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Koch Industries Backs Formaldehyde Council, Fighting Regulation of Carcinogen

The poor Koch family just can't get a break these days.

First Brian wrote Billlionaire David Koch: 25 Years of Disinformation Campaigns and Polluter Front Groups?, then Matt followed with 'Financial Kingpin' of Climate Change Denial Exposed: Koch Industries Outspends Exxon 3-to-1.

Seth the AT&T Blogger Guy Shows Us All the Stuff They"re Doing In New York

In this video we find AT&T's rep, Seth Bloom, reaching out to New Yorkers in particular and explaining, as simply as possible, why their calls suck and how AT&T is trying to fix the problem. Wow.

Madonna -- Like a Subway Commuter

New Yorkers are used to seeing all kinds of things on the subway, but yesterday one of the most bizarre incidents ever happened ... Madonna rode public transportation. The super-fit 52-year-old really does like to train.

Comment of the Day: Everyone in New York Is Fat [We Read You]

Today we looked at the relative healthiness of New Yorkers. Yay!, we all said. Well, all of us except one foreign commenter who begged to differ. Agree? Disagree? Again, it's all relative.

Oliver Sacks on face blindness

Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks has prosopagnosia (face blindness) and he wrote about it in The New Yorker. The article isn't online, but here's an audio interview with him.

The Center of the Universe [New York]

[Astronaut Douglas Wheelock took this picture of New York from the International Space Station and posted it to his Twitter account.

He was probably wondering how many New Yorkers were stepping in human urine at this very moment.

The Imp, a great journal about comic books, now as free PDFs

Daniel Raeburn has done the world a favor by creating free PDF versions of his outstanding self-published journal about comic books, The Imp. Though he published only four issues (I have them all in hard copy) Raeburn's journal is regarded as a masterpiece of comic book criticism.

Tumblr's Improved Attribution is Good News for Publishers

Tumblr is quickly becoming one of the Web's most popular and unique platforms on which to share and discover interesting content of all media. According to Tumblr, over 5,3 million posts are made each day by the service's over 7,5 million users.

New Yorkers split over mosque planned near Ground Zero

New York Times poll shows two-thirds want to see the proposed mosque built further from the site of the 9/11 attacks

The controversy around the proposal to build a mosque close to Ground Zero has caused a deep rift within those most directly affected New Yorkers with a ne

Google building infested by bed bugs

They are reddish-brown, smaller than an apple seed, have a taste for human blood and when they bite they itch like hell. And now the onward march of the common bedbug has extended into cyberspace.