This is an interesting idea: a McLuhanesque unintended outcome of the information economy where widgets and robots do all the work. We are getting dulled by it all. Time was when the leisure society was the promise. A three day work week for a 1968 lifestyle. We were all to be driving off to go …

For something that is supposed to be reflective of the new, "web 2.0" sure is getting long in the tooth. And, really, isn't it a bit passed it already? All it was supposed to mean was the responsive and chatty aspects of the internet - you know that aspect that was aways there but just not …

It is a wonderful thing to have an archive of your very own. A place to dip into the past and be reminded that just a few short years ago people seriously thought that blogging was going to replace journalism. Well, here we are in 2008 and the seeds sown may be bearing something unexpected - the …

Because it's my birthday! Imagine - me, forty-five. Boy am I old. So old I bought black Doc Marten boots yesterday which I now consider my first mid-life crisis purchase. And it's gonna be sunny and warm today plus through the weekend. And it's Friday. And portland's showing for the weekend. And …

You have to like this guy. He decides he is going after a child killer - and he gets him:  •  “Asked about the fugitive's condition, Mr. Robinson, a trapper and wilderness guide, would only say: "He's a hurting unit." Friends have said Mr. Robinson took it upon himself to go out looking for Mr …

I have no idea what this means, what the 7.8 expresses or even what the units are but apparently things are looking up:  •  “Americans are feeling slightly more optimistic this month as they come to grips with a struggling economy and an uncertain future, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released …

Let's just say "wow" is about all I can think of at the moment reading this news.

I wonder. I am as sympathetic to the farmer as the next guy who has worked a plot as big as I have. A farming friend - a brother, in fact - once let me know how you can spot a 40 cent a post cost hog farm from a 80 cent a pound one. One survives these times while others do not.  •  But not if the …

Not just TV, but I listen to the radio, too. I listened to golf on the radio at about 7 pm yesterday. 620 AM out of Syracuse had the end of the Masters going. Golf on the radio is hard to follow. Apparently there is a tradition and a guy playing lounge piano involved.  •  A guy from South Africa …