The above video is of people casually selling and taking whippets (nitrous oxide, or "hippie crack") on North 7th Street in Williamsburg. This is following a Widespread Panic show on Saturday night, unsurprisingly.

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The above is a photo Julia Allison tweeted today of the bags that she's taking to Burning Man, the crunchy outdoor sweat-festival in Nevada.

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​On September 17, Wall Street will be occupied. Not by warring/face-grabbing traders and not by troops sent in to put the volatile area under martial law, but by protesters who are going to "set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street." #OccupyWallStreet has been organized by Adbusters, the "culture jamming" collective, who refer to Wall Street as the "Gomorrah of America." (Where is America's Sodom?) There's a planning meeting tomorrow.

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We have oft wondered, where exactly did hipsters come from (and, more intriguing, how did "hipster," a word with 1940s jazz origins, become co-opted to indicate the generic bespectacled fedora-hat-wearing usually white people hogging the name in current society?). Thus, it is with some pleasure (minus the minor annoyance, like an inspect bite, gained from the fact that we are still talking about hipsters) that we viewed this video. Which was arguably created by hipsters. Still, it's amusing. We miss beatniks. But it's all just circle of life, right? Right. Hipsters are just...humans. [via Laughing Squid][@thisisjendoll]

​Chris Robbins, an art professor at SUNY Purchase, is expanding his extra-curricular activities into teaching illegal squatting for his so-called "hipster students." Yesterday he held a class, unaffiliated with the university, in SoHo (appropriately, in a shuttered Catholic school on Mott Street) in hopes of helping "at least one or two of the 20 attendees...find an unoccupied apartment or condo and unsafely and illegally move in -- without paying rent or taxes."

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​The Daily has an article (not that I can read the whole thing in my iPad-less state!) about irritating Berkeley, Calif. residents being irrationally afraid of radiation from the nuclear crisis in Japan. They are flocking to the area's health food vitamin apothecary-places to buy potassium iodide, which protects against thyroid cancer resulting from exposure to radioactive iodine. This, despite the fact that no elevated radiation levels have been detected in California. More >>