I was going to be patriotic today, but I’m not great at that. So instead? Disney lesson!
You might remember this chap below from a Newlywed in Dubai blog …

I bet you thought I forgot that today was July 1, eh?
Nope, I’d never forget Canada Day!
Go celebrate with your loved ones.

Uh-oh! Did you see this in the New York Times: “On iPhone 4, a Mystery of Dropped Calls“?
Apparently there are concerns that holding the new iPhone 4 in one’s …

Apple’s new iPhone 4 is being released today.

Think I’ll just wait until iPhone 5 comes out in 2011.

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.