law & order

Woman assaulted for asking loud cell phone talker to chill

Please tell the truth. Once in a while, you really want to tell someone describing at a high lung level the date they had last night with a perverted zombie to just belt up. Or at least to make his or her cell phone call a little more intimate.

Well, a woman standing in line at a Brooklyn bodega found Berta Rakhmamimov's cell-phone conversation a little too piercing.

And she allegedly wound up attacked by Rakhmamimov's fists, coffee and, naturally, stiletto heels.

For those of you fond of a blow-by-blow account of fisticuffs, police said that Rahkmamimov first … Read more

U.K. prisoners doing time on Facebook?

I thought prison was supposed to be a miserable place.

But an increasing number of Facebook profiles are proving that it's really rather an entertaining spot to hang out in a recession.

It seems that prisoners in the United Kingdom are able to upload images and touching messages to their loved ones on the pages of Facebook. And their jailers either don't know it's happening or are too busy checking to see if Donkey's Dream won the 3.30 race at Royal Ascot.

Here is an example from the Facebook page of Ross Ajilo, a 19-year-old … Read more

Poll: Do you ever listen to music, without also doing something else?

The iPhone commercial parody on YouTube with genius filmmaker David Lynch hit the mark for me. His insight about people watching movies on iPhones, I'm paraphrasing--"You think you've seen the movie after watching it on your iPhone, but you'll be cheated. You haven't seen the movie."--could also be applied to music.

Just because you were listening to music while text messaging your boy/girlfriend doesn't mean you've actually heard the music. Exposure to music, art, film, what have you, is not the same as active engagement. It's kind of … Read more