Posts Tagged ‘ new york ’

10 Ways To Destroy New York

Sep 5th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Science Fiction

New York, New York: A city so nice they keep destroying it. In science fiction films, that is. The Big Apple is arguably the city most likely to be devastated by a giant monster or natural disaster in movies, in part because it has such lovely landmarks to devastate.



Summit debuts for Linux end users

Aug 28th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Linux

Held at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York, the End User Collaboration Summit will give “sophisticated” end users an opportunity to “learn and interact with leaders from within the Linux community, including the highest level maintainers and developers,” says the non-profit Linux Foundation, which will host the event.



Buffalo Police batter their way into wrong house

Aug 18th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Offbeat

After wrongly breaking into the apartment, police proceeded to strike an epileptic father in the head with the butt end of a shotgun and pointed their shotguns at his young children, before admitting their mistake and then raiding the right apartment, which was upstairs.



Museum plans exhibition of fakes

Aug 15th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Offbeat

The Brooklyn Museum, which recently announced its prized collection of stone sculptures from ancient Egypt was cluttered with fakes, is planning an exhibit with these pieces to raise awareness of forgeries in the world’s art collections.



Republicans in House at Risk in Northeast

Aug 14th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Election 2008

Republican Party’s challenges in the nine-state Northeast region are a reflection of what the party faces across the country as it is being forced to defend dozens of Congressional seats that are now considered competitive at a time when the party has limited financial resources, political analysts said.



New York’s Video Vigilante, Scourge of Parking Enforcers

Aug 4th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Offbeat

“Jimmy Justice” represents a new kind of citizen vigilante, particularly in New York, whose amateur videos are increasingly being used to hold law enforcers to account and shine a public spotlight on their excesses.



Girl survives 15-storey chimney plunge

Aug 4th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Offbeat

Residents found the girl at the bottom of the stack, not only alive, but with nothing more serious than a dislocated hip and two broken legs, local media reported.