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- ICA Boston
IMG_2306, by droush16. It looks like the new ICA on the South Boston waterfront has to delay it's September opening: In interviews yesterday, ICA officials, architect Ricardo Scofidio, and construction company manager John Macomber said that the remaining work was not major. Among the pending tasks -- termed �minutiae� by one ICA trustee -- was the need to test the building's ticket counter and climate control system. [via]... - Weekly Dig Redesign
I look forward to picking up the new Dig every Wednesday morning while I’m in line for coffee at Herrell’s. It’s the only readable “alt” weekly I’ve ever come across - anywhere. And finally, the Dig has a new website to match their print offering. There is a daily blog, my favorite column Media Farm, a round-up of local events in the right column. Also, you may subscribe via a variety of RSS feeds.... - The New NYTimes.com
The New York Times launched a modest redesign over the weekend, and it does a great job of presenting large amounts of information in a coherent, organized way. Khoi has the details on his weblog: I think it�s a sterling piece of work, a great example of how to evolve a user experience rather than reinvent it: the best reaction it could receive from readers (those not among that vanishingly small subset of the general populace who can be called �design savvy�) would be something along the lines of �The new design looks just like the old design.� That... - Waitin' Tables
Can’t help but pass along this Remainder from Jason Kottke - NY Times food critic Frank Bruni spends a week “undercover” as a waiter at a [Cambridge] restaurant. In the end, he realizes the hell that is being a waiter: trying to be fluent in the menu and the food, calm in the face of chaos, patient in the presence of rudeness, available when diners want that, invisible when they don’t. It’s a lot, and I should remember that. Does this realization dampen his dining expectations? Nope: I’d still like frequent water refills. And a martini from hell. Straight up.... - Scooterist killed in Boston
I am shocked and horrified by a report in the Globe today, that a Scooterist was killed last night in a collision with a truck: Police were searching last night for the driver of a tractor trailer suspected of striking, dragging, and killing an 18-year-old man riding a motor scooter at the Massachusetts Avenue onramp to the Massachusetts Turnpike. After the impact, the truck continued down the ramp, taking the scooter and its rider with it, police said. Both were found at the bottom of the ramp, which was closed for several hours after the accident, police said. Even more... - The End of The Connection, Follow-up
A follow-up on the cancellation of The Connection, the Boston Phoenix’s Mark Jurkowitz has a fascinating interview with ex-host Dick Gordon. I almost feel bad for the guy. (page 2 isn’t linked as of now…) I for one am still waiting for Bostonist to post a word about this… Public Radio scandals are like celebrity news in this town!... - Do Linguists Have Fun, too?
Fresh Air is getting stale ok, some random stranger person called me on my cell phone to tell me that NPR's Fresh Air was doing a piece on blogging. (listen in Real Audio) This Nunberg guy's pieces always have this strange fatalistic tone to them-- as if the evolution of language over the years has specifically contributed to the debasement of civilization. err something. But then, as if he hadn't spent the past two and a half minutes ripping up whatever subject he's talking about, he always has some hopeful thought for the future of such-and-such... you get the sense... - NewsBlogger is Back! There is
NewsBlogger is Back! There is this whale trapped on a fishing line out in the waters off the cape -- and because of weather or whatever, they have been unable to free it. So, they've been shooting it full of pain killers-- hoping that it will go unconsious, so they can help it out. I ask, how many drugs does it take to subdue a whale?... - Slate has a story today
Slate has a story today about the new diet coke ad campaign-- the one narrated (bizarrely) by Ben Affleck, where he talks about his new (commercial) wife and how she stopped wearing sexy underwear. The whole coke campaign (including coke & diet coke commercials) has been an amazing success. Pepsi is still selling their sugary nonsense to 12-year-old boy-band fans-- while coke is taking chances and hitting the mark. Jacob Dylan-- now that's a media dream. (oh, and so is Ben Affleck, though I can't fathom why)... - Salon self-promotion
Salon is doing a little bit of self-promotion on their cover story today about media consolidation online. The article focuses on the troubles independent publishers are facing in the shadows of AOL, Microsoft, Disney & Viacom. But there was an interesting passage concerning Microsoft's Windows XP: As Microsoft readies the next mass-market version of Windows XP, provocative tidbits of its "integrations" have surfaced. The most outrageous gambit is a little innovation known as Smart Tags -- a tool that automatically adds new links to documents. You don't choose where on the Internet these links point to; Microsoft does. In Windows... - Presley and Harry Potter
Presley has been reading the Harry Potter books lately, (with great enjoyment i might add). Slate has a funny article in their culturebox, about fantasy writers.... - There have been a couple
There have been a couple of good articles coming to the defense of Christopher Lydon, host of the Connection, over his recent contract battles. Here is one reason to value this man-- he has the moral courage to stand up to John Silber, and challege him on his terms. Here is a passage from the Globe: In a remarkable 1990 interview with incendiary gubernatorial candidate John Silber, Lydon stopped the then-Boston University president in his tracks by comparing him to rap group Public Enemy and suggesting that his message ''pushed right up to the edge of revolutionism, sexism, sometimes even... - The New Yorker. Online?
has conde' nast finally decided to go ahead with an online version of The New Yorker magazine?...
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