Windfarm Tours to Denmark
Although an offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound is still in the permitting process, a handful of islanders want to see one for themselves. And they’re willing to cross the Atlantic Ocean to do it. Six Nantucketers will leave for Denmark next Tuesday to take part in a trip sponsored […]
Creepy Evil Twins–And Tips on Avoiding them
Evil twins are wireless networks that pretend to offer trusty Wi-Fi connections to the Internet like those available at some coffee shop, hotels and conferences. On a laptop screen, an evil twin Wi-Fi hotspot can look identical to one of the tens of thousands of legitimate public networks that consumers […]
$34 Million Per Day in Losses–Hey, Let’s Celebrate
Airlines in the U.S. are losing $34 million per day. Losses for the year stand at about $3.1 billion, twice as big as last years. Yet the real horror is that the Wall Street Journal reports that several airline CEOs say this may actually be a peak in the economic […]
"The Red Baron" Spies on Scrapyards
Steel these days comes mostly from scrap metal. And many people are aware that scrap metal and waste paper are the two things we export the most to China. But one problem that was reported in Tuesday’s Wall St. Journal was that there is not a consistent and open system […]
Order Some Wine on Line
The Wall Street Journal reported this week on a major milestone Supreme Court decision, that will ripple through many other industries. They struck down limits in state laws barring direct sales of wine across state lines to consumers. “Wine is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to […]
Everybody’s Goin’ Somewhere Around Here
One of the best things about being in the travel business is traveling. We get many invitations from tourism boards and CVBs to send writers out to do stories. These trips are always well organized (well most of them anyway) and when you travel courtesy of the tourism board, you […]
Firemen Grab ‘Hose’, Flee Burning Building
Firemen in Donetsk, Ukraine fled in panic from a blazing building after one of them grabbed a hosepipe that turned out to be a 10-foot python. The firefighters had arrived to fight a blaze at a health club in, when one of them tripped over what he thought was a […]
Hit Four Times….but Nobody Cared
Mark Flanagan, of Glannant, Wales, was wandering drunk on a divided highway, after his brother’s stag party when he was run down–by four separate cars. None of the drivers stopped to help him. And none of them reported any of the accidents. At Flanagan’s inquest, a coroner called the quadruple […]
Hero and Princess Flare Their Nostrils
Last week in New York they had their first stagecoach accident in a century. Two horses, breaking loose from their stagecoach ran with nostrils flaring down 14th Street with the police in chase. Jennifer Fermino described it in the NY Post. “Hero and Princess sent pedestrians scurrying for their lives […]
Don’t Let that Book Touch the Ground–Or Else!
Newsweek’s story about a koran being flushed down the toilet at Guantanomo prison is turning into an epic case of damage control gone bad. Today’s NY times has a story about the background of the alleged incident. “Erik Saar, a co-author of the book “Inside the Wire” and an Arabic […]
Reading Blogs on TV
From today’s cyberjournalist.net, comes a funny report about the merging of the old and the new. You can go to this link and watch the clip on the TV show. “The Daily Show ran an entertaining segment last week on how TV broadcasts are increasing reading from blogs on air. […]
Back Room Blog Talk
The little button that I placed on the bottom of the blog has provided fascinating details about my readers here at Readuponit. The one that says “site meter,” There were about 204 of you who came and read the site yesterday, you stayed an average of 39 seconds. Some of […]
And Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite
An MSNBC.com horror story news article says bed bugs can live for months without food — patiently waiting for the next hapless hotel guest to arrive so they can feast on him. Even upscale hotels are not immune to litigation, and bug specialists say the pests can thrive even in […]
Shoes Make High Drama
Pelosi Shoe Drama Has Fairytale Ending At last, the searing drama of Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s missing pink shoe has come to an end. And what an end it was! Freshman Representative Dave Reichert (R-Washington) dropped to one knee during a press conference, flourished an elegant pink slingback and […]
Pay It Ain’t So
The web just cuts right to the chase. Paidcontent.org is the name of the site where I found this snippet about the New York Times’ new idea for fighting the neverending battle against revenue shrink, called TimesSelect, where you will have to pay to read their op-ed and some of […]
Airline Outsourcing–To Utah
Thomas Friedman’s new book, The World Is Flat, offers a treasure trove of blogfodder. Here he visits David Neeleman, the president of JetBlue Airlines, who talks about why he uses stay at home moms in Salt Lake City Utah to make all of his reservations. “He calls it ‘homesourcing.’ JetBlue […]