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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 [...]

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:

Foreigners are funny: This is reality for many in Bulgaria, unpleasant as it is. Stray docs flock around kiosk where poor people buy unhealthy ‘snacks’ as they are called, made of flour, water, salt and sunflower oil. I bet the stray docs are pestering people to eat healthier food. Judging from the picture in article [...]

It’s all fun and inspirational games until somebody leaves for a better playground. Brandeis University hails its then-favorite son after he was tagged as Boston new school superintendent: “Manny Rivera is an outstanding educational leader whose passion, dedication, and success in educating urban children are inspiring,” said Professor Marya R. Levenson, the Harry S. Levitan [...]

Funny little incident in Sweden: A woman of marginal fame recently used her now-defunct blog to accuse some celebrity of being a purchaser of pornography, something he angrily denied. Turns out the woman’s source was of the urban legend kind: A gas-station customer had told a gas-station attendant who told the woman (hey, isn’t that [...]

Here’s an interesting correction in The Boston Globe on January 19: Correction: Because of an editing error, a caption in yesterday’s Business Notebook wrongly indicated that a new Dunkin’ Donuts store in Taiwan is in China. Taiwan is an independent nation. I don’t envy the Globe editor who had to tackle that correction. I think [...]

Scott Pioli remains a Patriot New England Patriots General Manager Scott Pioli has declined an opportunity to interview with the New York Giants. That is great news for us Patriots fans. Thank you, Mr. Pioli, for staying, and thank you Robert Kraft for keeping Mr. Pioli happy enough to stay with the team. I assume [...]

The following were the five most read posts on Internet128.com in 2006, as roughly estimated by me based on non-exact statistics and possibly wishful thinking: The Kaavya Viswanathan “Opal Mehta” plagiarism story was big news back in April and May and continues to bring people to this site. Quite a few people are looking for [...]

You are probably familiar with the saying that success has a thousand parents while failure is an orphan. I was reminded of that when a local university recently invited me and the missus to watch a movie (or possibly exhibition, or perhaps both) that celebrates the school’s contributions to “social justice.” I imagine the “social [...]

Merry Christmas! Silent night, holy night, Son of God, love’s pure light. Radiant beams from Thy holy face, With the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth; Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth.