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Love it when the newspapers get fooled, probably by a blogger yet. From today’s Washington Post Styles section, courtesy of poynter.org, which is a great media insider site, if you like news about media… Correction A Feb. 5 Names & Faces item on an Evite to Michael Saylor’s birthday party […]

Scene that I was photographing at the Fort Lauderdale airport when a police officer came up and told me I might be in trouble…so he ran a check and found I wasn’t on the terrorist watch list. 

Thomas Friedman is back with his regular column in the NY Times and puts forth this smart idea about the huge rewards being now DOUBLED for the capture of Bin Laden and al Zarqawi. He thinks there are much better ways to spend the money: What I would do with […]

Today’s Miami Herald served up this gem. A Fort Lauderdale fisherman put his wedding ring around the bill of a sailfish that he caught off the Florida coast in 2002. And now he said he caught that same fish, complete with the ring around the bill! But everyone doesn’t believe […]

Visiting my daughter in Miami this weekend brought an opportunity to read the wonderful Miami Herald. This Knight Ridder stalwart is always full of interesting and well thoughtout reads. One front page story detailed how Social Security might not be in as bad shape as the Prez thinks. GWB’s figures, […]

The Army is experimenting with a new form of anethesiology, using nerve blocks to keep pain signals from traveling to the brain, thus eliminating the need to provide mind numbing morphine in the operating room. Procedures can take place with the patients fully awake. This from the latest issue of […]

There is a new way to outsource, use young rich Europeans who are on vacation, to fill the ranks of headset wearing telemarketers. With hundreds of employees yakking into headsets, Tecnovate’s New Delhi office looks like a typical Indian call center, except for one thing: Nearly 100 of these workers […]

A man in Salinas, California named John Cerney creates his own genre of billboard-sized art in fields throughout the Imperial Valley. He doesn’t like to display his creations, gigantic realistic photographs mounted on plywood, indoors. He would say no to even the inside of cavernous MassMOCA, in North Adams. No, […]

Don’t you hate these? This just about sums it all up, doesn’t it? 

My house in the snow in January, 2005, in South Deerfield, MA.  

Last night on PBS Fidel Castro was in the spotlight. Footage included Castro’s embracing of the Soviet Union, the bearded one leaning over a conference table to light Breznev’s cigarette. In 1972, Castro set one of his many impossible goals for the young communist nation. First he wanted to have […]

My neighbor used to have a boat. He loved this little sticker that was on the back of the boat. “I love that guy,” he said. The nugget below is from boingboing.net Folkloric history of those “Calvin peeing” car stickers. This site explores the evolution of those annoying and ubiquitous […]

Outside GoNOMAD’s office on a Monday morning January 2005. Ready to start the week. 

Got into the office early today, so I could write some blog and catch up on the weekend’s email. What a trove of treasure awaits me here, every single day. Katherine Tanney, who wrote a piece in the Times Magazine that I admired here, gave me kudos on my taste […]

Nuclear power is set to make a comeback. To some hardcore Greens, this is good news. One longtime trustee of Friends of the Earth, Hugh Montefiore, has stated that he believes the solution to global warming is to make more use of nuclear energy. Ditto for Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, […]

I spoke with Gary Blumenstein, who lives in Hawaii. Back in 1993, he registered a domain name. Then he spent more than 10 years in defense department supercomputing, often meeting in windowless rooms all day long. He told me that he was glad to be in this business, where pleasure […]

Came in from the cold, muffled up, bracing the winter winds, to meet Melody, a friend visiting from Colorado. She was warm and charming and we enjoyed a well made fire. Later we talked about Social Security, her business being financial planning. She explained that from the 7.5% we pay […]

Last night’s PBS viewing brought an evocative show about a pair of canoeists. One was a white guy, American, and in the front of the boat was a black South African. They wend their way down the Lethoso River, and all of the while the black man is talking about […]