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“A time-lapse production on New Year’s Eve never seen before. Due to all the security concerns on the big day, the NYPD had stationed snipers at certain hotel locations not disclosed. We were granted rooftop permission by two hotels, the Times Square Alliance, and the NYPD to shoot this amazing piece.”

Where were you at midnight on NYE?

Seattle’s Fox affiliate reports: Police are searching for an attempted arsonist who allegedly poured gasoline on a carpeted stairway leading to the second level of Neighbours Nightclub and trying to set it on fire. Seattle police said an attempted arsonist poured the gas in the stairway just after midnight New Year’s Day. The arsonist lit the gas and left, police …

Right wing sites this morning are wailing about Anderson Cooper, Kathy Griffin, and Miley Cyrus. “Obama’s Marxist networks are pandering to obscenity and perversion! It’s no longer safe to let the kiddies stay up to watch the ball drop!” Meanwhile on Fox News…

Details.

Got any resolutions?

The Associated Press reports: The countdown to the new year in Times Square is getting some high-profile help — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The organizers of the annual celebration announced Sunday that Sotomayor will lead the final 60-second countdown and push the ceremonial button to signal the descent of the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball. Sotomayor was …

Taipei was especially impressive.

This might cause you to have a seizure. (Via Andrew Belonsky)

Who’s working today? What’s the plan for tonight?

Steve Hayes writes: On New Year’s Eve, the world turns upside down for the star studded cast of Irwin Allen’s classic disaster film “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972). Gene Hackman leads an all-star cast in this adventure film based on a novel by Paul Gallico and directed by Ronald Neame. Oscar winners Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Jack Albertson and Shelly Winters …

Yet another eventful year has come and gone for this here website thingy. In 2011 we saw over 20 million pageviews on over 10,000 posts on which you crazy kids left over 1.2 million comments. Each of those figures are up about 25% on last year, so…go US! As I mentioned in this post last year, blogging is like a …

Well, it was quite eventful year for this here website thingy. We saw over 15 million hits on just under 8000 posts where all you crazy kids left about one million comments. As a friend of mine likes to say, blogging is like a homework assignment that’s never done but always due. But somehow after almost seven years of JMG, …