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Troy McMullen writes in the Wall Street Journal today about the fade of the celebrity ranch, that’s put a whole slew of these large properties on the market. “A decade or so after big names in entertainment, sports and business turned the rugged ranch into a real-estate fashion statement, many […]

I have an RSS feed reader on my desktop. Does anyone else use these things? They give me a chance to catch up on columns I enjoy, here is snip from a NY Times Style section piece from September. “Pricey, supersize baby strollers like the Bugaboo and the Silver Cross […]

Frank Rich wields a lot of power as th NY Time’s Restaurant critic. A few months ago, he decided to slum it by working as a waiter in Cambridge for a week. He got a taste of the life, from the other side of the table, as he wrote in […]

In the early months of 2004, a lone convoy of Toyota pickup trucks and SUVs raced eastward across the southern extremities of the Sahara. Raffi Khatchadourianwrote a long piece for the Village Voice this week. “The convoy, led by a wanted Islamic militant named Ammari Saifi, had just slipped from […]

Ask yourself: Would you commit to a physically taxing, seven-nights-a-week, deadline-pressure job that offers relatively low pay, little praise and a daily potential to mess up? Bob Richter of My San Antonio.com writes: A great newspaper is nothing if it’s not delivered properly. Circulation’s role begins and ends with carriers, […]

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke…totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough. Thank God […]

I’m speaking at the Adventure Expo in Washington DC on February 10th. I’ll keep trying to spread our GoNOMAD Gospel. Below is the promotional text that I hope I can live up to: How to Improve Your Google Rankings and Get More Business from Your Travel Website This presentation will […]

The candidate’s name is Jamal Abu Roub, but everyone here calls him Hitler because, well, that is the name he has answered to quite comfortably since he was a teenager. The Int’l Herald Tribune had the story. Roub, 40, is a leader of the militant Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades in […]

Amrit Hallan writes a blog in India called Writers Cave “Cell phones are gradually becoming an integral part of generic human form these days. You rarely see people without a cell phone. Whether they are in parks, restaurants, bus stands, hospitals, offices, residential complexes, you see people holding cell phones […]

These pandas were donated by Thailand to China, and are four and five years old.

In “This Film Is Not Yet Rated,” director Kirby Dick uses private investigators to unmask the identities of members of the Certification and Rating Administration. These are the people who rate the movies. The film presents side-by-side scene comparisons that Kirby contends show how the board’s decisions favor studio releases […]

Last night we joined other members of Circolo Italiano for a lecture from a Smith College geologist. The topic was wine and geology, and Prof. Larry Meinert showed slides that convinced me that how good the wine is directly corresponds with what’s below the ground. During the Ice Age, a […]

Stephanie Barry wrote in today’s Republican about Francis G. Keough III’s vacation home in Charlestown, R.I.. Barring a legal turnaround, Keough’s $700,000 home at 59 Oyster Drive has been drained of value. Neighbors successfully sued him for using their private access road as a driveway. A Rhode Island Superior Court […]

I spent time late tonight poring over Craig’s list, and was intrigued by this amalgamation of people’s points of view. Particularly noteworthy was the “Best Of Rants and Raves section,” where in the true folksonomie tradition, readers voted for their favorite rants. One woman got right to the point. She […]

From John Battelle’s Search blog tonight. “Amazon.com Inc. plans to broadcast on its Web site an original show hosted by Bill Maher and featuring performers and authors touting new releases — which, not coincidentally, will be for sale at the online retailer. The 12-episode Webcast series, which will begin airing […]

I heard a sorry story over breakfast with Cindy. A work friend of hers came into the office with blue stitches on his bald head. He explained. “I took my son to see the Boston Bruins. We had really great seats, right up front, front and center. During the first […]

Designers know how to make things look right. I decided that I needed one as we moved forward on creating the inside look of the new GoNOMAD Cafe. I found a woman with a good eye and an understanding of what we’re doing here in Jill MacFarlane. She has done […]

I read somewhere that there are more than 22 million blogs created every year. Wow! But in my world, there are only about five or six that catch my attention and merit a daily spin. One of them is K, a stranger who lives in the midwest. K’s blog is […]