Festivus Among Us
Last night we met a bunch of cool people at a Festivus Party in Easthampton, MA. Made popular by Seinfeld, this December 23 ritual has become popular and features a list of grievances, a single aluminum pole and an intergenerational wrestling match at its conclusion. Our host and hostess live […]
Traffic Control Mimes
From Boing Boing, a Directory of Wonderful Things, one of the best places in the world to check out at 4:45 am: Mayor of Bogota uses mimes for public behavior control This is brilliant. A March article from the March 2004 Harvard University Gazette has a great profile of mayor […]
He Won’t Actually Have Paris anymore…
Lloyd Groves writes in today’s NY Daily News that he’s done, absoutely, positively, shilling for Paris Hilton. He chronicles her shameless selfish self-absorbed life, shooting daggers like a paltry $12 tip on a $300 room service meal, and cutting to the front of a twisted and long ladie’s room line […]
CSS, CMS and other Mysteries
We visited with a few high tech companies this week, trying to get help with some of the mysteries of running a website. We would like to move to a Content Management System, so that we can put up our stories the way the big boys do. Newspaper and magazine […]
Coining New Words for the 00s
We found these words on the web, a derivitive no doubt of Wired Magazine’s monthly list of new terms found that more accurately describe life in 2004. 1. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles. 2. PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm and […]
New York Sunday Times & Howard Hughes
What a joy to once again relax with the fat and redolent New York Sunday Times. No other paper has writers with such style and class, no one can put their finger on the East Coast Pulse like the Sunday Styles section. One essay that stood out was by Katherine […]
Google Print
Reading in Web Pro News about the latest from Google, the publishing en masse of scholarly books to the web. It is turning the indexers into the content creators….let’s listen in. Although Google Print is in the pilot stage, the future looks promising. The possibilities of having these incredible libraries […]
Dazzling People and New Digs
We met with a dazzling young lady today, who impressed us with her poise, sophistication and earnest interest in what we do. We have long felt that GoNOMAD is a brand that people can understand and relate to, and that the potential is there to push and cultivate our brand […]
