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Hacks/Hackers Meetup on Gawker Rooftop, Sept. 8, 2010

By Dan Nguyen | Published: September 9, 2010
Hacks/Hackers Meetup on Gawker Rooftop, Sept. 8, 2010, originally uploaded by zokuga. From the “Business and Pleasure” mixer for the news geeks group, Hacks/Hackers on the Gawker Media rooftop in Nolita. There was an open bar, but yet the dance floor was empty, which I’m sure was entirely unrelated to the infrequency of Lady GaGa [...]
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If Only We Could Stop ‘Ground Zero” Mosque With Zoning Laws

By Dan Nguyen | Published: August 17, 2010
Oh dang it, some advocacy group made that illegal in 2000.
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NYC Resident Discovers What Shopping in a Safeway/Key Foods/Walmart Supercenter is like for Asian/Hispanic-Americans

By Dan Nguyen | Published: August 6, 2010
NYC Resident Discovers What Shopping in a Safeway/Key Foods/Walmart Supercenter is like for Asian/Hispanic-Americans From the Onion WSJ’s New York edition, “Changes in Flushing Set Off Food Fight”, a group of people feel disenfranchised by a lack of Lean Cuisine: The recent closure of a Key Food in Flushing was the last straw for many [...]
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Not a bad way to make 50 cents these days

By Dan Nguyen | Published: July 28, 2010
Panhandler’s Sign: 50 cents to Smash my Head Goddammit this was my early retirement plan. And the guy obviously made bank with it if he doesn’t need the sign anymore. Or he’s brain damaged. Either way, he doesn’t have to worry about work anymore. Found on St. Marks place, between 2nd and 3rd avenues.
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Rush Limbaugh Sells Fifth Ave. Apartment for $6.5M profit and WSJ readers rail against the elitist snobbery of it all

By Dan Nguyen | Published: July 10, 2010
…by that, I mean of course, they rip on those damn elitist, pot-smoking, sodomy-loving liberals, including first-year unionized teachers and comparative literature grad students “working” as community organizers, who must all have multi-million dollar Upper West Side apartments of their own, which they bought by ruthlessly taxing hard-working, salt-of-the-earth people like Rush. From the Wall [...]
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Béquet Caramels in New York City, Manhattan

By Dan Nguyen | Published: July 9, 2010
Do you want to know where to buy Béquet Caramels, hand-made caramels from Montana, in New York/Manhattan? Well if you tried Googling it, you would’ve been very hard-pressed to find a useful result. Luckily, I did find this blog entry from Chelsea Market Baskets which talked about them (they’re sold for $18 a pound, or [...]
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“Bruce Nauman: Days,” a Sound Sculpture at the MOMA; I don’t get it

By Dan Nguyen | Published: June 4, 2010
How does the Museum of Modern Art follow up on the success of the incredibly popular (I found it a little bland, but it was sold out almost every day I went) Tim Burton exhibit (the 3rd highest attendance among MOMA exhibits of all time)? By putting what I’m betting will be the least attended [...]
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Birth Control? There’s an iPad app for that.

By Dan Nguyen | Published: April 26, 2010
Pampers "Hello Baby" iPad app at the bar, originally uploaded by zokuga. The baby products label, Pampers, put out a free app called “Hello Baby” which lets you input your baby’s info, get a week-by-weeky depiction of what it looks like in the momma, and then probably reminds you on the baby’s birthdate to buy [...]
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