Archive for March, 2007

WBZ-TV has the video. I’ll have to watch the tape a bit more before I can comment conclusively, but there were some good moves out there, and some moves that I’m sure they’d want to have back. I think everybody can improve across the board. That includes cheerleaders, choreographers, and coaches. It is what it [...]

American flag at Jury’s Hotel in Dupont Circle in Washington D.C. 2005. Not a bad view.

When you’re ready to shoot a guy on crowded bus in the middle of the afternoon, you’re probably not going to be much deterred by gun-shot sound monitoring. Professor Media Critic Dan Kennedy is trying to figure out the mechanics and motivations of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick attempting to fund an increase in the number [...]

Here’s a widely held notion that Bostonians should free themselves from: Boston still has one of the lowest crime and murder rates of major cities in the U.S. Really now? City Population Murder rate Boston 593,000 12.3   Austin 693,019 3.7 Dallas 1,230,303 16.8 El Paso 601,839 2.3 Fort Worth 613,261 9.8 Houston 2,045,732 16.3 [...]

This morning Bostonians had the opportunity to listen to Jacob Hacker, a political science professor at Yale University, whose main contribution so far is his book “The Great Risk Shift”. The book’s full title is “The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement–And How You Can Fight Back.” It [...]

Seriously.

The United States Census Bureau spends enormous mounts of money to collect and spit out enormous amounts of data. The Bureau seems to have developed a culture that puts far more emphasis on quantity than on quality. Less than ten days after releasing another throroughly trivial “Facts for Features” for Mother’s Day, the Bureau announed [...]

Starting early next year, or maybe later, superstore bookseller Borders will run its own online store instead of letting Amazon.com run the show. Borders’ deal with Amazon.com was struck in 2001 and means, among other things, that members of Borders’ customer-loyalty program can’t get a discount on online purchases the way members of Barnes&Noble’s customers [...]

Dunkin’ Brands Inc. has sold ToGo’s Eateries Inc. That’s a bit odd since Dunkin’ Donuts is reportedly looking to reenter California, the state where ToGo’s has its strongest market position.

“Computer generated blood” registers 1,010 hits on Google as I write this. Add movie to the search and you’re left with 478. Go with 300 instead of movie and you’re still left with 302 hits.