Monthly Archives: September 2003

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) — A company calling itself Lover Spy has begun offering a way for jealous lovers — and anyone else — to spy on the computer activity of their mates by sending an electronic greeting, the equivalent … Continue reading →

Iraqis logging onto news and porn LONDON, England (CNN) — The Baghdad bloggers became famous for their insights into life during the Iraqi war. The Internet pioneers courted danger and risked death by messaging to the outside world. Now Internet … Continue reading →

When I was a child I had but one ambition for my future life and career. All my friends wanted to be firemen and astronauts, certainly worthy pursuits, to which I devoted occasional fantasies and game playing time, but not … Continue reading →

Manulife Financial President and CEO Dominic D’Alessandro, right, smiles as John Hancock Financial Chairman and CEO David D’Alessandro, no relation, answers questions at a news conference in Toronto on Monday September 29, to announce the merger of their two companies. … Continue reading →

Finally! BU wins SOMETHING! As posted here in August, Boston University has been hoping to construct a $1.6 billion dollar biodefense facility in a crowded low-income neighborhood in the Boston area. Neighbors are understandably upset, as the announced facility would … Continue reading →

Little Joe’s saga continues: (for those of you too lazy to scroll down to yesterday’s entries, Little Joe is a teenaged 300-lb gorilla who keeps sneaking out of the house and on Sunday was recaptured at a bus stop in … Continue reading →

The Federal governemt is about to unveil the new VISIT system, which aims to keep track of when and where each of the one million foreign visitors to the US each year enter and leave the country. In a way, … Continue reading →

When I teach marketing and we get to the unit on packaging I always bring a banana to class and use it as an example of perfection in packaging; colorful, iconic, easy-to-open, bio-degradable. Common sense tells us that in this … Continue reading →

It is my confirmed belief that there are really no such things a Coincidences. Everything in this universe is connected, its just that some of the connections are obvous and some are obscure and indecipherable. Like why a worldwide icon … Continue reading →

In the biggest deal in recent Boston business history, the 141-year-old John Hancock Financial Services has been sold to Manulife, a Canadian insurance and financial services conglomerate, for $10.9 billion. In an incredible "coincidence", the presidents of the two companies … Continue reading →

  My God, is nothing sacred? Iconic Russian pornography espousing Eurosupremacy! The US as Eurobitch! The Russian text reportedly reads "They all look the same in the dark!" Advertising authorities in Moscow have banned a poster campaign showing the euro … Continue reading →

  Alanis Morissette shocked fans when she ended her first gig in Peru by shouting: "Thank you Brazil!" Morissette made the mistake in front of a 14,000 crowd at the Monumental Stadium in Lima. Before the gig Alanis Morissette visited … Continue reading →