Photograph by istolethetv on Flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: A building collapse on Kings Highway in Brooklyn, an evidence search on E 163 & Kelly in the Bronx and a...

Not only does Barack Obama, as uncovered by Patrick Ruffini, try to communicate to residents of Germany in the German language he also (as Dr. Melissa Couthier sagely...

Dana Goldstein writes: Robert Novak is driving a black corvette on K Street. He hits a pedestrian crossing the street in a crosswalk with a "walk" sign. And then he...

If there ever were a “Sara needs a hug” moment… I’m doing a talk on Friday called Towards a Stronger Open Source Ecosystem.  It’s a story about...

Patrick Ruffini slams the Obama campaign for using a foreign language in its promotional material for an event in Germany. Apparently it's now unpatriotic to so much as...

Photograph by yovanoff on Flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: Truck vs. tracks on Eastchester Road in the Bronx, a child burn victim on E 52nd in Brooklyn and a traffic...

Digital texts are not necessarily the way to go, nor will they utterly replace paper books — I’ve long found this statement true. Now here’s an essay...

Photograph by eyesontheroad on Flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: An escaped prisoner at 183 St & Jerome Av in the Bronx, a CO incident at 42nd St & the U.N. in...

I'm sympathetic to some of Dave Roberts' critique of this year's Netroots Nation panels, but I'm not sure that this particular metric quite makes sense: In some sense...

It’s only been a week since my review of the Top 10 FREE iPhone apps, and since then I’ve amassed a ton of information on the coolest free apps on the store....

The top 15 out of a 37-quip week.A = Authors | C = Community A / No. 50 / Armin / Do you stick up your nose at wine in a can? Leave it to the Swedish to make it awesome....

It seems that one of Gordon Brown's aides was caught in a "honeytrap" and let a Chinese spy steal his Blackberry. Fair enough. But this doesn't have the ring of truth to...

Photo of Charlton Athletic FC and the Thames Barrier by Dean Nicholas. Londonist was treated to some fantastic views of the city, courtesy of the 'Star Over London'...

James Spiegel, author of Gum, Geckos, and God, is going on a book blog tour beginning today. The blog tour features 13 blogs and 15 bloggers on 12 posting dates. Below...

About 4 months back, the Flash team at Comcast Interactive Media released LogBook, our first official open source project. This blog post is a retrospective on the...

Adriana spotted this (via Ugly Doggy) and it made me laugh (and want to cry, a little.) And if you liked that, you'll forgive me for reminding you of this one: ...

Isaac Chotiner says David Brooks is wrong about Disraeli: As for Disraeli, whose new conservative party was created out of opposition to free trade(!), his second...

Rob Brooks-Bilson just posted on a topic we’ve been discussing in the office lately: the sterility of 99% of the food options in AZ, the idiocy of the food...

Every once in a while I toy with the thesis that someone ought to make a big deal about the fact that a lot of the standard statistical data about the United States that...

Earlier this month, the Sunday Times caught longtime Bush associate Stephen Payne on tape offering access to top Bush administration officials in exchange for...