“Biking” to work this morning was awful, as the entire Charles
River bikepath upriver from the B.U. Bridge was entirely unplowed. It
was warm enough that the snow had slushed, and so the new studded tire
I was eager to test out was useless.
Sure, public clearing of roads isn’t perfect,
but at least they try, if only because it [...]
The only Boston-area Army Corps of Engineers hearing on the Cape Cod wind farm project will take place tonight,
7-11pm, at MIT at 77 Mass Ave., Room 10-250. It’s crucial that our
regional, state, national, and international interests overcome
backwards-looking NIMBYists. Quite frankly, the aesthetic impact of
wind turbines is nothing compared to the health and environmental
impact of power [...]
Philip Greenspun (of arsDigita
fame) went home-shopping in Cambridge and was appalled at the
structurally unsound half-house in Central Square that he found for
$1.25 million. Greenspun’s pretty off-base in his assessment of the
neighborhood: “Central Square is a place with pretty high crime rates
(the city owns
much of the housing in the area and fills it up with people [...]
Hanzi Smatter (”Dedicated to
the misuse of Chinese characters (Hanzi or Kanji) in Western culture”
– love that tagline, very catchy don’t you think?) has made the rounds
of the blogosphere, so why not link yet again to it?
Speaking of the title
of this post: “I know a bunch of crypts that love Redman”? “Get lost in
town, end up [...]
Today’s Globe tried to pull controversy from a non-story: the “adult
content” of comic strips. The article harkened back to a mythical
golden age of comics when, “You laughed or you didn’t, you read them or
ignored them. But until recently the funny pages didn’t usually make
you angry.”
Well, anyone who regularly reads this blog (all 5 of you) [...]
