Jackie Mason on his least favorite coffee shop, Starbucks. “You want coffee in a regular coffee shop, they’ll give you all the refills you want until you drop dead. You can come in when you’re 27 and keep drinking coffee until you’re 98, and they’ll start begging you: “Here, You […]
Esquire Magazine has begun arriving in my mailbox, and I am usually impressed with their ribald mixture of anecdotes, intriguing photos and plain common sense. In this month’s Seven Most Remarkable Things about Culture, they included this tale about the world’s most famous blond. “She was wearing a diaphanous, totally […]
Famed for the biggest trees in the world, Sequoia National Park is now No. 1 in another flora department: marijuana growing, with more land carved up by pot growers than any other park. Joe Robinson wrote about this in the LA Times. “Parts of Sequoia, including the Kaweah River drainage […]
An estimated 5,500 people turned out at the Richmond International Raceway in hopes of getting their hands on one of the 4-year-old Apple iBooks offered for $50 apiece recently. The Henrico County school system was selling 1,000 of the computers to county residents. New iBooks cost between $999 and $1,299. […]
A few years ago, cities wanted to be wired. Now it’s all about being wireless. Tempe is at the forefront of what is going to be the next big thing in municipal oneupmanship: Making your entire city a WiFi hot spot. Tom Gibbons writes in the East Valley Tribune yesterday. […]
David Utter in Web Pro News reports on the latest in search engine schemes. Showing actual photos of the blocks and stores you might find when you use their mapping features. “Fargo, ND, made it onto the list of major cities getting the Block View treatment from Amazon’s search engine, […]
Michael Socolow, a professor at Brandeis, serves up a recipe for success, and explains some of why newspapers are in so much trouble in this article from the Baltimore Sun. “Yet other key, but too often ignored, issues in the history of the newspaper business have played a role in […]
Tom Engelhardt writes on tomdispatch.com about the phenomena of the Soldier’s mother who is haunting Bush on his long Texas vacation. “And then, if matters weren’t bad enough, there was Cindy Sheehan. She drove to Crawford with a few supporters in a caravan of perhaps a dozen vehicles and an […]
From Garrison Keillor’s wonderful poetry and writing website Writer’s Almanac came this today. “Today is the 60th anniversary of the day on which President Harry Truman announced that the Second World War had come to an end. You might argue that more human beings were happy on this day in […]
Today’s Boston Globe incuded this Associated Press story: One person went so far as to make her own independent film about dieting at McDonald’s. “Me and Mickey D” follows Soso Whaley, of Kensington, N.H., as she spends three 30-day periods on the diet. She dropped from 175 to 139 pounds, […]
