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Selling Mislabelled Sushi is Common - Bait and Switch
Kevin Mahaffey sent in a 1-off but damn interesting find by New York high school students Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss: 25% of sushi you buy is not what you ordered (it’s usually something cheaper). The NYT covered the story in which the girls got 60 different samples of sushi from around New York, then using [...]
Continue reading...T-Mobile Begins 3G Rollout with New York
Monday, May 5, 2008
Update #1: When I originally wrote this article yesterday I had BlackBerry on the brain and wrote this as a “BlackBerry rolls out 3G” article… just replace every time I used “BlackBerry” with “T-Mobile”… uggg… I guess doing heroin THEN writing the news is a bad combo? The ever-awaited T-Mobile 3G rollout has begun with the [...]
Continue reading...New York Seeks to Ban Geiger Counters & Air Monitoring Hardware
Monday, January 28, 2008
The Village Voice is running a story that New York officials are lobbying to remove Geiger counters (and any other kind of air quality or asbestos detector) from the hands of citizens unless authorized to carry them by the police: And it’s not just devices to detect weaponized anthrax that they want the power to control, [...]
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
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