Oh Sh*t!: Diaroogle.com Public Restroom Finder

Nothing ruins a day like crapping your pants. But if you live in New York City, the inevitable ass-mergency we all experience from time to time just got a hell of a lot easier to deal with. Some kind and thoughtful people have started Diaroogle.com, which uses Google Maps to help you find the closest available public restroom.

Once you search, using address, zip code, neighborhood or the closest cross-street, Diaroogle doesn’t just show you where the bathroom is on the map, it tells you exactly where to go once you’re inside–and how to avoid anyone making your explain yourself in those last crucial seconds before it all lets loose. Read More »

How To Not Be A Douchebag Tourist In NYC

Millions of people visit New York City every year. Unfortunately, naive visitors throw a wrench into the delicate gears of this busy city with their clueless meanderings and obtrusive groups. Because of this, tourists are the most despised group of people in a city that likes to hate judge people.

Here are a few unwritten laws of the land that you must follow to avoid coming across as a total douche, and pissing everyone around you off in the process. Read More »

Let’s Get David Wright Elected To The All-Star Team

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Corey Hart of the Milwaukee Brewers is leading the National League All-Star fan vote with David Wright behind by a mere 10%.

Being that the All-Star game is located in New York City and it’s only Wright right that D. Wright reps The Mets at the mid-summer’s classic.

Let’s harness the power of the Internet and get David Wright elected to the All-Star game via fan vote.

Visit this page on MLB.com and give D. Wright your vote, then pass the word along to 3-4 friends and ask them to do the same.

Watch Out For Heisman Sleepers

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Watch Out For Heisman Sleepers

In order for any of these players to have a chance at the Heisman trophy, their teams must perform well. But each of the players listed is blessed with the ability to carry his team on his back, as well as rack up some crazy stats during the course of the year.

Most of these guys are players you have probably heard of before. I am just pointing out the fact that if their teams do well, don’t be surprised if you see one or more of them in New York City as a top candidate for the Heisman. [Bleacher Report]

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vs9g0489.jpgEditorial: Cutting Student Paper’s Print Edition A Cowardly Cop-Out

What if today, when you walked past your school paper’s newsstands, all of them were empty? And what if there were no more editions - not just today or tomorrow, but forever?

Students at the Mississippi University for Women may soon find themselves in a similar plight after MUW faculty decided to move its student newspaper, The Spectator, exclusively online and discontinue its print edition.

As journalists who work with a print publication and a corresponding Web site every day, we agree with incoming Spectator editor-in-chief Sarah Wilson that moving a print newspaper exclusively online is a terrible move. Many internationally acclaimed journalism experts - including our very own Chair of Journalism Samir Husni - agree that while the Internet is certainly changing the process and purpose of print journalism, online journalism will by no means completely replace print journalism at any point in the foreseeable future. [Daily Mississippian]

Bon Jovi To Rock Central Park… For Free

All-Star rocker Bon Jovi will be performing a free concert at New York’s Central Park on July 12th at 8PM to kick off Major League Baseball’s 2008 All-Star game celebrations taking place at Yankee Stadium on July 15th.

“All-Star Summer is set to hit New York City in a few weeks, and the lineup of festivities just added another future Hall-of-Famer in Bon Jovi,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

“The free concert in Central Park is going to help make this year’s All-Star Summer a celebration to remember. The 2008 All-Star Game will pay tribute to the storied history of Yankee Stadium, and Bon Jovi will help us ensure it goes out in a blaze of glory — hopefully a blaze in late October.”

Tickets for this free event become available on Wednesday July 2nd at MLB.com.

Laid Bare: Life Lessons at the Strip Club

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Obnoxiously bright blues, greens and various shades of pink are walking, talking and dancing all around me. For some reason the intensely colored, and revealing dresses are the focus of my attention initially, not the girls wearing them. I can’t help but think this was a bad idea.

I’m nervous. This isn’t an excited, happy nervous; it’s an anxious, uncomfortable nervous. I’ve never been to a strip club before. I agreed to come here because I’m in New York City for the first time, my friends wanted to go, and it seems like the perfect time to try something new. Maybe I don’t like new.

Some of the girls are sitting and talking to customers, some are hanging around the edges of the club in small groups, and one girl is dancing on stage, slowly removing her clothes. I’m supposed to watch her, to be turned on, to want her. I don’t. I feel like a voyeur; averting my eyes from the stage like it’s something private meant for someone else. Read More »

The UN is a Waste of Rhetoric!

unSitting her on a Saturday morning, after the gym, after breakfast, middle of coffee - and I find 3 stories in a row that show how truly ineffective the UN is. I am speechless and staggered by an overwhelming lack of effectiveness or even marginally decisive ideals.

Case 1: Zimbabwe. This a**whole has been slaughtering everyone who even speaks about running against him. So, the US and Europe put out a vote that the elections be nullified. Thank God South Africa came to the rescue! You remember South Africa, the apartheid people?

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Santa Clause Drowns: No Ice At North Pole This Summer!

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Prepare for your mind to be blown: Scientist predict that there will be no ice at the North Pole this summer, the most dramatic evidence of global warming to date. Though the thaw is not yet complete, predictions set the odds at greater than 50:50 for a full meltdown.

Disappearance of the arctic ice will allow, for the first time in modern days, countries near the pole access to the predicted natural resources uncovered by the melting. Though the environmental impacts are more symbolic than consequential, politically and economically, the consequences are substantial. Read More »

Vincent Chase Holds Nothing Back

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You might know Adrian Grenier as the slightly smug, slightly self-centered, but always adorable Vince from HBO’s hit Entourage. Although I personally think the show’s success has a lot to do with the hilarity of the character actors (including my personal skeevy love Jeremy Piven), Grenier certainly plays a major role in attracting viewers—a fact he has obviously let infect his brain and speech pattern.

As reported by a Radar journalist, Grenier recently showed up at a Lower East Side (read: skinny jeans and soul patches) party and spoke some choice words to a lady he apparently fancied. Instead of attempting to have a nice conversation like the rest of us common folk, Grenier the celebrity went straight for the kill—because, well, he thought he could.

Transcribed via Radar:

Adrian: Hi, what’s your name?
Brunette: [Giggling. It is obvious she knows who he is; she is flattered that he has approached her] Elizabeth*. What’s yours?
Adrian: Adrian.
Brunette: Nice to meet you! And what do you do, Adrian?
Adrian: I make documentary films.
Brunette: Oh really?
Adrian: Yeah. And some other stuff on the side. What about you?
Brunette: I’m in fashion.
Adrian: That’s cool. So how about we go home and I f*ck the sh*t out of you? Read More »

The Daily Shocker: High School Football is Gay

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Leave all wide-receiver jokes at the door.

Who woulda thunk it: the IRS is the one claiming pure BS.

What would get you tail in ‘77 will kill you in ‘07.

VIDEO: if this video is real, I’m horrified.

If you take the M1 bus in NYC, you may be late for work - a whole week late.

The biggest turn-on for a man is…bacon?

“What does Vajayjay mean to you?”