I’m a few days late in mentioning it, but according to the Providence Phoenix my friend David Segal is “the hippest guy in [Rhode Island's] state government”. I always knew David was a hip guy, but until now, I didn’t realize just how hip he was. Apparently one friend likens Dave to “Adrian Grenier’s hip [...]
Three weeks ago I went on a bit of a rant about why Verizon does worse things than offer subpar phones. Here’s one more item for the list. Last week Verizon denied Naral Pro-Choice America permission to use their network to send text message alerts to Verizon customers who signed up. Today, Verizon decided to [...]
I didn’t have this blog back in December 2006 when the times ran this story, but lead-ins be damned. Last night my housemate brought up the Wikipedia entry for ambergris. As any perfume connoisseur (or futurama fan) knows, ambergris is a waxy substance secreted by sperm whales then oxidized by years at sea. It’s unique [...]
Here’s a fun fact: I ate pickled lemons twice in the last week, and zero times before that. My first pickled lemon was last Sunday in NYC at the LES Pickle Festival. My second was yesterday in my very own kitchen. Apparently they were purchased at a Lebanese market in Seekonk. I remember liking the [...]
The posts on this blog seem to be getting a bit technical. I felt better about the situation when the front page still contained pictures of some unfortunately shaped tomatoes, but alas those days are behind me. Now I’m stuck with a blog featuring fun topics like the internet, web apps, and of course, terrorist [...]
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal informed me that most scientific research is wrong. Specifically, Professor of Medicine John Ioannidis (plus two coauthors) recently published this study in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The paper examines 432 gender-based health claims in 77 articles found on PubMed. They concluded almost all of the claims were [...]
Building on an ongoing theme, it’s only fitting that I mention google office’s new presentation app. Unlike word processing and spreadsheets, I make power point slides fairly often, so I was pretty into the idea of a google-based replacement.
The great thing about making slides online is that there’s not need to transfer them from [...]
Can you believe that as of last week, the domain iloveURLs.com was unclaimed? With all URLs have done for the world, you’d think someone would have paid tribute to them in URL form. Fortunately for the internet, I’ve picked up the slack.
You know how this blog is positively inundated with posts about Providence? It turns out I now have a second venue for my Providence-related musings. Some friends of mine recently started the Providence Daily Dose (think Gothamist for Providence). Sensing that their site is the dose of bloggie goodness Providence’s urban revival so desperately needs, [...]
The channel surfers among you probably noticed that all day MSNBC has been airing large chunks of NBC’s broadcast from the morning of September 11th, 2001. I’m curious how most people react to this. I find it pretty riveting, although I could do without the teasers before each commercial.
Six years ago, I was asleep for [...]