DIRTY, DANGEROUS & DESTITUTE | NEW YORK IN THE 70s
If you’ve ever spent time in NYC, particularly if you did your time in NYC post 1990, you need to look at this series of photos. It’s funny — the New York I know is in there somewhere, if I look closely, but it’s different, an erie alternate reality of the New York that exists in my head.

More than a few years back, I was walking up 40th past Bryant Park with my boss at the time, Jay, and he said– “You wouldn’t even recognize this place back in the 70s… you’d have been tripping over hypodermic needles, and fighting off the hookers back then.  It was nasty, man.” A chort was about all I could muster-up as a response.

Major Update for Google Docs
This is generally terrific news. Google Docs is already great, but the learning curve has been tough for those unaccustomed to working in the cloud. The new interface and collaboration tools will ease that sell, I think.

Besides using a new infrastructure, the document editor and the spreadsheet editor will add many new features. The document editor has real-time editing, sidebar chat, a new commenting system, better formatting and an improved importing feature. The spreadsheet editor brings back auto-complete, adds a formula bar for editing cells and you can now drag and drop columns.

Twitter / AP Stylebook: Responding to reader input ….
Tide came in slow on this one.

Captivating Examples of Sleeveface Photography
Some of these things are really terrific. Worth exactly :42 of your day.

FOXNews.com – 7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls
Not that this should be a surprise to anyone — terms and conditions of use are as complicated as US tax code these days — but this is one of those wonderfully playful tests of legalese. I didn’t make a purchase that would qualify, but if I got a letter from Gamestation nullifying their claim on my soul, I would frame it.
From the click-through terms agreement:

“By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions.”

Thanks @curtsiffert.