Archive for March, 2007

I read an AP story on a battle in Baqouba, Iraq, in the print edition of the Lowell Sun this morning and was startled by how slanted it seemed against the U.S. troops. However, the full AP article, written by Lauren Frayer, is much better, and well worth a read. I don’t think for a [...]

God bless the voters in Winchester, MA, 79% of whom last night voted in favor of the town purchasing a 20-acre farm for $13.6 million to prevent a developer from building a rental complex on the land. As Boston Globe‘s op-ed columnist Jeff Jacoby will cheerfully tell you, there are more than seven acres of [...]

Mike Mennonno went to the blogger summit called by the editor of the daily free newspaper BostonNow, scheduled to launch later this year. Mr. Mennonno was not impressed (via Universal Hub). The newspaper is not giving up, however, and will hold another meeting on March 27. Unlike Mr. Mennonno, I don’t think BostonNow will find [...]

1) Our idea is unique 2) We have no competitors 3) Gartner and Jupiter say our market will be worth $16 billion in 5 years 4) Our projected profit and revenue ($ million) over the next five years:

BPDnews.com reporting on an incident in Dorchester: …after the suspect was taken into custody, the following weapons were taken from the residence: (1) an oozie machine gun with 3 high-capacity magazines capable of firing up to 90 rounds of ammunition (2) a .45 semi-automatic hand gun (3) a 9mm assault rifle (4) another .45 semi-automatic [...]

At about seven this morning I saw several transit police officers and two television crews on the inbound platform at Park Street, and another group of T-cops at Government Center. The cops were handing out fliers or brochures to passengers. I don’t know what prompted these displays of police presence. UPDATE: Perhaps the cops wanted [...]

The story out of Las Vegas is that an auction for the domain name porn.com ended short of the minimum asking price of $7.5 million. The site is currently said to pull in over $1 million a year on nothing more than the most basic of monetization. Said by whom, you ask? By people who [...]

Natick High School has dropped its Redmen nickname, but the school clearly won’t make Vikings its new name, as I had hoped, since “the Natick public schools shall cease the use of the team name Redmen or any other name, symbol or mascot that is based on or makes reference to race or ethnicity.” Bastards. [...]

Former Boston Herald sports columnist Michael Gee comments on the Ron Borges incident, and reveals how he handled the notes-column format: Even back in my day TV and radio were taking newsy little tidbits from around the league and turning them into mid-week hoo-has. My solution was hardly original. I wrote mini-columns, made calls looking [...]

New England Patriots have traded two picks to Miami Dolphins for restricted free agent Wes Welker, a speedy wide-out and kick-returner with good hands and legitimate big-play ability. Here’s Bill Belichick going on and on about Welker prior to New England’s first game against Miami last season: I think this is a big challenge for [...]