​America's best bathrooms have been decided by the "Internet public," and our own Bryant Park public facilities -- investigated by Runnin' Scared's Annie Werner back in July -- alas, did not take the top prize. But it came in third for its "Beaux Arts design, full-time attendant, fresh cut flowers, scented oils, and electronic seat covers."

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​It's Friday, and we here at Runnin' Scared have an exciting, bittersweet staffing announcement to make to cap this week off with. One of our own is moving on.More >>

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​Facebook is taking "crazy cat lady" to a whole new level. You've seen them before, clogging up your news feed like cat hair in a bathroom sink (likely with pictures of cats in sinks). This phenomenon in which people create Facebook profiles for their pets is getting totally out of hand, as this recent report from CNN shows. Some pet profiling is harmless, but others take it too far. Here are some troublesome signs to watch out for.

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The messenger boy accent hat spells the future!

​It's never too early to get the youth hooked on luxury designer fashion, which is why Polo Ralph Lauren is going live with an online children's book complete with add-to-cart clickables next to each character's outfits, reports the Wall Street Journal. Now your child can learn how to read and seal their fate a credit card debtors all at once! We love happy endings. More >>

​When you're thinking about stealing some cash, why don't you try dressing up like Darth Vader? Or handing the teller a bouquet of flowers? Or being old? There are many creative ways to deceive law enforcement, but this morning Nakia Shaw of the Bronx decided to go a different route, through the back door, if you will...

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SUH-kurity

​We're back with the privacy debate on full body scanners. They're coming to New York soon, and yesterday, CNET reported that a privacy advocate group in D.C. is taking the Transportation Security Administration to task (again) because full body scanners used by feds in other departments are contradicting the claims that TSA has made about the capabilities and uses of the scanners. One of their main arguments is that the scanners will immediately delete  passengers' images once they go through the system. But this is not so at a federal court house in Florida!More >>

​Birthdays should be spent in happiness and celebration, and the news cycle did just that for our Nation's President today. Causation vs. correlation be damned! We lay all the day's good news in one blog post in honor of the 44th President's big day. Think of it as our version of a birthday card, Barry. More >>

​NY Tech MeetUp is a monthly event for the technology community in New York that allows emerging companies to demo their new ideas in front of a large audience of like-minded techies. It's a safe place for these tech geeks, but it's open to outsiders like us, too. We went last June as well, took July to recover, and came back full force last night to see what the best of "Silicon Alley" (get it?!) has to offer. Some things were awesome, some were just over our head -- but nonetheless, here's the latest! Broken down into layman's terms, of course. More >>

Trumped SoHo?

​Fifteen condominium buyers of the Trump Soho hotel have filed a lawsuit against the feather-haired millionaire for fraud. The disgruntled would-be residents of the $1.2 million (or more) condos claim they were misled into signing contracts through false statements of the project's financial health, believing the Trump SoHo had sold more units than they actually had. With less people to file noise complaints and better chances for a spare elliptical at the gym, what exactly are these rich people crying about?

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Doubt you'll be seeing these at a Shanghai bus stop.

​Josh Schwartz is taking Gossip Girl bi-continental and producing a Chinese version of the famous Upper East Side set series, the Post reports, made with Chinese actors and broadcast in China. It's hard for us Western folk here to understand exactly how the bourgie prep-school plot lines will translate in Mandarin, so we sourced two real Chinese people (one of them actually in China!) to make predictions on this forthcoming...hit..show. More >>