I suppose the 45 rpm manufacturers associations of American scrambled to find other ways to market the seven inch disk with a hole in the middle, too:  •  “But Texas Instruments, the chip maker that developed the digital light processor most commonly found in most rear-projection TVs, is holding …

There is a good story in The New York Times this morning about classic baseball announcers and it includes this photo of Red Barber broadcasting at Ebbets Field:  •  “"They’re tearing up the pea patch," Barber would inform his audience in Brooklyn, where there were precious few pea patches, but we …

Remember when blogging the debate meant you sat and typed out word for word (except you missed every second sentence) what people said like a bad dictaphonist? Here are my thoughts on the first Republican half of

Was they we?  •  “Modern humans may well have evolved from hardy Neanderthals who suffered through a dramatic cold spell that descended on Europe about 40,000 years ago, according to a new study that throws another coal into the already heated scientific debate about our origins. The report …

My favorite Canadian sports announcer passed away yesterday. Last winter Olympics he gave the curling coverage on US TV and people got it. I actually heard callers to Boston night talk radio asking for more curling coverage. If that isn't success, what is?

Channel surfing as I sipped Buckley's, I came across boxing on the CBC's French service last night - an entire night of championship boxing from the Molson Centre, home of the Montreal Canadians. It was like stepping back 30 years watching properly produced boxing on broadcast TV. Not a hint of …

Could there be any more embarrassing reason to maintain what used to be a worthy national institution until it got so boringly self important?  •  “"We do have some concerns about [the decision], notwithstanding fact that it happened on the French-language side," Ian Morrison, spokesman for … read more »

The other day Brooksie posted a review of Christie Blatchford's book Fifteen Days over at The Torch and it included this passage:  •  “The other notable chapter was the polar opposite to me: the one story that really sums up what this book is about, that distills the essence of this fine …

As I slip into radio silence here letting the Romanian manual spammers have their way for a few days, it is comforting to know that there is much more than me keeping you entertained. I would encourage you all to spend a few days with North Country Public Radio, the voice of my region. I am …