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Joseph Elwell, 37, has a problem on his chest. It all started when he decided to get a tattoo. A troubling tattoo. Police in Medford arrested him last week after he tried to run a cop over with his car. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. It […]
A month ago I mentioned some Nantucketers were going to find out first hand what it’s like living next to a windfarm. So they went, courtesy of a lobbying group, to Scandinavia and met Danes who live near these facilities. Ack.net, my favorite source of Nantucket news, said this. “After […]
All night I tossed and turned, thinking about what time I needed to wake up. I had agreed to do a phone interview on Springfield’s WHYN-560 AM at 7 am, and these guys get up early. I kept imagining I had missed it, then dozing off, then waking up suddenly. […]
In Milwaukee, the City Magazine snagged a former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, who left the paper for the mag, and now tells all the inside secrets of the state’s largest daily. “In The Trenches For someone who has never worked at a daily paper, there is no preparation for the […]
Went out and bought a copy of the Wall Street Journal when someone emailed saying they had seen GoNOMAD in there. Wrong date, we were in Monday’s edition, but still found some interesting recipes. Naha, in Chicago, likes to blanch stinging nettles in boiling water, squeeze them dry, then saute […]
Roger Friedman writes on Fox news’ “The area where Michael Jackson lives, the Santa Ynez Valley, is jaw-droppingly beautiful. The real surprise about Santa Maria is that if you go 20 miles in any direction, the surrounding landscape offers unlimited enjoyments. From the moonscape of the Guadalupe dunes to the […]
Been having some problems, sorry about those bogus photos that don’t load. Been discovering some new weird stuff that people are trying to do with links on the web as scams. Web Pro News reports on Search Spamming: that the Financial Times printed invisible links on a page, so that […]
If you were given a minute to blast your opinion out to the world, what would you want to talk about? In Ohio, there is a bike that tows a yellow trailer. Atop is an old fashioned phonograph-like horn, and inside is an Mp3 player, cellphone and a microcontroller. Daniel […]
Today we had a visit with Ray Herschel, who came to South Deerfield to interview us about the new .xxx domains. I commented that this new domain is actually going to increase the number of porn sites, since any smart owner will just pick up the more expensive .xxx domain […]
GM announced that what was once a special employee benefit will now be open to anyone…anyone who wants to buy a GM instead of a Toyota. Here is AOL’s account. Things are not looking good for the world’s largest automaker. Inventories of vehicles are piling up on dealer lots, sales […]
Michael Kittredge is a legend in the Pioneer Valley where I live. My cousin Steve once worked at the factory where the man’s fortune was built and praises him as a major mensch. A recent article in the Sunday NY Times featured details of his life and toys, an example […]
