Latest Twitterance:

@ianb: Enjoying the @SarrahPalinU5A twitter stream. Hilariously parodical or chillingly accurate? 1 day ago

The NHL needs more Sean Averys

September 24, 2008

It could be said that hockey is a very Canadian sport. It embodies the Canadian values of humility, camaraderie, sportsmanship, egalitarianism, subtlety, respect for tradition, and conservatism. Inside the confines of the rink, hockey players are larger-than-life: aggressive, assertive, and spectacular. Outside the rink? Not so much. This is one of the overriding problems that [...]

Read the full article →

Waiting For Spielberg..

September 20, 2003

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/magazine/magazinespecial/ MFMERHANT.html September 21, 2003 Waiting For Spielberg By MATTHEW ROSE Unlike most urban legends, the one about the Iranian exile stuck at the Paris airport for 15 years is true. Surrounded by a mountain of his possessions near the Paris Bye Bye lounge at Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Merhan Karimi [...]

Read the full article →

NYTimes: Online Dating Sheds Its Stigma as Losers.com

July 6, 2003

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/ abstract.html?resû0B13FD3C5E0C7A8EDDAF0894DB404482 The New York Times June 29, 2003 Online Dating Sheds Its Stigma as Losers.com By AMY HARMON Of the 120 men she traded messages with online in her first four months of Internet dating, Kristen Costello, 33, talked to 20 on the telephone at least once and met 11 in person. Of those, [...]

Read the full article →

Forbes on iTunes Music Store..

April 30, 2003

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,447333,00.html? APPLE Songs in the Key of Steve Steve Jobs may have just created the first great legal online music service. That’s got the record biz singing his praises. FORTUNE Monday, April 28, 2003 By Devin Leonard Steve Jobs loves music. But as with a lot of geeks in Silicon Valley, his musical tastes are [...]

Read the full article →

Information Bob Fan Site…

April 11, 2003

http:/www.WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com —— http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030411/wr_nm/ iraq_minister_website_dc Web Site for Iraqi Minister Rocks Cyberspace Thu Apr 10, 8:30 PM ET Add Technology – Reuters Internet Report to My Yahoo! LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A member of Saddam Hussein (news – web sites)’s vanquished regime has sprung up as an unlikely hero in cyberspace on a Web site embraced [...]

Read the full article →

Apple Wants to Buy Universal Music?

April 11, 2003

Sorry about the nasty translation from German to English… an interesting theory. ——— http://216.239.35.120/ translate_c?hl=en&ie=ASCII&oe=ASCII&langpairÞ%7Cen&u=http:// www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,244270,00.html Apple obviously offers for universal Music For universal Music, the largest disk company of the world, obviously was an unexpected prospective customer. Apple boss Steve job is to have called a purchase price for the music section of the [...]

Read the full article →

Want To Hear About The Peace Movement? Watch Springer..

December 10, 2002

—– http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/ 0,7792,857271,00.html Los Angeles dispatch When doves cry Want to find out about the anti-war movement in America? Forget network news and tune in to Jerry Springer, says Duncan Campbell Tuesday December 10, 2002 Tom Hayden was one of the main figures in the anti-Vietnam movement in the Sixties, arrested in 1968 during the [...]

Read the full article →

The $19,450 Phone

December 2, 2002

Begin forwarded message:> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/magazine/ > 01CELLPHONE.html?tntemail0=&pagewanted=print&position=top > > The New York Times > December 1, 2002 > The $19,450 Phone > By MARK LEVINE > > Although the Beverly Hills retail outlet of a newly christened company > called Vertu is situated on a stretch of Rodeo Drive whose storefronts > are > occupied by [...]

Read the full article →

Polishing Hollywood’s Image Starts From the Sidewalk Up

November 11, 2002

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/11/national/ 11HOLL.html?ex37979389&ei=1&enU6a524378c3e3fd Polishing Hollywood’s Image Starts From the Sidewalk Up November 11, 2002 By CHARLIE LeDUFF HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 10 – It is commonly said at cocktail parties and on the street corners of New York that Los Angeles is an insipid backwater, a lukewarm bath. But for those East Coast jingoists who do not believe [...]

Read the full article →

US in Denial as Poverty Rises…

November 4, 2002

http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,825150,00.html US in denial as poverty rises Next door to Yale, the bastion of privilege that turns out the land’s leaders, lies a tent city of America’s poor, huddled masses. Ed Vulliamy reports on the rise in inequality as the nation prepares to vote Sunday November 3, 2002 The Observer The north wind cuts cold [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries