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Brett Arends writes in the Boston Herald about the NY Times vaunted “Times Select,” where people pay extra to read the big name columnists like Friedman, Krugman and Dowd. There are 482,000 who have signed up for the service so far. “However, the paper further admits that 62 percent of […]
In Horea, Romania, there’s a new hot tourist spot, particularly if you’re into … well, “humping”. I found this item on the ‘net this afternoon. “The Romanian village of Horea has become a tourism hot spot thanks to a “humping hill” which is said to help childless couples conceive. Corneliu […]
Sunday night’s dinner was with interesting company. My pal Joe had us over for dinner with Stephanie and her five girlfriends. I had not spent time with this many young women in a long time. The vivacious 30-something gals were vibrant and energetic. We talked about the cafe, and my […]
Today I met my friend Paul Shoul at Northampton Coffee. What a comfortable place: strong coffee, deep china mugs, a window to look out of. We talked about Paul’s upcoming blog, (watch for a link to it here) and then I read the NY Times. Found a story about “online […]
It’s a crappy grey day at the Cafe. Yet the customers, slowly but surely, are coming in the door. It was a treat today to man the counter for a while, and talk to a young couple who had come in for the first time. “How long have you been […]
I sat outside the cafe today, rain threatening, since reading the paper out there helps bring people in. The Republican had Thomas Friedman’s column about the Big Three automakers, again, making a mistake. He chided them for their recent ad campaign, where they give away gas cards to keep the […]
Love that afternoon TV in the basement. Where else but on the History Channel’s “Five Star Heroes” would I be able to learn about the life and times of General George Marshall. Marshall went to Virginia Military Institute, his brother thought he’d flunk out. He couldn’t get into West Point. […]
Got home late tonight. Was working on a proposal in collaboration with another website. Very high profile client, good sized proposal. Talking to the west coast late into the night. Later, on the Tonight Show, there was a funny bit called Pumpcam. The scene was from the survelliance camera in […]
Alphonse D’Arco, born July 28, 1932, grew up near the Brooklyn Navy Yards, a neighborhood of heavyweight mobsters _ some his relatives. His childhood, D’Arco once recalled, was “like being in the forest and all the trees were the dons and the organized crime guys.” AOL had the story behind […]
Tonight we returned from NJ and watched a tape of HBO’s documentary called Baghdad ER. It was a graphic depiction of life in the MASH unit of this stupid war. Every day soldiers are medivac’ed in, almost all of them suffering the effects of IED’s, the dreaded roadside bombs detonated […]
CNN reports today about using RFID tags on luggage. It’s being tested in Hong Kong Airport. “If you have a misplaced piece of luggage today, someone has to physically stand next to it, or the bag has to pass in front of the reader before we know where it is,” […]
Poring over the NY Times again while visiting Steve Gilbert’s big house in Lambertville, I found this short article about MySpace providing a spot on the web for Nylon magazine. It’s an ingenious idea: The music and fashion magazine will publish a digital June/July issue, which readers can download, that […]