Category Archives: Culture, News and Politics

For April Fools day, Hulu had their website all done in old fashioned html: blink tag, scrolling marquee, counter, guestbook, and animated gif under construction dude and all. Love under construction dude. It is awesome. Other April Fools gems: Google Motion PLAYMOBIL(TM) Apple Store Playset Akihabara Police Car with Anime Decals And if you like [...]

Olbermann: There is no Ground Zero Mosque “They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. [...]

Found this article: Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications…. It was linked from wired article, which I found through Pinyadda. The article accurately describes why I like those applications. I didn’t know terms like bacn (which is an email that you subscribed but don’t read, better than spam – I have lots [...]

CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Paul Levy started this on his blog, in response to the news surrounding possible close down of the Boston Globe, (and lots more updates here, here, and here and many others). A number of Boston-based bloggers who care about the continued existence of the Globe have [...]

I am now reading my favorite author, Haruki Murakami’s “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” in English language. The translation is very good, and it is always fascinating to think about how publisher’s decide which Japanese book to be published in US, and which US books to go to Japan. I did a very quick search on [...]