Archive for July, 2008

Stop telling lies, Tom. You are an habitual liar. Patriots Football Weekly writer Erik Scalavino addressing his colleague Tom Casale on PFW In Progress. Former Patriots Football Weekly senior writer Tom Casale started his new job at some kind of sports-betting related website out in the Nevada desert off with a bang by posting a [...]

Today’s podcast of PFW In Progress was the last with Tom Casale. As I mentioned some time ago, Casale is heading to some kind of grandiose, gambling-related job in Las Vegas, where he’ll earn more and pay less and probably be arrested on a felony charge in less than nine months. That’s right, the over/under [...]

Last week the New England Patriots started their pre-season camp and last Sunday morning I and thousands of other Patriots fans watched a full-pad practice session. I have several photos from the camp that I will add to Picture America over the next few days, but here are some from the goings on around the [...]

Cuil is a brand new search engine that claims to have the biggest bleeping index of WWW pages known to man (and mostly, I imagine, machines, as in bots and scrapers). It’s the brain child of a small group of ex-Google employees and it has received a lot of attention among the kind of people [...]

The Boston Herald is hiring an “experienced NFL reporter to cover the New England Patriots,” so if you’re an over-weight baseball fan who thinks urban legends are fit for print you’re encouraged to apply.

I mentioned in the post on Boston sport-talk radio station 850-AM WEEI snapping up Patriots Friday that the station is looking to make its web site “world class.” Job descriptions for a Site Designer and a Developer/Systems Administrator for WEEI posted on Craig’s List and Entercom.com are a bit more specific: We are looking for [...]

“Labour” and “Theatre” apparently aren’t enough for the Imperials, they even spell Monroe differently, as evidenced by this piece in Edmonton Sun: Who would someone as sultry as Prestin pick as her hero? Norma Jeane Baker (Marilyn Munro)… You probably don’t won’t to click that link if you’re at work surfing the Internet in full [...]

There will be a fatso worth listening to on WEEI’s The Big Show this fall. The implosion of ESPN Radio 890-AM has paved the way for WEEI 850-AM to snap up Patriots Friday, an all-day extravaganza of New England Patriots related programming. WEEI already had Patriots Monday, the day-after programming package that featured exclusive interviews [...]

The United States Census Bureau has released its population estimates for cities and other so-called subcounty areas. According to the estimate the 2007 population in Boston was 599,351, 3,653 more than the revised estimate for 2006, and a full 8,588 more than the original estimate for 2006, and 10,210 more than the 2000 population count, [...]

The Boston Globe‘s Stephanie Ebbert has an interesting if incomplete article in today’s Boston Globe about the United States Census Bureau’s estimates for the populations of Massachusetts and Boston. The population estimates aren’t critically important since it is the decennial population counts (the census) that determines the distribution of congressional delegates, distribution of federal funds [...]