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Found this on a blog called ‘lost nomad’ that is about Korea. “A ranking South Korean official taking part in a celebratory event in the North Korean capital Pyongyang generated strong criticism at home Thursday by singing a North Korean song that praises the communist state’s military. The main opposition […]

This morning’s NY Post included this information.“Eight months after hitting the $149 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot, and with his divorce settlement behind him, Juan Rodriguez, 50, is just starting to feel at ease on easy street. So the once-bankrupt parking attendant from Queens, who had 78 cents to his […]

Reuters reports that London’s congestion charge on vehicles entering the city centre rises by two thirds to eight pounds on Monday. The increase from the current five pounds is expected to raise up to 45 million pounds a year to reinvest in transport. But opposition parties say the move will […]

Reading all of my friends blogs today. Sony wrote about a museum in Guadalajara, Mexico, styled after the Guggenheim, speculating that it will take forever and a day to finally complete it. Then I turned to Kent St. John, who remarked about Quebec and graffito he had spotted at Medill […]

Amanda Griscom Little writes in today’s NY Times magazine about a huge ‘eco-mall’ being built in Syracuse, NY. Robert Congel, a commercial real-estate developer has a plan to ”change the world.” Convinced that it will ”produce more benefit for humanity than any one thing that private enterprise has ever done,” […]

Nicholas Kristoff writes in Today’s NY Times about a Green Success story, that Bush should read about and adopt for the country. “In 1993, Portland became the first local government in the United States to adopt a strategy to deal with climate change. The latest data, released a few weeks […]

Last night we drove out to Tanglewood and on that quiet sultry summer night picnicked on the manicured lawn, then enjoyed a concert in the shed. Tanglewood is like no other place, greener, cleaner, and that certain summer ingredient was there. It was the the stillness, the clarity, the company […]

Tantoos are a new rage down in Texas. Today’s Wall Street Journal included this information, beginning with a story of how some Team Texas traveling high school wrestlers, on the eve of a match with rival Oklahoma, created Texas-shaped white spots by covering their hips and entering a tanning booth. […]

This big one did not get away. Thai fishermen netted a 646-pound catfish believed to have been the world’s largest freshwater fish ever caught in Thailand, a researcher said Thursday. The AP reports: The nearly 9-foot-long Mekong giant catfish was landed May 1 by villagers in Chiang Khong, a remote […]

This found on Yahoo News. “Sandra Day O’Connor, retiring justice, played tennis and golf well, danced expertly with her husband, John, and made frequent appearances on the Washington party circuit. O’Connor was embarrassed in 1989 after conservative Republicans in Arizona used a letter she had sent to support their claim […]

This from today’s Cyberjournalist.net, a great site for the insider’s view of the web. “A story first broken on the Internet won a Pulitzer Prize this week — the first time this site believes this has ever happened. The Willamette Week’s Nigel Jaquiss won the Pulitzer Prize this week for […]

Flowers for Sale on Main Street in Nantucket. 

This from Web Pro News today…”Click fraud is the term used in the Internet search industry to describe the practice of clicking on search advertisements to run up the costs on advertisers. Companies buy an advertisement through Google’s AdWords program, whereby certain keywords are purchased in order to appear in […]

Tonight riding home on the Mass Pike, I listened to VB, filling in on the Howie Carr show. The topic was the recent story about Vladimir Putin. Meeting with Patriots owner Bob Kraft and Rupert Murdoch in Russia, Putin was handed Kraft’s new Superbowl ring, studded with hundreds of diamonds—and […]

Sitting in the front room of the Dolphin Guest House, thinking about driving in Nantucket. Like my esteemed peers before me, Russell Baker and David Halberstam both have both railed about the size of people’s vehicles on this little rock. Whether you believe that large SUV sales are down, bloated […]

Watching the F/X channel. One of the channels you have to pay more than $4.95 per month for, hence not in my line-up in Deerfield. But here in Nantucket, I got to view Dennis Leary’s surprise hit ‘Rescue Me.’ The show is well done, really good dialogue, and sharply defined […]

Michael Mayo writes with admiration about Jimmy Breslin, in the Sun Sentinel. He gave us all a good tongue-lashing Saturday, and a lot of people nodded their heads in agreement. He ripped newspapers for losing “their backbone and their nerve,” ripped writers for their timidity and boringness, ripped George W. […]

Last night on Nantucket I decided to head out of town. So I parked my bike and took a shuttle bus out to Madaket. Madaket doesn’t have much to it, a big boatyard, some fine homes, and a gorgeous harbor. But it does have the Westender, the bar where the […]