They say celebrity deaths come in threes, Billy Mays threw in THE FOURTH ONE FREE!!!

RIP Billy

This is real, the guy has done this many times. He is one crazy Kiwi!

This is satire at its finest, have a lush green planet with a self sustaining ecosystem? Then you need humans! In just a few short years we will destroy and poison it for you.

The Nerd’s oldest fan is coming to visit New York City with her 12 year old son, so she reached out to see if I have any must see attractions. You came to the right place Amy! And everyone please feel free to add to this in the comments below.

Be prepared to walk a lot. This is a walking city like none other. Make sure you all have comfortable sneakers.

If you have a laptop computer definitely bring it with you because your hotel will most likely have wifi, if it doesn’t then a cafe will, and you will want to get online while you’re here. If not, you’ll have to do it more of the old fashioned way, I suppose we have internet cafes here where they supply the computer but they’re few and far between.

Get lost in Central Park, don’t even worry about where you’re going, your son will have a ball exploring the most incredible park in the world.

Use Menupages.com to find the local good food near where you’ll be as you travel around the city, if you have plans made in advance for the day.

Neighborhoods that you’ll want to make sure you tour are Greenwich Village, The East Village, SoHo, Little Italy, China Town, Union Square, South Street Seaport, Wall Street, 5th Avenue in the 50’s & 60’s (FAO Schwartz toy store), Times Square (see a show)

Museum of Natural History, & Museum of Modern Art

As for Pizza, you should go to Lombardi’s, John’s of Bleeker St., Joe’s Pizza in Greenwich Village at 7 Carmine St., but anywhere you go expect the slice to be very good.

Eat bagels, lots and lots of bagels, we have the best bagels in the world.

You could take the ferry to Staten Island, then just turn around and take the ferry back. There’s nothing to see on Staten Island but the ferry ride through the Harbor is fabulous.

Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and then eat at Grimaldi’s Pizza under the bridge on the Brooklyn side. It’s some of the best pizza in the world.

Go to the top of a tall building whether it be Empire State Building or Top Of The Rock, but go at an off peak hour when it’s not super crowded, the line could get crazy especially at the Empire State Building.

Anyone feel free to jump in with more suggestions!

dSLR cameras are one of the hottest items in the market today. They’re getting extremely good at the entry level and now at a $500 price point more attractive than ever. I do a lot of research on stuff like this when I’m interested in buying, and I’ve been thinking about getting into this for about a year. During that time Nikon, Canon, & Pentax have been paying a ton of attention to the entry level dSLR.

These cameras are now made as lightweight and simple to operate as possible. They are as automatic as your point and shoot pocket camera, but offer the opportunity to endeavor the steep learning curve of photography proper, with manual settings and advanced editing.

Expect a fair amount of action in this new category, Photography, nynerd.com/photography as I expect to get the bug and spend a lot of time shooting here this summer.

On June 5th, 1989, 20 years ago today, a man stood in front of an advancing column of advancing tanks in Tianamen Square, the previous day China had slaughtered thousands of students. Tank Man or the Unknown Rebel, as he’s come to be known, has serious gumption, and is a hero in the truest sense of the word.

Our friends at VBS.tv have a new adventure to share. These guys never cease to amaze, this time going on a journey deep into the Amazon in search of the hallucinogenic sapo frog! Check it out:

Hey Nerdo!

For your editorial eyeballs – an new online short doc from VBS.TV we just did called The Sapo Diaries. It is part travel, part anthropology, part journalism, all drugs, lots of mosquitos, and a dash of morbidly named creatures like the “Penis” fish. Yes, Vice goes down the Amazon in search of the psychedelic Sapo frog. This is the story that comes from trying to take one of the world’s most elusive drug experience.

What follows below is not your standard copy, I admit it’s long. But we can’t tell the story with out being descriptive. The viewer has to invest in the time in order to meander along with us down this tale.

If you don’t want the spoiler below you can dive in here for the The Sapo Diaries on VBS.TV & don’t forget the bug repellant .

I’ll let our guide Hamilton Morris pick it up from here:

There is an Amazonian frog called Phyllomedusa Bicolor or the Sapo which I have been reading about for years. It is totally different from the psychedelic toads found in North America. The Sapo’s venom produces an effect much closer to morphine than LSD, but really it’s not like either of those things. It’s a distinctly vomitous dissociative experience unlike anything else I’ve ever encountered.

I had to find out what this frog really does, but supposedly it cannot produce its venom in captivity. The only way to experience its unique trip is to travel down the Amazon River and catch one yourself, which is exactly what I did. – Hamilton

Aside from watching Hamilton on VBS.TV, you can also read Hamilton’s Sapo Diaries in their entirety in the Vice Brazil Issue.

Thanks for watching, let me know if you have any questions. Below is a snapshot from the trip of our guide Hamilton.

Rory
VBS.tv

My 3 year old daughter and I were just searching animal videos on Youtube, and she said let’s see a fish swimming in a bathtub. First result, Christmas tradition in Poland where you eat a live carp on Christmas Eve.