Six firefighters and one civilian were injured yesterday in a blaze that took place in the Hamilton Heights section of Manhattan. The fire started around 1 a.m. on the second floor of a building on Amsterdam Avenue near 146th Street and lasted around an hour and a half. Three dozen of the adults and children residing in the building had to evacuate their homes and stay with friends or in nearby motels. One woman feared that the fire had burned down her Christmas tree and all of the gifts she had already purchased this holiday season. All injuries were minor....
An '80s themed holiday website? Have I died? A Betamax Xmas is the greatest thing to happen to me this holiday season since I asked Santa for a TiVo HD XL and he said maybe. The site is set up like an old living room with a big tube TV in the center, which plays nothing but vintage Christmas programming. You can even change the channel if you get sick of reindeer cartoons and decide you're jonesing for some heart-warming claymation. To learn how to post your favorite websites to our Website of the Day group, read more...
Online shoppers looking to spend the holiday season firmly planted on the couch can add the iPhone 3G back to their lists -- we've just confirmed that Apple and AT&T have quietly brought back in-home activation. Sure, it's been available in limited circumstances before, but now it's here and for real, just like with the first-gen unit. Would-be unlockers looking to score a phone for $199 flat can't start celebrating just yet, though -- you'll still have to provide your billing details and face an ETF if you don't activate within a set period of time. Oh well -- at...
Filed under: Handsets, ATT, AppleOnline shoppers looking to spend the holiday season firmly planted on the couch can add the iPhone 3G back to their lists -- we've just confirmed that Apple and AT&T have quietly brought back in-home activation. Sure, it's been available in limited circumstances before, but now it's here and for real, just like with the first-gen unit. Would-be unlockers looking to score a phone for $199 flat can't start celebrating just yet, though -- you'll still have to provide your billing details and face an ETF if you don't activate within a set period of time....
Chic leather goods brand Entermodal is bringing a new kind of pop-up shop to NYC this holiday season. The company is shipping designers, production team, and workstation from Portland to the ODIN New York store in Soho for a three day event during which you can see the team at work, buy original items, and get a look at the first release of Entermodal’s Spring 2009 collection. If you’re in the area, check it out at ODIN, 199 Lafayette Street, from December 12-14. © Orli Sharaby for PSFK, 2008. | Permalink | Comments | Add to del.icio.us...
Well played, Nintendo. With this stout defense, you have thwarted forever the aspirations of the evil modders. After all, how will a community of seasoned professionals with a deep understanding of your console’s systems get past this minor obstacle? Truly you have fundamentally interrupted the never-ending cycle described above in figure A. Either that, or there will be new products available before Christmas to deal with this particular model of Wii. Modders: if you’re getting a Wii this holiday season (that is, if you can find one), be sure to check its little model number before plunking down for...
The most positive thing ComScore could say about today's new round of holiday online sales figures: At least they're not worse than last year's. After a dismal start to the holiday shopping season, Web surfers have picked up their spending since Thanksgiving, ComScore reported this afternoon. The research firm said that from Dec. 1, the day known as Cyber Monday, through Friday, online spending reached $3.74 billion, a 9% gain over the same period last year. The relatively strong week helped push this holiday season's e-commerce sales, which had declined for the first time ever, back to the same...
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii has emerged as one of the few hot products this holiday season, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc will offer "tens of thousands" of the hard-to-get video game consoles on its website starting on Monday....
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After much hullabaloo and veiled threats from Mayor Bloomberg that property tax rebate checks would not be sent out due to the city's budget struggles, it appears that city homeowners will in fact receive them--possibly in time for the holiday season. After being called out on the idea of withholding the checks, the Bloomberg administration said that they did not have to mail them until June. But officials have begun privately saying they are pushing to get them out much sooner with Councilman David Weprin telling the Times, “Logistically, it might be physically too difficult to get the checks out...
Image Courtesy of Ciclus Design. Cava is the Spanish equivalent of champagne, but much tastier. The holiday season often finds companies giving gifts to their employees as a symbol of thanks for all their hard work throughout the year. Grupo Hera, a Spanish waste management and consulting firm commissioned a sustainably designed (and really cool) gift from Ciclus with the theme of turning waste into resources. Ciclus surpassed their goal and i......
