Entries from June 2007

A little bit ago I reminded you all about the commercial for Xenical, the prescription form of Alli, the weight-loss [...]

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 Every now and then, one of the Google ads on this site catches my eye. I used to be afraid [...]

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My father has a bunch of old whiskies and such in his house that he doesn’t want. I grabbed a [...]

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You can’t relish always being connected (Blogs! Facebook! Twitter! iPhone!) and then be surprised when too many people are always on their cell [...]

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I’m working on some changes to this blog — specifically, to try to give it a more solid focus. What [...]

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Alas, the ride is over. But it was a lot of fun. Changes in the USA Today newsroom mean freelancers [...]

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Check it out at Roanoke.com. The iPhone has a beautiful, easy to use interface, but the phone’s capabilities lag those [...]

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I think this image captured from BigChampagne’s BCDash Web site says a lot. It’s a list of the top movies being [...]

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It’s a “zorse.” And no, it’s apparently not Photoshopped. Via the Sun.

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Seriously. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: An air-traffic controller in Oberlin [near Cleveland] was reprimanded because his aquamarine pants were [...]

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1. There is a vast, worldwide conspiracy to destroy Apple. It includes journalists, Microsoft, and the business community in general. [...]

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  From 6/27, via the Comics Curmudgeon and the Houston Chronicle.

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I was surprised to find that the iPhone is a lot more limited than I expected. And I’m not talking [...]

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Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War [...]

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Seriously. If nonsense like the never-could-work liquid-bomb plot got you nervous, you probably don’t want to read “Butterflies and Beverages,” the [...]

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“So,” sez my wife, “there are going to be a lot of people oozing around here.” “Huh?” Seems she saw [...]

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Researching a story about mosquito-control technology, I talked with an ex-Navy entomologist who is now technical advisor for the American [...]

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Taken by my friend Julie at a local bookstore the Barnes and Noble in State College, Pa.:

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So here goes the hand wringing over Bill Dedman’s MSNBC story on “Journalists who wrote political checks.” Right-wing extremists are [...]

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This is one of those lawsuits that has the potential to change the Web as we know it, yet I [...]

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