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Sploid.com is a blog with tabloid headlines and a drudge-like look. The excerpt below is from a story from Yahoo about the new freedoms being enjoyed by formerly burka-clad women in Afghanistan. “Love Marriages” are becoming more common, though most are still arranged by parents for their kids. “Those who […]

Met Paul Shoul down at Spoleto’s in Northampton about six last night. Friday night crowd, Bob Paquette of WFCR News manning the bar. Next to Paul was Moira from Family Fun magazine, and Grace, who also works there. A bit after I got there up came David Sokol, hat pulled […]

Every morning I spend hours sifting through spam. So it made me feel great today to read this and see the mugshot of this Jason character, nailed for spam in VA. “Jaynes, 30, who was considered among the top 10 spammers in the world at the time of his arrest, […]

Eric Suher is a legend in Northampton, and this week got written up in Fortune Magazine. The piece dragged details I could have never learned in the five years I worked for him. He is a hard working successful entrepreneur, and has done great things for the city. “Suher may […]

Today’s Wall Street Journal teaches a new word…”Dendochronology.” That’s how you find out exactly how old your olde, olde house really is. A technician takes samples from your wood beams and counts and measures the rings to determine when the wood was harvested. Steve Nicklin bought a $750,000 old home […]

Broadband is marching along nicely. That is good because we feature so many photos and text on our website, GoNOMAD.com,. dialup connections take decades to load and people won’t wait politely…they’ll just leave. Here is a story from Travelmole.com, a good source of travel-related info that comes by email from […]

It could well be the cushiest title in all of journalism: no job description, nice office, good pay, and the resources of a rich corporation at your fingertips. You’re encouraged to write books and articles that tickle your fancy. The Washington Post’s Associate Editors have it made, writes Erik Wemple […]

A writer named Joshua Hartshorne submitted a new story to GoNOMAD. Here is a page from his blog. “Taipei is not as smoggy as some places (Beijing comes to mind), but it’s pretty nasty. I though St. Petersburg was bad, but there it’s more particulate matter floating in the air, […]

Reading Reading PA’s local newspaper, and found this entry, file under stupid people doing silly things. GREENSBURG, Ind. (AP) — A man who went to the sheriff’s department to bond out his brother-in-law also ended up in jail when police realized the money he handed them reeked of marijuana. Timothy […]

This month’s Wired featured a souped up hybrid Prius on the cover and included a report by Lisa Margonelli on China’s Next Cultural Revolution….in alternative fuels. “After food, oil is the most important issue for Chinese economic planners. Without an increasing supply of oil, high GDP growth will be impossible, […]

Reading Lancasteronline.com I came across this. It was a blog posted by a new resident. “Recently my wife and I moved from Lancaster to Delaware County (for university reasons) and we just wanted to comment on the puppy mill situation in Lancaster County. My wife worked for the Humane League […]

Al Gore is a guy some of us like to beat up on. The “inventing the internet” the stupid staged Kiss, Tipper….but he’s on to something pretty far reaching with a new TV network planned for an August 1 rollout. The SFGate.com website had the story. “Current, the network’s new […]

The new Google maps provide green and red markers, this shows how far I need to drive when I fly out to San Diego….De’Anza Springs is right on the border. 

This morning is clear, clean and Spring. Good day is on the way. 

Word is that a recent photo shoot with the ladies from Desperate Housewives got a little tense. This from AOL news… “It looked like all smiles during the shoot, but Vanity Fair’s Ned Zeman witnessed a real-life soap opera unfold between the ladies. He says the all-day shoot was filled […]

Scores of participants in the Minuteman Project began assembling late last week and clusters of volunteers began regular patrols Monday, in an exercise some law enforcement authorities and civil rights groups fear will result in vigilante violence. Many of the volunteers were recruited over the Internet, and some planned to […]

Poker on Mountain Road, Don Gibson looks happy seated next to GoNOMAD Web tech Stephen Hartshorne. 

Casa Fontanella, Le Marche Italy. This is either the perfect place to take my parents for a long-planned vacation in rural Italy, or the out in the sticks trap that I made the mistake of thinking would be a great place to take my parents for vacation.