+ Mayor Bloomberg hate cigs, but he doesn't want to raise the legal smoking age.
+ The feds have decided not to retry Junior Gotti-- apparently after losing three times, they've had enough.
+ Volunteers are collecting foliage from the High Line for replanting once the park is built.
+ The alleged child molestor killed by an angry Fairfield lawyer turns out to have been innocent-- apparently the child wasn't right.
+ NSFW Friday fun: Jordan Matter Photography takes pictures of naked girls all over New York City.
+ The Columbia Spectator went all Magnum P.I. and tracked down the identity of the Minuteman skull-kicker-- he turns out to be a steelworker from Queens.
+ The floor-space of all the Walmarts in America would cover almost all of the island of Manhattan.

"a close model of the absolute processes of fate", by Lu.