Steve Szkotak just emailed me from Richmond VA with news that the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Amherst Bulletin have been sold to the Newspapers of New England, publishers of the Recorder, Concord Monitor, and other papers. I have a connection to the old Gazette, I worked at the paper from […]
Sacha Pfeiffer, (a helluva a name there) reports on law firm names in today’s Boston Globe. “A growing number of law firms nationwide are shrinking their lengthy rosters of stodgy-sounding surnames to names that are quicker, livelier, and help establish an identity. That means experimenting with unorthodox slashes and hyphens […]
Yesterday we got a call at the GoNOMAD offices from KAHL AM 1310, a talk station from San Antonio. They had found us after Googling ‘airline passenger rights’ where we come up numero Uno, and wanted our take on what to do if you’re bumped. Bumping had happened to a […]
The Chicago Tribune’s Charles M. Madigan has a scheme for any reporter who’s been bought out, phased out, laid off or fired. “My thought is that it’s all the same stuff presented in a collection of different packages. Who better to create the same stuff than the people who have […]
Mitt Romney is getting a lot of laughs with his anti-Massachusetts jokes on the stump as he tries to build momentum for a presidential run. The AP followed the Gov last week. “Instead of talking about his home state with the usual lip-quivering pride, Romney uses it like a vaudeville […]
Comments from readers after seeing Marissa Mayer’s photo in the post below. She looks like Scarlett Johansson. [dreaming]can’t you just see her in the opening scene?{/dreaming] She’s hot.Anon Good read, and yes, she’s a honey too 🙂 wobert I’ll fall in love with her in the middle of Dinner! Corey […]
Google Facts….a talk withMarissa Mayer, Product Manager for Google, from a standing-room only session last week at PARC in Palo Alto. “The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact […]
This was what some guy in California found on his motor after hearing a popping sound. He was late for work. Thanks Eric Jayne for this.
Kristen Lombardi writes in the Village Voice about the excitement over tonight’s premier on TV, where a woman becomes President, in the new show with Gina Davis called “Commander in Chief.” The Voice cites a poll that states 39 percent of Dems would be in favor of Hillary being the […]
Interesting words from around the world from boingboing.net. Adam Jacot de Boinod wrote a book called The Meaning Of Tingo, “a collection of words and phrases from around the world.” Here are some of the words in the book (from a BBC article. katahara itai: the action of laughing so […]
When I was eight, I decided that I wanted to change my name to Max. The reason was simple: I wanted to be like Agent Maxwell Smart, of the Get Smart TV Series in the late ’60s. My namesake passed away today, here are some memories of Don Adams, by […]