I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the Area 51 article in last week’s Los Angeles Times: “The Road to Area 51.”

Wow, I just saw this article at the New York Times “Coffee to Go That Brews While You Carry It.”
It’s a fully-recyclable single-use French Press cup called the “XPress cup” …

So there’s a proposal to extend train service northward from Portland to Brunswick. Apparently they’re looking for a new train station in Portland … and are seriously looking at …

Recently United and Continental Airlines announced they were merging.
Frankly I didn’t care much about the merger until I saw this photo:

Look at the abomination of a logo on …

Check out the design for San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center released a few weeks ago.
When it’s completed in 2017, it’ll be the hub for twelve different transit systems, including the …

Fascinating article in the New York Times the other day about the languages that are more commonly heard in New York than anywhere else in the world, even from where …

Yep, the ‘Armani Hotel Dubai’ opened this week in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building: “Armani Debuts in Dubai.”
Wonder how tough it’ll be nowadays to fill those 160 rooms …

A new report says the Sox are the second most hated MLB team … after the Indians?
Wha?

You probably already seen this, but I’ve run out of things to post. Or I’m just lazy. Your call.
“Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black.”
Imagine that …

The Daily Kos had an interesting article the other day: “Join Major League Baseball Boycott of Arizona: Hit the Pocketbooks.”
Next year’s MLB All-Star game is scheduled to be played at …

Oh my God I’m ten years too old to be on MTV’s The Real World!
From yesterday’s Portland Press Herald: “‘Real World’ looks to Portland for new cast.”
Don’t worry, I don’t …

Another cool Freakonomics blog from the New York Times: “A New Kind of Starting Pitcher?”
The suggestion is start a baseball game with “the Opener”, kind of like a closer, someone …

Again with the Freakonomics blog on the New York Times: “An Important Human Right.”
Subsidized vacations for citizens over 65, kids between the ages of 18 and 25, and families facing …

I was kind of surprised there wasn’t much on the internets about New Coke’s 25th anniversary the other day. The one story I saw was ESPN Page 2: “New …

It was twenty-five years ago today that Coca-Cola revealed “New Coke!”
Twenty-five years!
There are articles (and books) out there that’ll point out every nuanced flaw in completely replacing one’s flagship brand, …

Rolling Stone is a weird magazine. For all of it’s articles about old hippies, obscure bands you’ll never hear of again, and pot (every two weeks another article about …

They’re redesigning our money? Again?!

I know they have to thwart counterfeiters, but do we really need a new $100 bill every year now?

Months that should be summer’s prime,
Sleet and snow and frost and rime.
Air so cold you see your breath,
Eighteen hundred and froze to death.
Oh that Freakonomics Blog at the New York …

I just discovered “A Blog About Beer” with their post about the new Baxter Brewing Co.
What is Baxter? A new beer company, setting up shop in the historic …

I read about this before, but this fascinates me: “The origins of a holy book.”
Corpus Coranicum is a project from scholars at Germany’s Berlin-Brandenberg Academy of Sciences to analyze various …