Land of No Evenings
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 […]
Batting Around the Tennis Ball
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 […]
Life Caching: It’s Catching On
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 […]
Washington Post– Get Rid of ‘That Hulking Thing’
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 […]
Up a River in Congo
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 […]
Beaten with a Blackberry? Say it Ain’t So!
Today’s NY Post, (the best newspaper website around, and it has everything that the paper has) reports on a savage attack by Naomi Campbell on her assistant while traveling in Rio. “Fiery supermodel Naomi Campbell has allegedly attacked another one of her assistants — beating her with a BlackBerry and […]
Reading Between Really Simple Lines
Real Simple, despite its grammatically flawed moniker, is a hefty and well crafted magazine. It is one of the biggest success stories in publishing, right up there with O, Oprah’s category killer mag. I picked up an old issue while I was the gym and found a guide to “Reading […]
841 Pounds of Moon Rock
There are almost 842 pounds of moon rock on earth. Most of it was gathered during the Apollo missions, and about 841 of these pounds are under US Government control. The tiny balance, writes Christopher S. Stewart in the April issue of Wired, might be available from “RS” which stands […]