The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs

Esquire editor at large AJ Jacobs is starting a new advice column, he announced today in a blog post. But it is not just a regular old advice column. Instead of just getting advice from Mr. Jacobs, the column will include curated advice from his "100,000 Facebook Friends*" with whom he is sharing the byline.

"You will be getting the combined experience of a brigade of Ann Landerses, a stadium full of Dan Savages," Mr. Jacobs wrote. "As for me, I will be the Nate Silver of this experiment, curating and collating and commenting on the mass’s responses. I will print the best, funniest, and oddest answers (providing full credit, of course). And we will determine the best course together."

And Mr. Jacobs has lofty goals for his experiment in social networking.

"My hope is that it will be the greatest advance in Advice Column History since the Friedman sisters took on WASPy surnames, got syndicated and stopped talking to each other," wrote Mr. Jacobs.

And as the author of The Year of Living Biblically, a chronicle of his quest to spend a year following every biblical law, Mr. Jacobs should know from original Jewish names (and siblings who stop speaking to each other).

*Although Mr. Jacobs seems to have gotten "friends" confused with "followers" since technically Facebook has a 5,000 friend limit. Mr. Jacobs is followed by 117,358 people.

Been there, seen that. (Hustler)

As for the sex This Ain't Girls XXX:

“I tried to make it as weird as possible,” Calhoun told XBIZ. “I tried to say really weird things and do really weird positions.

“Well, not that weird,” he quickly added.

Haha, what does that even mean? No Cabbage Patch lunchbox sex? No "grey rape?" No dialogue that involves the phrase "You said I made you feel like your whole body was a clit?"

The actor praised writer/director Stuart Canterbury's script, which he said stays true to the tone of the original series, which he called "provocative" and "very well written."

Thousands of cicadas have been spotted in Staten Island over the last few days, sending residents into a Twitter frenzy. Dozens of photos, videos and tweets have been posted chronicling the invasion of the insects.

Brood II or the "East Coast Brood" returns every 17 years to mate and drive humans crazy with their incessant chirping. They are able to hatch when the earth is above 64degrees Fahrenheit and after this past weeks heat wave and humidity, it's no wonder the sightings are beginning.

While the invasion is expected to impact the entire East Coast, Staten Island is said to be hit hardest. John Cooley, a research scientist at the University of Connecticut, told the Wall Street Journal that if this year is anything like 1996, then Staten Island should expect to be overrun with bugs.

While most residents are strapping in, buying earplugs and trying to avoid the bugs, some are finding interesting uses for them. Apparently cicadas are high in protein and can add a nutty flavor to meals, making them suitable for eating and cooking. If this sounds appealing, there are plenty of recipes on how to turn the critters into dishes.

If not, sit tight and try to drown out the noise. Don't worry, this is something New Yorkers happen to be good at.

According to a new study by the civil liberties group, 400,000 innocent people, largely black and latino youths, were wrongfully stopped through the course of 2012 due to the NYPD's stop and frisk policy. This policy gives policeman the power to stop people on the street, only on suspicion of wrongdoing.

Unfortunately, these stops rarely turn up anything: eighty-nine percent of stops didn't result in a minor violation or summons, and only two percent of stops resulted in the discovery of an illegal weapon. When the police didn't find something, it was usually after they stopped a person of color (blacks accounted for 55 percent of innocent stops, latinos 32 percent).

Sometimes police did find something: marijuana. This is despite both Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly's efforts to reduce the amount of marijuana arrests, instead opting for court summons.

"Despite the welcome decline in the overall number of stops, the NYPD last year still subjected hundreds of thousands of innocent people to humiliating, intimidating and unjustified stop-and-frisk encounters,” Executive Director Donna Lieberman said in a statement.

She urged whoever takes the helm at City Hall to reevaluate the policy. "The city’s next mayor must make a clean break from the Bloomberg administration’s ineffective and abusive stop-and-frisk regime," she said.

There is some good news, however: The number of total stops dropped from 685,724 in 2011 to 582,911 in 2012.

“I’ve done a round of courtesy calls,” Mr. Weiner told Politicker during a telephone interview Wednesday–hours after formally launching his campaign for mayor.
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