Building the Big Apple

• A record 58 percent of Americans say legalize marijuana
• “Officers shall not take any enforcement action … for a violation of I-502”
• An insight to reporting on a movie press junket (for The Hobbit)
• The Zapruder Film: the saddest and most expensive 26 seconds of amateur film ever made
• The curious case of Clairvius Narcisse, and other instances of Hatian “zombies”
• Exploring the Paris Metro’s eerie ghost stations
• UC Berkeley Librarian to Daily Cal sex columnist: ‘Please don’t f*ck in the Library’
• Journey soundtrack nominated for a Grammy

• Photos: What it looks like inside Amazon
• Truth in advertising: The Birth of ‘Just Do It’ and Other Magic Words
• Christopher Nolan discusses making his first feature Following
• On Monday, not a single violent crime was reported in New York City
• Chew On This: 10 Food Idioms Explained
• Like it or not, non-replaceable CPUs may be the future of desktops
• Augmenting a light bulb to make a touch screen desk
• Prices have finally been announced for the Surface Pro
• Plus Microsoft have put out a pretty great self-depreciating ad for IE10

• Pamela Ribon’s horrific and yet hilariously told masseuse experience
• They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
• The Big Apple’s Mayor Makes A Very Scary Video on CO2 Emissions
• NYC payphones get revived as touch-screen tablets
• Visual evolution of the mobile phone
• Straight Outta ‘Goodfellas’: $1.5 Million In iPads Stolen In JFK Heist
• UK’s ‘last typewriter’ produced
• Whoa… Sound bullets in water
• Remember that scary undersea “bloop” noise? At last we know what caused it.
• Why Revolution Can’t Come to North Korea
• NYT Op-ed: The Trouble With Online Education
• The Magnificent Find: Discovering the Lincoln Death Photograph
• The Red Bull 400: a 45 degree, 400m race
• 22 Things your doing wrong
• This guy’s version of Episode I’s potential plot is pretty damn good (and depressing)

Quite the way to get a point across to a tv network; but still, watching Zombies performing mundane tasks in New York is pretty funny.

Photographer Navid Baraty is a jerk that takes awesome photos from over the edge of New York skyscrapers. Obviously he’s not really a jerk (or at least I can’t say so, cause I’ve never met the man but I’m sure he’s an upstanding citizen), but sweet jebus some of these photos remind a bit too easily, the whole horrible heights fearing thing.

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