From the NY Times Book review came this quote from a review by Henry Alford of John Hodgeman’s “The Areas of My Expertise.” “Many people know the Oscar Wilde lament, ‘it is a sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information,’ but how many people are actually DOING […]
Peter Guralnick was interviewed on Fresh Air recently, he wrote a book about Sam Cooke called Dream Boogie. The most interesting item I recall was his tale of how this music legend met his untimely demise. He said that Cooke for most of his life preferred the company of hookers […]
Last night we watched “Inside Edition,” and among their breathless revelations were details on how the pirates were repelled last week from the Seabourne Spirit Cruise ship sailing off Somolia’s coast. A large, round device called an LRAD is mounted on the ship’s upper deck. This machine emits a highly […]
Bloomberg reports on what happened after the wall fell in Germany. “Today, on the 16th anniversary of the fall of the wall, not much is left standing. Finding the remnants requires patience and persistence — or the help of an expert like Gunar Jaekel, who organizes bicycle tours along the […]
The NY Times included a piece with a photo of a farmer on a road almost covered with corn cobs drying in the sun. “But Dai Shumin has learned that it is not. Ms. Dai, 54, is the grande dame of Xia Xin Pu, a tiny village being squeezed by […]
Pixels for Sale: David Pogue writes in the NY Times about a man who sells pixels on his webpage “Dang, dang, dang! Either this is a hoax, or it’s the most brilliant idea anyone’s ever had on the Internet, and I’m furious I didn’t think of it first: the Million […]
Elise Rana is the Travel editor of TNT magazine in London. I was traveling with her and the day I decided to sleep in, she got up early. “At dawn, I left the cosy cabin and crackling log stove at Patricio’s lodge on the edge of Queulat National Park, in […]
Snoop doggy Dogg’s younger brother is named Bing Worthington. He was in Boston yesterday, promoting the rap star’s latest offering, Snoop Dogg hot dogs.Together, Chris Faraone writes in the Herald, their endeavors include Snoop Dogg Clothing, Cadillac Snoop DeVilles, Snoop Dogg skateboards and now, foot-long frankfurters “Worthington earned the right […]
Wireless, or Wifi, is hot these days. But rare is the person who actually understands anything about how this stuff works. Below is a chunk of text from a wireless manufacturer’s website about how Wifi signals travel. I’m trying to learn all this for my future plans… “A radio wave […]
Myspace.com was recently acquired by Rupert Murdoch for about $560 million. Wired ran a story about the site’s founders, that explained in part why this type of community, networking website is now the hottest site on the web. Myspace gets more page views than Google–’nuff said. Jeff Howe wrote a […]
Two Chinese men have been arrested after trying to sneak across the border into Russia on a lawnmower. Ananova had the story. They tried to tell border guards at the Slavyanka border post in Khasansky County in Russia’s Far East that they had got lost while cutting the grass. Russian […]
