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From the Gothamist Newsmap: a car into a school at Freeport Loop and Pennsylvania Ave, crowd control on Glenmore Ave and an unstable building at Wilson and Bleecker Aves, all in Brooklyn.
A Brooklyn juror got so fed up with "pointless" cross-examination from the ADA in the manslaughter trial she was serving on that she successfully requested to be removed from the jury, saying she could no longer be objective.
NYPD is stepping up security at Jewish landmarks around the city in the wake of today's fatal shooting at Washington DC's Holocaust Museum.
An Upper East Side building had to be evacuated after being deemed unstable from what officials believe were cracks caused by constant Second Avenue Subway drilling.
The NJ father attempting to bring his son home from Brazil, where he has been since 2004, came one step closer with a court victory today.
An anti-abortion group is considering an attempt to buy the clinic where Dr. George Tiller was shot last week.
The A-Rod biography that made big off-season headlines by breaking revelations that he tested positive for steroids has been a big flop since hitting bookstores.
David Letterman has already won his first rating battle against Conan O'Brien, not that Conan had help from the NBC's broadcast of the NHL Finals.
Phil Spector's mug shot reveals what the legendary record producer looks like without one of the many wigs he's been seen in throughout the last few years.
And in honor of National Iced Tea Day, here is an assortment of ridiculous iced tea commercials over the years.

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By Billy Parker in Miscellaneous on June 10, 2009 7:00 PM

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jaycjay

"Really shocking when you consider how many sports fans are known to love to read . . ."

The book was never really targeted to sports fans. If it were to appeal to anyone, it'd be celebrity gossip fans.

The top ranked sports book at Amazon right now is at #45 in sales. Even Torre's book is still at #125. That book contained some "gossipy" elements and appeal, but still focused more on the sport than on that stuff.

Selena Roberts' book (ranked at #2,065 at Amazon) is about marital indiscretions, drug use, and star power... not about baseball. And even people interested in those topics don't have to buy it, because her publicity efforts before and immediately after its publication revealed everything that was in it.

Global Wombat

THE JUICE IS LOOSE

God, I luve subliteracy.

JenChungsBaby

I saw a car on 79th street last week with a sign that said "For Sail -- $2000". I didn't look like it could float.

rhodamine

Get Loose, Baby... Get Loose!

sheepinthemeadow

The link to the tea commercials is a trojan virus- my Avast caught it. Please remove the link so other people aren't infected.

jaycjay

What is on that page is an iframe exploit that could be used maliciously; it redirects the browser to a different page without the user seeing that it's happening. It can be used to open popups even if a popup blocker is running. Usually it's harmlessly used just to do that, or to increase the hit count of another page or pages of ads.

Sometimes called a "trojan clicker," because it acts as if you've clicked a link, as opposed to a "trojan downloader" which directly downloads and installs something.

This one's probably not actually doing anything harmful, but most anti-virus programs will alert any time the technique is encountered.

Steven

The link to the tea commercials worked fine here with NOD32.

savedbyzero

Spector will give Andy Serkis a run for his money to portray Smeagol/Gollum in future Lord of the Rings movies.

Anonymous Lost Cause

"The A-Rod biography that made big off-season headlines by breaking revelations that he tested positive for steroids has been a big flop since hitting bookstores." Really shocking when you consider how many sports fans are known to love to read . . .

mx0

Right. That's why publishers, who clearly know less about their business than you do, continue to produce sports publications. Because they like losing money.

Thanks for the insight, Captain of Industry!

Anonymous Lost Cause

If what you are implying was correct, no book would ever lose money because the publishers would never make mistakes. It's not about whether they like or don't like to lose money, Captain Rant-y, it's about occasionally having poor judgement.

mx0

I'm not implying anything. I'm pointing out that your comment "Really shocking when you consider how many sports fans are known to love to read . . ." was stupid. The implication is clear: sports fans don't read, so sports publications don't sell. If you were actually trying to indicate that publishers occasionally erroneously judge the market, your post failed twice.

Your follow-up attempt to change focus by recasting what "Really shocking when you consider how many sports fans are known to love to read . . ." is also stupid.

Plus what jayclay said.

The Edge

I just wanted to add that this movie looks amazing:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/06/09/must-watch-awesome-promo-trailer-for-the-warriors-way/