Last night, I was lucky enough to see the Orioles’ Mike Bordick break the Major League Baseball record for consecutive games (102) by a shortstop without an error.
Last June, the Masai tribe of Kenya donated 14 cows to the people of America. (New York Times; free registration required.) They’d just heard the news about September 11th, and they wanted to give us a token of their sympathy. Earlier this week, a group of people from the Washington area returned the kindness by […]
Boston’s “Big Dig” project, which has so far taken 15 years and cost $14.6 billion, is designed to ease traffic by eventually making the city’s current aboveground central artery a mammoth underground passage. But what’ll they do with the new open space that’s created? (New York Times; free registration required.) Construction is projected to be […]
A new order ensures that Area 51 will remain shrouded in secrecy. During the summer of 1993, a friend and I drove down some desolate roads near the Nevada base. It was weird. There were all sorts of strange surveillance devices, and there were intimidating signs that said something like “This area is restricted. Deadly […]
This could be Atlanta’s year to win the World Series. I hope they do it. They’re looking good.
Another verbal gaffe from Dubya. (Real Player. 18 seconds.) “There’s an old saying in Tennessee–I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee–that says, fool me once, shame on–shame on you. Fool me–you can’t get fooled again.” –Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002.
Observations on this photo and its caption:1) That is an enormous carp.2) Kurt Grabmayer and Manfred Pfeffer, the anglers in the picture, have funny names. According to this site, Kurt is a “carp - predator - allround expert & rod building,” and Manfred is a “carp expert.” 3) Austria has a carp fishing […]
A miniature robot dispatched to explore a narrow, mysterious tunnel in Egypt’s Great Pyramid found its path blocked.
“I’m Not Proud Of Some Of The Things I’ve Done.” A must-read for dog lovers.
The War on Iraq Evite. You’re invited!
Though I love living in Washington, one thing that’s always bothered me about the city is that everything closes so early at night–restaurants, bars, stores.
This article, in yesterday’s Post, laments DC’s early-to-bed nature. The piece also refers to a new vending machine in the Adams Morgan neighborhood–it’s an enormous contraption that offers everything from […]
Here’s a practical, comprehensive description of how non profits can use email newsletters to communicate with their constituents.
The Washington Post says that “A U.S.-led ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could open a bonanza for American oil companies long banished from Iraq, scuttling oil deals between Baghdad and Russia, France and other countries, and reshuffling world petroleum markets, according to industry officials and leaders of the Iraqi opposition.”
(Obvious comment about Bush/Cheney oil […]
Rat poison may be responsible for a mass outbreak of food poisoning in China. More than 100 people may have been killed.
“Fighting the Menace of Unwanted E-Mail” is an interesting op-ed that offers some ideas for dealing with spam. (New York Times; free registration required.)