Alexandra Jacobs writes in today’s NY Time’s style section about how you deal with picky eaters when you’re planning a dinner party. “There’s something irredeemably rude about phoning in your dietary preferences to a social acquaintance, as if you’re about to embark on a trans-Atlantic flight rather than a convivial […]
Today’s NY Times includes this story about the people of Mendham, NJ, who have fought in vain to keep Verizon from putting up a cell tower to improve reception in the hilly rich-people’s burg. Despite dead spots, neighbors are against a new tower–except one man: “Ms. Wood’s neighbor, Sammy Barsa, […]
We woke up to a grey morning in Holyoke. Outside the picture window, the feeders were alive with avian activity. A giant piliated woodpecker knawed on the suet, so long and aggressive with a big beak chomping down the beef fat that hangs next to the seeds. Then a bit […]
Frank Rose is one of my favorite reporters, each month’s Wired usually has an informative, only-in-wired type of story. He writes about Samsung’s supercharged rise to the top of the consumer electronics world. “Even today, people talk about the “voluntary incineration” at Gumi. A drab factory town in south-central Korea. […]
Eric Sanderson has documented the changes in Manhattan’s physical landscape from 1609 to the present. Wired this month showed a map with black outlines around the green familiar shape of the island, the gap between is where fill has created new land for the wharves and piers. He also compared […]
The entrance to Milwaukee’s Art Museum, the wings are opened up during museum hours and they gracefully sweep down when it is closed.
Ed Ring writes in the ecoworld website about a California man who has come up with a big idea. EarthWorks Continues Crusade to take their Revolutionary Soil Treatment Worldwide Wouldn’t it be better to clean and reuse contaminated soil? What if toxins could be inexpensively removed from soil, on-site, instead […]
The local newspaper in Greensboro, N.C., is trying a new approach to help its readers feel more connected to the newsroom: The paper is asking readers to go out and write some articles themselves. At the Greensboro News & Record’s Web site, registered users can submit their own stories by […]
I took the most recent issue of The Atlantic to the gym today and finished reading David Foster Wallaces’ “Host”, a long and very detailed article about AM Talk Radio. Here he explains what faces someone who “thinks they can host a radio show.” “To appreciate these skills and some […]
The Wall Street Journal gleefully reports on the man who started the Blackberry revolution. Or, as some have said, “crackberry.” These little handhelds are becoming very popular among those who want to be truly connected. “Mr. Lazaridis, who was born in Turkey, emigrated with his family to Windsor, Ontario, where […]
We’re going to Croatia in early June, per invitation of Nena Komarica, the tourism manager in NYC. I have always wanted to see this place, since I’ve told so many writers in interviews that this is the hottest destination around. Our trip will be to many vowel-challenged places, like the […]
NY Times on the Today Show’s Woes… “Viewers – and most of them are women – like Ms. Couric’s cheeky, easygoing manner; affection grew into admiration after her husband died of colon cancer in 1998 and Ms. Couric made early detection her cause. (In 2000 she underwent a colonoscopy on […]