Looking West from DUMBO by Bluejake
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: police car MVA in Queens, a bunch of shootings, and a bank robbery in Chelsea.
- Scientists have confirmed that there is water on the moon. That'll make it easier to make Tang!
- If the world's tallest building was in Manhattan, it'd still be really ostentatious and ugly.
- Katie Couric's $15MM salary is $4MM more than the combined budget of NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
- The Foer brothers do everything better than you, including building Sukkahs.
- Some more facts about Mikhail Prokhorov, the shadowy oligarch who bought the Nets: he's 6'8" tall, made his fortune in nickel mining, and likes hanging out with prostitutes.
- A 19.2lb baby was born in Indonesia. That's one big baby!
- Kirk Cameron wants to give you a free copy of a very special edition of Darwin's Origin of the Species.





Oh Mike Seaver, what the hell happened to you?
for reals.
You won't be enjoying moon Tang anytime soon, folks...unless you take your tang frozen on a stick. There's no liquid water on the moon; any water there is (which ain't much) is ice.
"moon Tang" - is that we call Katy Couric now? (: > )
Yeah, and the last time anyone "planted a flag" on her was 1972.