Past Articles

Nikki Finke writes with a sharpened pencil in the LA Weekly. She published this screed after Michael Kinsley got bumped out of the editorial page job at the LA Times in early August. “The Kinsley Experiment, which officially ended this week at the Los Angeles Times not with a bang […]

Tina Brown writes about a place I wish I could have been, Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative conference at the Sheraton Hotel in New York last week “Welcome to Planet Clinton, an interconnected world that’s a solar system and a wormhole away from Bush country. Here Shimon Peres and Oprah Winfrey […]

Foud Ajami writes in the Opinion Journal on the deafening silence from Arabs. “The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq is the silence with which it is greeted in other Arab lands. Grant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi his due: He has been skilled at exposing the pitilessness on the loose […]

Firemen wore SS uniforms, reported Ananova today on the Howie Carr website. “Two German firemen are in trouble after they tried on Nazi SS uniforms they found in an old farmhouse. The firefighters reportedly paraded up and down in the uniforms in front of a group of boy scouts. The […]

Daniel Terdiman writes on CNET today about Open Source magazine writing. “When Esquire magazine writer A.J. Jacobs decided to do an article about the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopedia Wikipedia, he took an innovative approach: He posted a crummy, error-laden draft of the story to the site. Wikipedia […]

New Media Report is usually full of interesting insider stuff about the web, it’s edited by Elizabeth G. Hines. This is from today’s emailed report. “The news: Google has been quietly gathering classified feeds. The question: Is there a Google classified service in the works? Classified Intelligence—a classified ad industry […]

“From certain angles, the tanned Yaz looks like Ted Williams in the old Sears fishing ads. Tanned and muscular, but much quieter,” writes the Boston Globe. “On these September fishing trips, in a place where the coast of Massachusetts is protected and timeless, where the geese outnumber the people, Yaz […]

Steve Szkotak just emailed me from Richmond VA with news that the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Amherst Bulletin have been sold to the Newspapers of New England, publishers of the Recorder, Concord Monitor, and other papers. I have a connection to the old Gazette, I worked at the paper from […]

Nathaniel Cosme, four months on the earth. 

Sacha Pfeiffer, (a helluva a name there) reports on law firm names in today’s Boston Globe. “A growing number of law firms nationwide are shrinking their lengthy rosters of stodgy-sounding surnames to names that are quicker, livelier, and help establish an identity. That means experimenting with unorthodox slashes and hyphens […]

Yesterday we got a call at the GoNOMAD offices from KAHL AM 1310, a talk station from San Antonio. They had found us after Googling ‘airline passenger rights’ where we come up numero Uno, and wanted our take on what to do if you’re bumped. Bumping had happened to a […]

The Chicago Tribune’s Charles M. Madigan has a scheme for any reporter who’s been bought out, phased out, laid off or fired. “My thought is that it’s all the same stuff presented in a collection of different packages. Who better to create the same stuff than the people who have […]

Mitt Romney is getting a lot of laughs with his anti-Massachusetts jokes on the stump as he tries to build momentum for a presidential run. The AP followed the Gov last week. “Instead of talking about his home state with the usual lip-quivering pride, Romney uses it like a vaudeville […]

Comments from readers after seeing Marissa Mayer’s photo in the post below. She looks like Scarlett Johansson. [dreaming]can’t you just see her in the opening scene?{/dreaming] She’s hot.Anon Good read, and yes, she’s a honey too 🙂 wobert I’ll fall in love with her in the middle of Dinner! Corey […]

Google Facts….a talk withMarissa Mayer, Product Manager for Google, from a standing-room only session last week at PARC in Palo Alto. “The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact […]

This was what some guy in California found on his motor after hearing a popping sound. He was late for work. Thanks Eric Jayne for this. 

Kristen Lombardi writes in the Village Voice about the excitement over tonight’s premier on TV, where a woman becomes President, in the new show with Gina Davis called “Commander in Chief.” The Voice cites a poll that states 39 percent of Dems would be in favor of Hillary being the […]

Interesting words from around the world from boingboing.net. Adam Jacot de Boinod wrote a book called The Meaning Of Tingo, “a collection of words and phrases from around the world.” Here are some of the words in the book (from a BBC article. katahara itai: the action of laughing so […]