Artist Thomas Broome draws things by writing their names.  Very cool!

New taxis are coming to NYC and they’ll have a touch-screen device that allows you to track your trip, watch news, check weather (you can’t just look out the window?), pay by credit card, and even calculate a tip:

And perhaps best of all, especially for riders driven to distraction by an experiment with “taxi TV” a few years ago, passengers can turn it all off.

“If you want a silent trip, you’re going to get it,” said Taxi & Limousine Commissioner Matthew Daus.

Now they just need to work on the smell in some of the cabs.

The U.S. Armed Forces can’t keep it’s Times Square recruiting center clear of pigeons, so they installed a speaker system on the roof that produces pigeon predator noises:

The pigeons, having abandoned the southern end of the recruiting station roof, where the speakers are, stay put on the northern end.

Forget Iran and North Korea!  Call the Iraq Study Group back to the table!  The U.S. Armed Forces have bigger problems to deal with.

Does the U.S. Army think that some sounds of a fake predator, that NYC pigeons have probably never seen or heard, would scare off city hardened birds of opportunity?  Especially those in Times Square?  Is that tactic part of their normal arsenal, and has it worked against humans?  If so, we may need to reevaluate our position as the most intelligent species (the pigeons, as far as I can tell, do not have a Paris Hilton to bring down their collective average intelligence).

Speaking from experience, if pigeons are not afraid of going into an apartment and attacking its occupant for a nice looking wire, and if pigeons get their jollies pooping on people, then what makes the Army think they can shoo them away with some noise or metal spikes.

A passenger struck matches while on a flight to conceal body odor.  The quote of the article has to be:

American [Airlines] has banned her for a long time.