The New York Times reports today that people who can't stop themselves from texting or talking on the phone while driving (which, as The Ethicist scolds in the Magazine, is bad even hands-free) are installing systems that monitor how fast their cars are going and block all cellphone signals if the car is in motion. There's even a workaround for passengers. Hooray for everyone who doesn't want to die an early death! Now we just have to find a way to make it standard in all cars like seatbelts.
High-Tech Babysitters Get Drivers Off Phone [NYT]

The cops tore open the heart of a massive hipster cocaine ring in Williamsburg this week, turning up $800,000 and eighteen kilos of cocaine from a building on North Seventh Street between Wythe and Berry Streets. (That's off the Bedford stop, people.) The group of dealers worked out of an apartment over the former site of Laila Lounge. Three suspects — Ronald Lugo, 44, Christina Ladeveze, 48, and Johanny Olmedo, 51 — have been accused by cops of heading up the drug ring. Being older, they struck their artistic young neighbors as "weird." Cops eventually raided the place and discovered the incredible stash of drugs (worth an estimated $3 million) and money hidden under the seat of a portable sauna in the apartment. The ring, cops say, extended to all boroughs of New York City.

Here's our takeaway: There's such a thing as a portable sauna??? That is the greatest thing we've ever heard. If only we could afford something like that! We're clearly in the wrong business.

Huge bust at hipster drug den [Brooklyn Paper]

Guest of a Guest obtained pictures of socialite, soon-to-be reality star, and recent divorcée Tinsley Mortimer in an intimate moment with Rock of Ages star and American Idol runner-up Constantine Maroulis. Guest of a Guest infers that Tinsley has dumped her boyfriend the Price-Chopper Prince. After all, the tipster who sent the pictures did say "This girl is changing! She hiding out from Park Ave, left the Prince sitting alone on his thrown [sic] and went undercover to meet an American Idol. This was a legit date. They are really cute together." So we can understand why one would think it was real! But when we saw these pictures, we had six simultaneous reactions:

1. Everything about this is fake. Clues include the amount of makeup Tinsley is wearing to a cheesy Broadway jukebox musical, the fact that no else one is around at this intimate moment, yet someone took a cell-phone pic from maybe six feet away, and the fact that, well, Constantine Maroulis.

As expected, layoffs came down yesterday at Business Week, and the numbers were huge. Bloomberg's Norm Pearlstine, who will soon assume his role of chairman at the magazine, cut 130 staffers — or roughly a third of the entire workforce. It was assumed that when the title was bought by Bloomberg there would be changes, but it looks like the cuts mean that the newswire giant plans to entirely change the character of the title, too. According to Keith Kelly, 60 to 70 percent of editorial staffers are on the way out, including columnists closely associated with the brand, like media writer Jon Fine, Wall Street reporter Gene Marcial, tech writers Steve Wildstrom and Steve Baker, and "Business Outlook" columnist Jim Cooper. Kelly has an extensive list of the other top writers who were ousted. Chunks of the online department were also eliminated. Rebuilding a brand to such a great extent puts a lot of pressure on 37-year-old Josh Tyrangiel, whom Pearlstine stole away from Time last week. Taking over a business brand when you don't have a lot of financial-reporting experience is one thing. Doing it without the brand's best writers and columnists is entirely different.

Daily Beast bites exec [NYP]