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 […]

Worthington Bing with a Dogg.