Results tagged “panda”

Who doesn't need some good news on a rainy day? It's been a while since we've checked up on Wall Street's unofficial mascot, Sad Panda, and guess what we found out when we did? He was happy one sunny day back in May! You know what this means, Sad Panda probably just has Seasonal Affected Disorder like the rest of us. Maybe he's really just S.A.D. Panda.

If you happened to look at Google Maps' Street View, you may have noticed the usual yellow "peg man" has been replaced by a panda. (Doesn't seem to be Sad Panda, though.) According to GoogleMapsMania, "Following complaints that the little yellow man shaped Street View icon wasn't cute enough Google have today replaced Pegman in Google Maps Street View with a panda." And Google Maps users in different countries have different icons. Unfortunately, it appears to be part of Google's April Foolery, involving an artificial intelligence program named CADIE (which also has a blog).

It hasn't even been a week since we last checked in with Sad Panda, but readers have been flooding our inbox with their old photos of the lovable bear spotted on the subway, in Times Square, and all over the city's mean streets. The two above photos, however, were taken just moments ago in what appears to be our subject's natural habitat: the Financial District. More specifically, he was sitting on his stool at Bowling Green and Broadway, south of the Charging Bull. Life isn't all bamboo and blog love, however, looking more down and out than usual, it's apparent that even Sad Panda can get a case of the Mondays.

      

Reader David Velez (link NSFW) sent us these photos of a sad looking panda walking around downtown at Battery Park late yesterday afternoon. Was he laid off from the zoo? He was carrying a Duane Reade bag and kept his head hung low as he walked amongst the humans. Aw, depression era panda, you make us so sad. (Though the eye witness pointed out this could be some sort of fetish thing, in which case, gross.)

Some cute news: A panda who survived the May earthquake in Sichuan has now given birth to twins. Panda Guo Guo was relocated from the Wolong panda research center to another nearby city and was the first panda to give birth this year. While staffers could weigh the elder of the twins (6 ounces), the other was left unweighed because Guo Guo was cuddling it--aww!

An animal near and dear to the Gothamist heart has been embroiled in a Super Bowl controversy! This year's wardrobe malfunction is now the debate over an animated ad from SalesGenie.com that features pandas.