Showing posts with label mashable. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

As we come to the end of another summer, some of you locals might want to help us share your memories of Action Park

This morning on Mashable Johnny is reading/watching a magnificent piece on a northern New Jersey legend, Action Park. Johnny is learning that many of you might have enjoyed (or not) the dangerous fun to be had at this legendary bone breaker of a park. A water slide that had a loop-the-loop, rides that were built by people with no idea what gravity or momentum were about. Fifteen year-olds with Budweiser cans who ran the place and insurance on the park created by the owner via the Cayman Islands.

If you were one of the lucky ones who went to "Class Action Park" we'd love to hear your stories on this legendary American theme park.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Google brings free Wi-Fi to Chelsea

May we see your ID card? Very good and here's your password.

Google, who is locally HQ'd in Chelsea, is offering up some of that "goes down easy" read FREE high speed Wi-Fi to Chelsea dwellers. Jordan Newman, a Google spokesman, told Mashable that the new Wi-Fi network is Google's way of "giving back to the community that we've been in for the past six years or so."

Yes we know those first five were touch-and-go, the wolf is at the door, lean start up years on the westsiiiiide. We kid because we love and this here blog is supported by Google. But just where are the boundaries of this "sorry we don't deliver there" internet electronic dog fence?

The network runs between Gansevoort St. and 19 St. from 8th Ave to the West Side Highway and in area public spaces, including the Chelsea Triangle, 14th Street Park and Gansevoort Plaza.

The secured network will also be used by businesses, residents and students in the area, and it will cover the outdoor areas of the Fulton Houses, a housing project owned by the New York City Housing Authority.

Does this mean Google is getting ready to start bringing their Google Fiber (Sounds like a 50's horror monster -- "Look out maw, it's the dad-gummed Google Fiber!") broadband service to the free people of NYC? Well the answer friends is a click on that above link away. It may surprise you.