If there is one thing we here at Gothamist love it is Pandas. We may not all agree on the merits of procedural dramas like L&O but who doesn't love a good panda? So we have to admit we were kinda excited to stumble onto the above video on Google Video. We've written about the above "Panda Dog" before (it's a poodle/Maltese hybrid and also a dye job) but we hadn't seen it live......

There's a fascinating NY Times article about the challenge of maintaining and organizing materials from September 11, 2001 as there's no official organization up to the task. The World Trade Center Memorial Museum is easily years from happening, all while there is so much information from the "best-documented catastrophe" that needs to be sorted through. According to Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, there may be thousands of possible collections. Some mentioned: - Camera......

Gothamist loves this story: The big impressionist and modern art auction at Sotheby's last night did not disappiont, as a mysterious man bid $95 million for the famous Picasso, Dora Maar with a black cat. The NY Times says that witnesses say he sounded Russian and give further reasons why the bidder was an enigma:He was obviously new to both Sotheby's executives, who would never have seated him in such a remote spot had they......

Some people watch the Super Bowl for the game, some people watch it because they know there will be Buffalo wings at the gathering, and some people watch it for the ads. You can thank Ridley Scott, Chiat/Day and Apple for making Super Bowl Commercial Analysis as big as Monday Morning Quarterbacking. There are many places where you can watch last night's ads - Google Video, USA Today, AdAge, the NY Times - but Gothamist......

- Howard Dean and Fernando Ferrer are meeting with subway commuters at 86th Street and Broadway right now - if you have pictures, link us! - John Guica of Brooklyn was found guilty of killing college student Mark Fisher two years ago - The NY Jets resigned former quarterback Vinny Testaverde to replace their injured roster; in reporting the story, the NY Times said the Jets were 2-1 - it took TWO writers to get......