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Fistfight at The US Open: There Goes The Neighborhood

Gray Hurlburt :: Friday, September 03, 2010
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Tennis can reek with boredom as an observer sport. Little has happened to give it spark since McEnroe retired. But this all changed at the US Open last night, when one heckler’s choice of words launched a bleacher-wide brawl.

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Stephen Hawking: Sorry, No God

Kyle Daley :: Thursday, September 02, 2010
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Excerpts from his book, ‘The Grand Design’ appeared in the UK’s ‘The Guardian’ on Thursday which set ablaze the paper’s website. Hawking wrote, “it is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”

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Update: Oil Rig Explosion Might Be Leaking

Jared Davis :: Thursday, September 02, 2010
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The Associated Press is reporting that the oil rig explosion that happened earlier today is casting a mile long oil sheen in the Gulf, falsifying previous reports of the well being inactive.

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Did BP Assassinate This Man?

DJ Pangburn :: Thursday, September 02, 2010
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On August 8th, 2010, sometime in the late evening, investment banker, oil industry insider and energy advisor to President George W. Bush, Matthew Simmons, put on a pair of swimming trunks, climbed into his hot tub at his Maine home and attempted to relax after a long day’s work. By 10:00pm Simmons had been found dead, floating in the hot tub of an apparent drowning.

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Another Oil Rig Explodes Hours After Gov. Jindal Calls For Lift of Drilling Ban

Jared Davis :: Thursday, September 02, 2010
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Early Wednesday another oil rig exploded in the Gulf Coast. This news comes only hours after Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal made a speech pushing to lift the Obama administration’s ban on deepwater drilling.

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Is Andy Roddick’s Wrath Why America Is Losing?

Alex Moore :: Thursday, September 02, 2010
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Andy Roddick went down in the second round of the US Open last night, in a wave of vitriol over a foot foul, taking America’s chances at the tournament with him. Is there an apt metaphor here for America’s challenges on the world stage?

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BP’s $94 Million Advertising Campaign Could Have Been Better Spent

Andrew Belonsky :: Thursday, September 02, 2010
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British Petroleum spent about $94 million on advertising after the oil spill. Was it worth it?

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The Muslim Five

Matthew Uhlmann :: Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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Ramadan services at a mosque in upstate New York were repeatedly disrupted last week by five local teenagers driving around in a car brandishing a twelve gauge shotgun and an utter lack of creativity.

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SpaceX Plans to Reach Orbit in October

Kyle Daley :: Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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The privatized space exploration firm led by Tesla Motors founder, Elon Musk, hopes its Dragon capsule will make history by being one of the first commercially owned capsules to reach orbit.

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Discovery TV Hostage Situation: More Human Than The Human

Stephen Blackwell :: Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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In March, Andrew Joseph Stack III, a libertarian from Austin, Texas, flew a plane into the city’s IRS building. At that point, right-wing anti-government sentiment took a dangerous turn. Liberal earth-defenders don’t seem to have much in common with their Tea Party counterparts, but James Jae Lee has proven us wrong. UPDATE.

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What If Hurricane Earl (Or Any Major Hurricane) Comes To New York?

Colin Jones :: Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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Hold onto your hats New Yorkers, we could be in for a bumpy ride this Labor Day weekend. While the Category 3 monster Hurricane Earl is not expected to make direct landfall here in New York, we could experience some nasty leftovers if it continues on its current West-bound course.

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Brandon Spikes Video: Chatroulette Can Still See Your Penis

Alex Moore :: Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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Chatroulette recently announced a software to recognize all lewd images (dicks) and keep them from appearing on the site in real-time. But as Brandon Spikes demonstrated this morning, it clearly doesn’t work. Celebs beware: Chatroulette can still see your penis. And so can we.

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