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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a burn victim on Bedford Ave in Brooklyn, a barricaded EDP in the Stuyvesant Oval in Manhattan and a bank robbery on 7th Ave in Manhattan.
- The latest bad sign of the times might be coming from what is expected to be record numbers of New Yorkers applying for food stamps for the first time.
- Sign this petition so bloggers can get press passes and yell "FIRST!" whenever Mayor Bloomberg takes questions.
- There are no fewer than five online campaigns trying to get Stephon Marbury voted in as an NBA All-Star starter despite not having seen a minute of playing time this year.
- Whoopi Goldberg was the keynote speaker at the Staten Island Advance Women of Achievement luncheon today.
- A treat for you Henson nerds: the 8 most underrated Muppets
- And in an article highlighting the merits of teens socializing on the internet, the Times translates this Facebook wall posting: “hey ... hm. wut to say? iono lol/well I left you a comment ... u sud feel SPECIAL haha.”
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Editors over at Shanghaiist decide to start a potentially dangerous witch hunt and ignore all comments/concerns about it.
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Along the with the MP3 of a guy going off on a customer service rep - bad yeah, but not deserving of a lynching or mob justice - is this quote from the author:
I have to add that China has a recent history of 'human flesh search engine' activity and this could have very real consequences.