Today’s the 53rd anniversary of Kenneth Arnold’s UFO sighting, a/k/a UFO Day!

This one took me aback, until I noticed the slight-of-hand in the wording (I’ll underline it).
Denver has 300 days of annual sunshine.
Located east of a major mountain range, Denver …

Denver is big on sports. So you can imagine they’re one of the thirteen cities with teams from four major sports.
But they tout themselves as being one of two …

Now that I’m liberated from my job, I can do things like take back returnables and go to Target in the middle of the day. So I did both …

Today’s fun fact is about growth and population make-up of Denver.
Denver grew by 30 percent in the 1990s – an average of 1,000 new residents a week, every …

Miami’s weird. Sure, I’ve never been there, but I’m familiar with their Vice, their Bad Boys and their Crime Scene Investigators (seriously, do the police all drive Hummers down …

Liz is off today for Denver, and I’ll follow in a few days – one of our friends we met in Dubai is getting married out there.
Along with the usual …

Gail Collins had an interesting op-ed in the New York Times last week: “The Rise of the Richies“.
Made me think of Maine’s own Les Otten.

A Romanian dude snuck aboard Sheikh Mohammed’s jet! Dude, if they’d landed in the Middle East we never would have heard this story: “Stowaway survives flight from Austria to …

I haven’t talked much about BP’s Oil Spill here, although I’ve had something like 53 days to do so.
It wasn’t until I saw this logo from the Florida Department of …

It wasn’t a great concept – is it for kids or for drunk adults? – but it’s still sad: “Disney to close 5 ESPN Zone restaurants.”

They’re keeping the one at …

My wife likes tennis, I like Disney. Put them together, you get Rafael Nadal at Disneyland Paris celebrating his fifth French Open:

Aw frigging hell: “Say goodbye to full-time jobs with benefits.”
James Stoeckmann, senior practice leader at WorldatWork, a professional association of human resource executives, believes that full-time employees could become the …

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Apple’s new iPhone 4 they revealed yesterday. It seemed like I’ve wanted an iPhone for the last three and a half years. …

Did you see that Apple released info on the new iPhone 4 yesterday?

It comes out June 24.

From today’s 7Days: “A Dubai hotel for Gucci’s girl“.
Seriously.

Yesterday the Guardian had an article about Ras al-Khaimah (one of the other seven emirates in the UAE) and their terrorist links: “Ras al-Khaimah’s links to al-Qaida, not Iran, is …

Just read a story about the Khan Shatyry Entertainment Centre in Astana, Kazakhstan. Er, the whatnow?
Well, the reason it caught my eye was the title: “The New Dubai?”
It’s pretty …

So they won’t allow gay marriage, but California voters, by a modest margin, think they should be allowed to grow and consume marijuana.
Huh.

They released the new logo for Disney’s California Adventure park the other day on the Disney Parks Blog: “First Look: New ‘World of Color’ TV Spot.”
Check it out:

Here’s the old …