Poker on Mountain Road, Don Gibson looks happy seated next to GoNOMAD Web tech Stephen Hartshorne. 

Casa Fontanella, Le Marche Italy. This is either the perfect place to take my parents for a long-planned vacation in rural Italy, or the out in the sticks trap that I made the mistake of thinking would be a great place to take my parents for vacation. 

Drudge includes this snippet in today’s report. A Burmese woman is breastfeeding two tiger cubs at a zoo in Rangoon after they were removed from their aggressive mother. Hla Htay, 40, who has three children, the youngest seven months old, offered her services after the Bengal tiger cubs’ mother, Noah […]

I had my first podcast user experience tonight. Listened to a wise Stephan Stevens, who is from Wisconsin, but now lives in New Zealand. He is a self confessed RSS fanatic, saying that this platform will revolutionize the world of the net as we know it. I am also high […]

The last time we spoke with Rudy Maxa, he was in a terrific hurry. It had something to do with pipes, leaking urgent pipes, and he was not able to stay. We reached him today, and told him about how we had seen his visage on dozens of similtaneous screens […]

Today’s NY Times Styles section offers a preview of a new book called by the provocative title, “The Hooking Up Handbook,” that details what young stylish women in their 20s think about dating and sex in the 00s. Alex Williams interviewed a pack of women wearing low slung $200 jeans […]

This question is floating all over the world, now that the Pope has passed. I heard a radio interview with a man speaking about how when he had an audience with The Big Guy, it consisted of him repeating back everything he said, with a “god bless” after it. Not […]

On the equator, there is no evening. Reading more of Jeffrey Tayler’s Facing the Congo, I learned that in these stiffling, mosquito-filled areas, night just shuts down. There is no drifting, no slow descent to darkness. The lights virtually go off at 6 pm. The book chronicles the passage down […]

This morning we head over to Ludlow to hit tennis balls inside a huge green dome. It is a round robin affair, we get there and are given a list showing who we are playing against for 45 minutes of doubles. Then we switch and play a different pair. I […]

Daniel Fallon writes about a new trend that is about to get BIG. It comes from Nokia, the ingenius Fins who have done so much for the cellphone handset. “Nokia is tapping into an emerging trend that could potentially change the way we record, and ultimately remember, our lives. The […]

Poynter.org has a wonderful selection of articles about the media. Among them was this story from the American Journalism Review about a Washington Post focus group, where they gathered five new residents of DC and asked them if they’d subscribe to the paper. “In one session after another, I don’t […]

I ordered some books about Africa from Amazon and am deep into Jeffrey Tayler’s new book ‘Facing the Congo.’ In the book a mild-mannered American who is living in Russia gets the urge to go deep into Africa…he boards a barge and goes up the Congo River to the remote […]