- Here's a fun game with your digital camera. Set it to a long exposure, take a picture, and throw the camera up in the air. In the end you should get a kind of spirograph-style picture. When you are done post it to flickr with the tag "cameratoss."
- FDNY response times continue to decline.
- A group of Staten kids burned down a building, knowing that there was a homeless man inside.
- The Villager clarifies the upcoming changes to the Jefferson Market Library.
- Our favorite Post headline in a while: Public Lovers Nailed.
- And finally, we were going to link to a cute Times fluff piece on where the umbrellas that suddenly appear on the street come from because it leads with a rare actually kinda sweet West Side Story reference ("Umbrella. Say it fast, as one peddler did in Times Square – umbrella-umbrella-umbrella – and there's music playing. Say it soft, as another peddler did at Herald Square - ummm-brell-laa - and it's almost like praying. Umbrella. Umbrella. Will we ever stop saying, Umbrella?") but the article is apparently a "Times Select" article. So to hell with that.

Cameratoss picture from Dustin3000's flickr stream.