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Navigating China’s deepest gorge: This from MSNBC today, complete with a movie showing the harrowing drive up a gravelly road up a steep mountain. Adrienne Mong wrote this account. “Tiger Leaping Gorge is believed to be the world’s deepest gorge, measuring some 10,000 feet deep, between the Jade Dragon Snow […]
In Costco today, I stopped to read a magazine that was all about one man. That man is Ty Pennington, the host of ABC’s hit show “Extreme Home Makeover” and a pitchman for Sears, and many other brands. He’s a one-man conglomerate and has a finger on the pulse–why else […]
The co-editors at Boing Boing, one of the world’s most popular blogs, have named a new Virgin America aircraft: Unicorn Chaser. The airline’s first aircraft was named Jefferson Airplane in October by the band’s lead singer, Grace Slick. This is from a press release sent out by this new airline […]
John Jurgenson writes in today’s WSJ about Ingrid Michaelson, a young singer on Staten Island who struck it big in the Web 2.0 way. Secret Road Music Services found her Myspace Page and liked her music. So tonight’s Grey’s Anatomy final episode, the high-rated season ender, will feature her song […]
Tonight I looked over a eye-popping chart in the WSJ. It was a list of planned hotel/casinos that are being built in Las Vegas. I counted more than 12,000 planned rooms, and thought, “how could one city possibly fill up that many hotel rooms? But the answer is equally impressive: […]
A sad story in today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette mentioned Victoria White, who passed away at 51 several months ago. It said that her business, DogHampton, would close soon. It was just too sad without her, her partner Deb Lohmeyer told the paper’s Rachael Hanley. Many dog owners in Northampton will […]
Browsing Wired.com, I found a story from 2002 about how tough it is to make money in the porn business. Edward Cone did the reporting. “It’s still possible to make a modest income by posting some free pictures and links as part of an affiliate program. “If you have some […]
Some times the people who work for you amaze you. Such a thing happened yesterday when our cafe manager Liz came up with a brilliant idea. She is going to shoot photos that we’ll enlarge into sepia-toned wall panels showing where we get our food from. I’ll pose with Nora’s […]
Tim Blagg, the editor of the Recorder in Greenfield, MA, wrote a column today that made a whole lot of sense. The subject was the town landfill’s Free Store. This is a place where people can take and leave objects of value, too good to just chuck into the landfill. […]
Today we woke to chilly but sunny skies at Green Lane. I read some of the news alerts about airport parking. One item caught my eye, and it made me wonder who is more important. Airport customers or airport vendors? A blogger named Don Singleton wrote about a new policy […]
Today I took the train into the city from Pelham, just like thousands of other commuters, with my friend Tom Bricker. Tom totes a skateboard to make the last mile a little easier. He works at a top-notch ad agency and their office is full of incredibly talented graphic designers, […]
I’m riding the bus again down to NYC. The driver goes right past NY and takes the GW Bridge over to Jersey, then around into the Lincoln tunnel. I guess the extra miles are worth it since traffic is terrible. I ride the bus with a group of immigrants. Up […]