August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. It is also Jessie’s birthday and in honor of this auspicious occasion, I have compiled a number of stats about today: Notable Events: 1492 – The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic […]
I don’t remember how I ended up at the Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers site today and I really don’t care. Of course I loved it and poked around for a while. I even gained some more knowledge about my favorite yellow family that I felt like sharing. In the FAQ section, there is […]
As NASA’s foam problems continue (meaning that future shuttle launches are scratched after Discovery gets back), you may want to check out video of Tuesday’s shuttle launch courtesey of AOL (click on the “watch the launch” tab) because it took 2.5 years to get a shuttle back into space after the Columbia disaster and who […]
You are reading the 250th post on “We’re Going To Cover That In Phase 2.” In honor of this momentous occasion, which I believe would be technically its “sesqui-bicentennial” post (I’m not sure this is an actual word but centennial = 100, sesquicentennail = 150, and bicentennial = 200 so I think it is), I […]
Now this is getting just plain silly: First the Subservient Chicken, then the Sith Sense and now Coq Roq – damn I wish I worked on the Burger King interactive account! Coq Roq is the web site for a made-up band called “Fowl Mouth” – its a great flash site that advertises BK’s new Chicken […]
If you haven’t gone to my friend and co-worker Stephanie Klein’s blog (see the left nav as well) yet, you might be one of the few people left that hasn’t. She has gotten so popular that the NY Times wrote a feature article about Stephanie, her blog and her life, that can be found on […]
The New Yorker this week has a fantastic article by William Finnegan titled “The Terrorism Beat” about how the NYPD is defending our fair city, with or without the help of the Federal government. Believe it or not, it makes you feel a lot better about our city’s security (all things considered). I’m 100% voting […]
One year ago today, Congress unanimously declared that the horrors unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan — the mass slaughters, forced displacement, and coordinated rape campaigns — amounted to genocide. It seems as if almost everyone has either forgotten about it or thinks that the problem has been solved. For instance: During the entire […]
In honor of its 10th anniversary, Amazon has had celebrities deliver packages that involve them in some way to randomly selected lucky customers. For instance, Jason Alexander delivered Seinfeld season 1 through 4 to someone in Brentwood, California (where my brother-in-law and future sister-in-law live – maybe it was their building, it sort of looks […]
I received a MoveOn.org email spurring me to call a local PBS station and tell them that “I’m a big supporter of PBS and this station. CPB chairman Kenneth Tomlinson is demanding more right-wing programming on public broadcasting. Please keep his partisan spin off the air” or something like that. Since I agree and the […]