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 […]
\ We just put up a new story about our trip to Le Marche on GoNOMAD.com. It was a wonderful time, we learned a lot and enjoyed the most beautiful surroundings and savory food we could imagine.
A Hollywood producer has been charged after allegedly taking $5.5m (£3.3m) from investors for a TV drama he said was backed by US President George Bush. The US attorney’s office alleges Joseph Medawar, 43, collected money from investors for two years but spent the majority of it on himself. It […]
Charles McGrath writes in the NY Times today about an automotive icon. “With the possible exception of Lee Iacocca, John DeLorean was the most colorful car man ever to emerge from corporate Detroit, and though no one knew it then, he was also the beginning of the end of carmaking […]
I visited my doctor recently and he told me the results of tests that I had done about a year ago. Inexplicably, I had not gotten the message to come in for a follow-up, so this year-old news was news to me. He said that my liver was stressed out […]
National Journal’s William Powers skewers Dow Jones’ newest edition…their much touted Weekend Journal. “Deep breath, and here goes: I love The Wall Street Journal. Love the archaic text-heavy look; the little hand-done portraits of story subjects (“hedcuts,” to the trade); the What’s News column; the formulaic yet delightful front-page features […]