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The NY Times included a piece with a photo of a farmer on a road almost covered with corn cobs drying in the sun. “But Dai Shumin has learned that it is not. Ms. Dai, 54, is the grande dame of Xia Xin Pu, a tiny village being squeezed by […]
Pixels for Sale: David Pogue writes in the NY Times about a man who sells pixels on his webpage “Dang, dang, dang! Either this is a hoax, or it’s the most brilliant idea anyone’s ever had on the Internet, and I’m furious I didn’t think of it first: the Million […]
Elise Rana is the Travel editor of TNT magazine in London. I was traveling with her and the day I decided to sleep in, she got up early. “At dawn, I left the cosy cabin and crackling log stove at Patricio’s lodge on the edge of Queulat National Park, in […]
Snoop doggy Dogg’s younger brother is named Bing Worthington. He was in Boston yesterday, promoting the rap star’s latest offering, Snoop Dogg hot dogs.Together, Chris Faraone writes in the Herald, their endeavors include Snoop Dogg Clothing, Cadillac Snoop DeVilles, Snoop Dogg skateboards and now, foot-long frankfurters “Worthington earned the right […]
Wireless, or Wifi, is hot these days. But rare is the person who actually understands anything about how this stuff works. Below is a chunk of text from a wireless manufacturer’s website about how Wifi signals travel. I’m trying to learn all this for my future plans… “A radio wave […]
Myspace.com was recently acquired by Rupert Murdoch for about $560 million. Wired ran a story about the site’s founders, that explained in part why this type of community, networking website is now the hottest site on the web. Myspace gets more page views than Google–’nuff said. Jeff Howe wrote a […]
Two Chinese men have been arrested after trying to sneak across the border into Russia on a lawnmower. Ananova had the story. They tried to tell border guards at the Slavyanka border post in Khasansky County in Russia’s Far East that they had got lost while cutting the grass. Russian […]
One week after several Vikings players held a lewd party on a Lake Minnetonka boat, two players were seen throwing trash in a dumpster at a construction site in Eden Prairie. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS obtained exclusive access to the trash – and the information it revealed. Viking players Bryant McKinnie […]
The pirates who attacked a luxury cruise liner off Somalia’s coast were likely to have been from the same group that hijacked a U.N.-chartered vessel in June and held its crew and food aid hostage for 100 days, a maritime official said Sunday. Two boats full of pirates approached the […]
Today’s Boston Herald had a story lamenting Massachusett’s pathetically low spending for tourism and the results. “The Bay State has fallen way behind other states in spending on tourism and it shows, say tourism industry executives. Massachusetts ranked 15th in tourism dollars spent here, falling behind the likes of Rust […]
A friend asked me what I was doing this weekend. “My sisters are coming up,” I replied, “they are so much fun everybody wants to come and see them.” He said I was lucky, and I agree. My sisters are three women I’m proud to be related to. Caroline is […]
