September 30, 2005
Extra, Extra
- Luckily no one was seriously hurt when a school bus toppled over on the Major Deegan Expressway; authorties say that the kids' seatbelts might have saved them - check out this picture from Newsday
- The high school teacher accused of raping a student (a "consensual sexual affair" started when she was 14 - he was 43) was found dead, of an apparent suicide
- More details on the ipodsubwaymaps's cease-and-desist orderes from the MTA and BART... we imagine that in MTA time, the agency will have iPod subway maps by 2007
- And mark October 23 in your calendars, as it was the first Times Square Dog Day Masquerade - the Times Square BID is asking for dog owners to dress their canines as Broadway show characters or famous Times Square types (like the Naked Cowboy or an MTV groupie)
- GoogleMaps mashups of the city; use them for your summons hearings
- Is the South Bronx the next Park Slope? The drugs are keeping the property prices down!
- And stop by the Soho Apple Store tonight to check out NYC Photobloggers 5
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Unless ipodsubwaymaps is using the exact trademarked design of the NYC subway graphic design, I find it mind boggling how they expect people to cease and desist from distributing graphic descriptions of physical infrastructure owned by the public. Even if it was a copy of the exact same map, it would still seem a stretch. It's like the city suing people who sell stuff with the NYPD or FDNY logos. They're certainly valuable brands to some extent, but they belong to the public and prohibiting their use would seem to infringe on 1st Amendment rights. Can I not sell shirts on the street that said "I Got Beat Down By The NYPD" because of trademark infringement? I gotta get to law school or something.
Jen - i finally saw you tonight at the apple store and you are so incredibly beautiful, and so i just had to express that...wow
Jen - do you have a boyfriend?