By Drew Grant 11/08/12 2:45pm

Nate silver

Nate Silver and David Blaine, birds of a feather

Viral Marketing Genius Nate Silver: The David Blaine of Political Science

Nate Silver, we are so onto you. On election night, the rest of the world was riveted by your New York Times Five ThirtyEight blog–which received 20 percent of the website’s traffic! With the rest going to an article about people worried about post-Sandy weight gain!–and you became a genius twice over by predicting the voting breakdown of all the states. Now you are our MATH GOD, who used statistical magic to re-elect Barack Obama.

Except we know what this was all about. You were just using the election as a viral marketing scheme to promote your new book, in which you explained how your dark arts were actually just science that anyone could do. (But not really, and only if they read your book.) Your honor, I present the following evidence to the court … Read More

By Keeno Ahmed 6/19/06 12:00am

World Cup Was My Aphrodisiac, But I Didn’t Score

Most women in New York, whether they want to admit it or not, know that dating here revolves around fantasy: the fantasy that the underwear model you’re eyeing across the room might possibly know who Heidegger is, or that the promising surgical resident you’ve been dating for two months won’t max out his Visa after Read More

By Staff 5/15/06 4:23pm

I Retract Another Cheap Shot

Oy. Did I really write that The Times’ Dan Barry was blaming David Blaine for murders in the outer boroughs? Unh, yes. Barry responded to that and my criticism of the Times coverage of David Blaine:

first, the times wrote a long sunday piece on may 7th about blaine and did
a television Read More