, from Piaggi's home country.] -
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Thanks to the Sky
[Finally sun in New York! After a month plus of dreary weather, the sun has returned and stayed put (for now). This image, of a sunbather in Riverside Park yesterday, via Ed Yourdon's Flickr] -
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We Don't Need No Water, Let The Wood Tanks Burn
[July 4th fire last night on the corner of Wythe and North 9th at the Rosenwach Wood Tank Company in the middle of Williamsburg proper. There's no evidence to support hipsters (or hipster-exploiting developers) started it. Photo via everyplace's photostream] More » -
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Mourning Light
[That's light coming from within Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch early this morning, near Los Olivos, CA; image via Getty] -
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The Quarter Mile
[Two visitors stand, looking like something out of a Chris Van Allsburg book, in the new Ledge observation deck, which juts out of the 103rd story of Chicago's Sears Tower. That's 1,353 feet up. Image via Getty] -
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Alfalfa from Haifa
[A handout photo of Israeli President Shimon Peres in Kazakhstan today. This was a handout, so someone in the Israeli Press Office has a sense of humor!] -
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Finding the Sun
[The sun returned to New York this weekend, as you can see in this photo, taken yesterday in Prospect Park; image via jeepeenyc's Flickr] -
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In the Tank
[White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gets dunked during a luau (an Indonesian luau perhaps???) held on the South Lawn yesterday for members of Congress and their families; image via Getty] -
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Baruch Atta Boy!
[A man marches, along with 2,000 other Israelis, in the Jerusalem gay pride parade today; image via AP] -
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One Day of Not Rain
[A lifeguard on one of New York City's beaches, taken earlier this month, when it was remarkably not raining. Via Flickr user H E T's I Hate/Love NYC 09 gallery] -
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In the Sex Forest, We Will All Be Demons
[The DSquared2 fashion show begins during Milan Menswear Fashion Week. The collection is evidently designed for the gay pleasure robot camping enthusiast. Image via Getty] -
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Well Done at the White House
[Barack Obama points tongs at you while cooking for a group of local male students, as a kick-off to Father's Day activities; image via Getty] -
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The Indian Invasion
[A tepee is erected near Glastonbury, England. The tepees are rented out, £800 a pop, for next week's Glastonbury Music Festival, the biggest music festival in all of Europe. Looks like they're having beautiful British weather, same as us; Getty] -
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How to Sell Jeans
[A woman stands in front of the racy new Calvin Klein ad in Soho that's causing a controversy; image via Getty] -
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Dear Dirty Dubliner
[That's James Joyce there on the right, next to Sylvia Beach, undated. Today is Bloomsday in Dublin, when the writer's works are celebrated and there's a pub crawl; image via Getty] -
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The Long Way Up
[A demonstrator climbs the Freedom Tower in Tehran, Iran today, as protesters continued to demonstrate against contested election results. Image via AP] -
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Crossing Prayers
[Palestinian men performing Muslim early morning prayers after crossing from the West Bank town of Qalqilya to work in Israel this morning at an Army Checkpoint. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a speech today calling for a demilitarized Palestinian state. Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images.] -
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The Stones On These Guys...
[A supporter of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi hurls a stone at riot policemen during riots in Tehran today. Photo credit: Oliver Laban-Mattei/AFP/Getty Images. Read more coverage on today's Iranian elections here.] -
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Pool Manchu
[Olympic god Michael Phelps sports an unfortunate mustache at a swim meet in California; image via Getty] -
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"What a Beautiful Church!"
[Military brides gather in Times Square to get married in an event cosponsored by the USO. Five couples were married on the island in the middle of the square, like for realsies; image via Getty] -
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And Yet, Good Things Still Happen
[Today's been a day for shitty news, so we went back to yesterday to find something cute: baby panthers Larisa and Sipura in a basket at a zoo in Germany; image via Getty] -
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Basel's Jindal
[A spectator looks at a work by Richard Phillips called "The New Actuality," which features a portrait of funny-talkin' Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and a frightening hell demon, at the Art Basel art fair in Switzerland; image via Getty] -
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New Park Already Ruined By Weddings
[A couple gets married (or pretends to get married? maybe they're models?) in the new High Line Park on the West Side, which just opened today; image via i'mjustsayin's Flickr] -
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All Y'All Other Beaches Better Know
[A fan of Barack Obama leaves a message near the shore in Colleville-sur-Mer while the 65th anniversary of D-Day is being commemorated; via Mandal Ngan/AFP/Getty Images] -
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"I'd Take You Back to the House But, Well, I Don't Live There Anymore."
[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves the State Department with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan today; image via Getty] -
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The Holed World In His Hands
[A Harvard student looks deflated at his graduation ceremony, held today in Cambridge; image via Getty] -
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Death in Venice
[A portion of "Fucking Hell", Jake and Dinos Chapman's art piece of Nazi-themed (sorta) miniatures in a hellish, apocalyptic landscape. It's showing in Venice as part of the opening for a new contemporary arts center; image via Getty] -
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A View from the Bridge
[A view of New York from, we're guessing, the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. By photographer Sergei Yahchybekov, via Flickr] -
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Don't Forget Your Umbrella
All the weather people in New York are predicting showers today, so we felt this was an appropriate Pic of the Night. It was taken by Gawker Artist Markus Hartel. -
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Pointing In Two Directions
[A model struts the catwalk at London's L'Oreal Colour Trophy hairdressing competition today; image via Getty] -
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It's My Zipper, Isn't It?
A participant at the Wave Gothic Festival today in Leipzig, Germany. The music festival...spans four days and dozens of musical acts playing inside and outside venues across Leipzig. [Photo by Katja Buchholz, via Getty] Related. -
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'Keep the Change.'
[Get it? That's our president, Barack Obama, at a Five Guys burger shack in Washington DC, pickin' up lunch for everyone like a real regular fellow; image via Getty] -
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All the Kids Just Walk On By
[That's FAO Schwarz toy store in Manhattan. Toys 'R Us announced today that it's bought the troubled high-end chain, which has filed for bankruptcy twice; image via Getty]










































