Normally a company like Curbed.com, especially one that refused to dish some hard facts about its business, would get zero time from The Great Grey Lady, let alone a 500-word article. But of course, we live in an age of Web 2.0 hysteria and hyperbole.

1,500 metrical tonnes of mussels, delicate shellfishes indispensable for a good fish stew or a dish of "Spaghetti allo Scoglio" have been stolen from their rightful owners, the mollusk-growers of La Spezia's Gulf. The culprits, while well known, cannot be fined or prosecuted.This since they are...

Gonzalez y Gonzalez (625 Broadway, NYC) is the tropical rococo home to the longest bar in NYC. I can vouch for the bright eye candy, but without my tape measure I cannot confirm the size boasting. The food is your standard South of the Border fare and - at least for tonight - the margaritas were only $5.00. I'm not sure if this is normal.

With E3 dishing out preview after preview, Lionhead studios Peter Molyneux spoke about the sequel to the short but innovative game known as Fable. Fable 2 takes place in a now 500 year old town of Bowerstone. Peter also stated that the age of heroes is long over, and the town has now taken on a darker feel. Muskets, trench coats, and swords are...

Before you are tempted to buy that new high-definition plasma television, before you sign up for a 500-channel satellite dish, before you allow a TV set in your child's bedroom, consider this: Your television viewing may be slowly killing you.

The following was copied from Talk:Monty Hall problem Mintguy (T) 09:45, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)I was talking to a friend about the Monty Hall problem today and he told me about a similar problem, and I don't think there is a Wikipedia article on it and I'm not sure how to present the solution either, but anyway here is the problem:You are on a gameshow and the host holds out two envelopes for you to choose from A and B. So you choose an envelope (A) and it's got $2000 in it. The presenter then says that one of the envelopes has twice as much money in it as the other one and offers you the chance to switch. So you think about it this way... "If I switch I will go home with either $4000 or $1000, by not switching I will go home with $2000. There is a 50/50 chance that I will double my money by switching. A normal 50/50 bet results in me either doubling my money or losing it all, whereas here I will only lose half. Therefore this is a better than evens bet so I will make the swap." You are just about to swap envelopes when you think about the problem some more - "Surely this can't be right... ". Mintguy (T) 16:13, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC) Let's pause to list assumptions. My choice of an envelope is not correlated with the loading of the envelopes, so that I'm equally likely to have the good or the bad envelope. The host also is statistically unbiased: his telling me the news is not correeated with my initial choice of good or bad envelope. Oh, and he's telling the truth.This is not to say that the expectation argument is right. This is the paradoxical part: that the argument has no apparent flaw in itself, but it gives the nonsensical result that one should choose and then change, even though no new information has come along to cause a change. The host's information is new, or seems to be, but how would my course of action be different if I had known it all along? Bottom line: the expectation argument leads to a silly result, but I don't believe that its flaw has been shown. Maybe this paradox deserves its own article. Dandrake 19:35, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)I think I'm not understanding this problem correctly. The way I read it, you either pick an envelope with X or 2X dollars in it with equal probability. Given the option to switch, this expands into four casesDoesn't this mean that each of these events occurs with equal probablity, and that it doesn't matter? I understand the expectation argument, but I can't reconcile it with this simple grid. Cvaneg 23:13, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)