Posts by Blair Hickman

NYU Partners With NY Times for Hyperlocal East Village Blog

by Blair Hickman | 11:54 am, February 24th

Earlier this month, Gothamist founder Jake Dobkin went nuclear on the New York Times for its lack of innovation and abominable failure in the Metro space, calling Cityroom “a fairly lazy and sleep-inducing ripoff of Gothamist.”

How ironic, then, that just yesterday, the Times announced that it has partnered with NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute to create The Local: East Village, a hyperlocal blog that will be produced by NYU and published on the Times’ site. It’s like they could tell the future!

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DirectTV Finally Waives Early Termination Fee For Paralyzed WWII Vet

by Blair Hickman | 3:13 pm, February 19th

Corporate America will stop at nothing to suck you dry. Even if “you” are an 87-year-old WWII vet disabled by a recent stroke.According to the Houston Press, Robert Leeder (the vet) had a stroke that paralyzed half his body and moved into a nursing home, subsisting solely off his Veterans Affairs Benefits, Social Security and a “small pension.” When his family called to cancel his satellite, DirectTV slapped them with a $400 early termination fee. Andre Leeder, Robert’s son, wrote an appeal

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National Enquirer Officially Eligible For Pulitzer

by Blair Hickman | 2:13 pm, February 19th

According to the HuffPo, the The National Enquirer officially has permission to compete for the Pulitzer Prize. And according to us, Barry Levine officially has the right to scream “Suck it, Sulzberger!”

The National Enquirer entered the “Investigative Reporting” and “National News Reporting” categories for its coverage of the John Edwards baby-daddy scandal, an exclusive scoop they broke nearly a year before other publications even mentioned it. Once the public finally caught on, it effectively destroyed Edwards’ political career; last time I checked, this is a prime example of investigative journalism.

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James Cameron Turning Avatar Into a Novel

by Blair Hickman | 5:46 pm, February 17th

According to the Wall Street Journal, James Cameron confirmed Tuesday night that he, James Cameron, the highest-grossing film director of all time, will turn Avatar into a novel.

How interesting, considering that the best parts of the movie were its special effects.

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TechCrunch Intern Fired For Requesting Macbook Air For Blog Post

by Blair Hickman | 4:43 pm, February 5th

This week, TechCrunch suspended Daniel Brusilovsky, an intern in the throes of his Senior year of high school, for requesting a Macbook Air in exchange for writing a post about a start-up. When a further investigation revealed that Brusilovsky had received under-the-table compensation — including another computer — for previous posts, they fired him.

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A Beginner's Guide to Diablo III's Lore

Twelve years later, the third installment in the famous hack-and-slash franchise has finally released. Though the franchise is largely known for an inordinate amount of hacking and slashing, there's actually quite a bit of complex lore backing it up. Luckily for you, we have it summed up right here. Take a gander.

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Rollin Bishop Easily the strangest thing I've seen this weekend. http://t.co/AW7UGSQJ
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Max I really sandals.
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Max Despite having an invitation from Cuba, I will be unable to attend "Battleship" in LA tonight.
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Eric Limer Cure for boredom: Start enough pet projects that you're procrastinating literally all the time. Suddenly, everything is fascinating!
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Max (exasperated horse noise)
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Eric Limer bacon cheddar croutons
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Eric Limer [picture of a fishbowl filled with keys from various styles of keyboards] Title: Key Party.
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Eric Limer Arby's: It's Good Feud Food for Shrewd Dudes with Crude 'Tudes.
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Eric Limer Arby's: It's Good, Lewd Food.
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Max I'm ready to meet the celestial moth. I'm ready to hang out.
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James Plafke More like Kid Dickarus amirite?
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Eric Limer I'm still in love with the Jet Set Radio soundtrack, and a lot of that strikes me as sort of proto-dubstep.
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James Plafke Guy working out in sunglasses is super cool.
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James Plafke I find that when I put something on a reminders list, I won't remember about it. But if I don't put it on a list, I'll remember forever.
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Eric Limer "What do I do? Oh, I'm a herpderpetologist."
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Max Wanna count some snakes? http://t.co/bYbKwiTd
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Max My new Homealone-inspired art-rock band "30 Seconds to Marv"
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Eric Limer Sometimes I feel like an adult. Then I put on my pinstripe Vans shorts and that feeling goes away.
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Max Struck me how weird it is that I thought "better adjust my alarm clock" and reached for my phone.
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Eric Limer I always forget you can upload pictures through Twitter and use Imgur instead; I'm a Redditor at heart, I guess.
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