The DOT's new haiku safety program.

​Have you seen the Department of Transportation's latest effort to keep people safe on our streets? It involves little signs with little safety messages placed in "high-crash locations" where...perhaps...people should not be stopping to read? According to NBC NY, "Half of the signs will be hung in pairs, with the image and haiku text appearing. Others will be equipped with technology to allow New Yorkers to access the safety message via smartphone."

Safety tip: Put down your smartphone while in the street. No, not actually IN the street...

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​We like technology. (I mean, come on, we're bloggers, of course we like technology.) But sometimes technology makes us a little bit sad. Sad the way Shakespeare would write sad instead of the way people would Tweet sad. With tears instead of emoticons. In more than 140 characters.

Fine, call us old-fashioned. The lady doth protest too much, yeah, yeah. We've heard it all. Frankly, none of it lessens our inner conflict related to the Royal Shakespeare Company's new production, "Such Tweet Sorrow," in which a cast of trained actors improvise Romeo and Juliet in real-time through a series of Tweets.

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​Tiger Woods' sexxxy text messages have made their way to the Internet this morning en masse, courtesy of Joslyn James, one of the various women the golfer's had flings with over the last few years. Her website, sextingjoslynjames.com, is currently overloaded with people who want to see what kind of sexxxy talk Tiger Woods had for the porn star (real name, unbelievably: Veronica Siwik-Daniels) over the course of their relationship.

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