Tag: LAW AND ORDER

A New York City Apple Store employee claims she was choked by 'Law & Order' star Richard Belzer. According to the New York Post, police were called to the Upper West Side store because Milan Agnew, 21, alleged that Belzer lunged at her, grabbed her neck, shouted "I need help!" and choked her. But after talking with witnesses and watching the surveillance video, New York City police determined ...

A great mystery recently surfaced on YouTube, and like any great mystery, it involves murder (as imagined by a TV show anyway), intrigue, and dogs. Yes, dogs. Earlier this week, the folks at Boing Boing found a funny video of a dog howling every time its owner played the 'Law and Order' theme song (you know, "BUM BUM..."). A quick search revealed the howling pup wasn't an isolated phenomenon. ...

A recent Wired.com story reports that the FBI has been using a proprietary spyware program to snoop on alleged ne'er-do-wells since at least 2004. According to heavily redacted documents that Wired obtained by invoking the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI has developed a sophisticated program it calls 'computer and Internet protocol address verifier,' or CIPAV, that can infiltrate target ...

Online virtual worlds are taking over. It would seem as though World of Warcraft and Second Life are cultish phenomena inhabited primarily by the uber-dorky, but if mainstream television is an indicator, things are changing. Recently, 'South Park' aired an episode in which much of the animation was modified in-game footage from World of Warcraft, while 'The Simpsons' parodied the virtual world ...