ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA MySpace, NBC News and MSNBC ... . The search giant plans to “offer more content than anyone else,” not just Web pages but also news ... service on the high-speed networks of cable providers with which it already has carriage agreements [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 21:51:58

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Christmas

Our Christmas plans got changed this year at the last minute due to the weather ... drive down south to Marie's parents house. We were not going to leave until Christmas eve ... up turning around in Wilsonville with is about 30 minutes from our house on a normal day [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 21:53:00

TRAI Moots Concept Of “Other Service Provider” For Independent Services; Implications

In what is the most significant set of recommendations for the Mobile VAS and mobile content ecosystem yet, ... . They are not permitted to collect charges/ revenue for access/carriage charges related to telecom ... .  Implications: The key recommendation here is the separation of content from carriage. The carriage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 07:08:06

Floor-Plan Friday

Floor Plans in California, Georgia, and Arizona The following is a collection of floor plans that are currently available for purchase from home ... , Georgia. The Chastain home plan is a split bedroom ranch-style floor plan with four bedrooms, three ... builders in Georgia, Arizona, and California. The plans that we’ve listed below vary in size [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 20:34:26

Nothing New Under The Depression Sun

October 25, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis As the US falls into the same system that runs Japan, we have to recognize that the effects of the 0% system is not going to fix the US trade deficit. The Treasury is allowing all our dear, bankrupt banks to announce that they are going to the bankrupt Fed for funds [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 14:04:58

The Short, Unhappy Death of Leo Tolstoy (1910)

The world watched as Leo Tolstoy died today, and all because he had had it up to here with his wife ... Tolstoy. They grew estranged, and bitter arguments filled their country house, Yasnaya Polyana ... that I cannot act differently. My position in the house [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 17:44:11

Get lost

The fact that London taxi drivers need to pass a rigorous test to prove that they know how to get from A-B within ... to the ears of Hackney Carriage drivers everywhere. In addition to London’s labyrinthine layout [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 11:44:06

Live Blog: The Inauguration of Barack Obama

President Obama and the First Lady walking on Pennsylvania Avenue during his inaugural parade. (Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times)Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday and called on Americans to confront “our collective failure to make hard choices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 00:45:57

A Message to PUMA's

Obviously, it is not a happy time for any of us, at least with regard to politics, governance, and our hopes and dreams for this country ... Committee, aided and abetted by House Speaker Pelosi, cavalierly and callously disenfranchised two major [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 16:36:46

1979-1981 Ford Mustang

Marketers had put a Roman numeral on the 1974-1978 Ford Mustang II to emphasize just how different it was from previous Mustangs. For the same reason, they removed the suffix when they launched the new generation with the 1979 Ford Mustang. To drive home the point that this was a new Mustang with renewed spirit, they also [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:28:00

Media & Politics (one section only today)

Media & Politics (one section only today) 31-Dec-08 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Black Agenda Report From the U.S. Artist General, via email ZAPSAP DS POISON (DOUBLE STANDARD) The heart-bound venom of it Troubles the bloodstream like lips in the arc of a drinking fountain, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 18:21:29

NY-Senate: Much Ado About Nothing (Yet)

NY-Senate: Much Ado About Nothing (Yet) Caroline Kennedy listens to a reporter's question during a news conference at City Hall in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. Kennedy is campaigning for the open Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Don Heupel) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 23:00:00

A Visit to the Historic Pullman District

After being appropriately prepped as a result of our visit to the Chicago Cultural Center we decided to head off yesterday to visit the Pullman ... Pullman and his ambitious plans for his development of a model community, a total environment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 07:19:53

No. 185 - (Site of) President's House

(Site of) President’s House1912 – Octavius Morgan7851 Budlong Avenue – mapDeclared: 4/19/78What’s the deal? This is the third Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in a row about which I can only speak in the past tense. Not only that, pictures of it are few and far between [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 04:59:00

Just Sheds: Summer Sheds

What with the evenings drawing in and the end of our Summer in the UK, ... in their My Girlies Summer House after their Dad built it for them. I Built summerhouse just after ... it before a became ill. i had no Plans all in my head (dont look that bad for in my head LOL) Very [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 06:31:34

Missed Opportunities

I’ve had a while to think about this essay, and of all the possible things I might want to write – here’s the thing, I don’t blog, ... in that, I have to admit. So, I am a hack. By that I mean like the hackney carriage that drives [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 15:58:44

The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money #1

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman remembered for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Part 1 is below. The twenty other parts will be published daily [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 18:38:18

Hott Link: She’s Baaaaack

Taste of the Five Boroughs event in New York yesterday, where we met up with the judges and some chef’testants from the past. ( ... Carriage House in Fire Island, and I’m voting him most likely to get drunk and start fights [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 19:41:39

AB Is Live Blogging Election Day!!!

I'll be "live blogging" periodically throughout the day with my observations from the polls, the latest voter suppression efforts, ... , hugs, and tears all around the house! Gimme a sec to digest all this. I am going outside the dance [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 05:36:01

Top 83 Tweets of 2008

I’m sure that, fairly soon, as Twitter, the microblogging service, grows and becomes more widely used and recognised, ... I’ve got to go on a carriage ride through Highland Park tonight with 4 kids and 3 lawyers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:54:58

Carriage House, revisited

In the December 2008 issue of 'This Old House' magazine is one of the most elegant conversions I've ever seen! A former 1916 Carriage House ( ... ? They built in the walls with insulation and paneling. So beautiful!!The library at the front of the house [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 05:05:00

Worlds rarest 1st Generation Monte Carlo

Worlds rarest 1st Generation Monte Carlo 0 | January 1st, 2009 | Posted in General Information Well we might as well start the new year off with a little Monte Carlo Trivia. (H/T to the folks at FGMCC who brought this stunning car to my attention with this discussion ) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 17:56:22

House and Garden

House and Garden October 14th, 2008 This morning we had a meeting with the architect, the landscape designer, the gardener, the Sherpa and Beloved ... that lead you to the different areas. A Victorian greenhouse that serves as the link between the garage [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 20:52:22

Luxury Home Plan Friday

Welcome to New Home Section’s Floor Plan Friday post, where we like to take a moment to share various home plans that home builders are currently offering to buyers. Today’s post is focused on luxury home floor plans located in Florida, Arizona [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 02:07:20

Review: Diamond Duo (Texas Fortunes Book 1) by Marcia Gruver (FIRST WildCard Tour)

Title: Diamond Duo (Texas Fortunes Book 1) Author: Marcia Gruver Pages: 288 Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc (October 1, 2008) ... heart? Thad is more than smitten with Bertha. But his father plans to send him away to military [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 22:02:53

Poe's 200th Birthday- Philly vs Balti- Jan. 19, 2009

Pick a major U.S. East Coast city at random and you're likely to find a 200th birthday celebration for Edgar Allan Poe ... ."Every city has its claim to fame with Poe," said Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 21:22:00

Dr. Stephen R. Keister : 'Citizens, There Is No Time to Lose'

Leaping on a table, a pistol in each hand, Camille Desmoulins cried, 'To the Bastille ... an aristocrat's carriage overran a small Parisian waif without slowing down or stopping. The result [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 21:50:00

Welcome to our first installment of An Entirely Gratuitous Selwick Christmas Novella (hmm, really must think of a catchier title) ... were holding open house for Christmas Eve [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 17:25:42

The Most Freak and Amazing Travel Destination

Kokopelli’s Cave - Farmington, New Mexico, U.S.A.Wilderness cave dwelling, ... house set 13 metres above a Swedish public park, with rope ladder access only. The Woodpecker hotel [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 14:00:00

Merry Christmas to one and all!

This last month has been an emotional roller coaster ... the night.As Christmas approached plans were made to go to town to meet the train – Margie was coming [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 00:51:00

The hardest Blog I have ever written

The holiday began with the inevitable Black family crisis. I had pre-ordered the taxi, confirming that we needed ski carriage. 5:30 am arrived with no sign of the taxi – I gave it ten minutes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 07:04:00

The Final Problem: A Sherlock Holmes Story

Here is an important Sherlock Holmes Story from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Final Problem" that appeared in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, ... importance as this one from The Return of Sherlock Holmes, read "The Adventure of the Empty House [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 15:52:00

This Day, January 20, In Jewish History

January 20 In Jewish History1667: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, ... to a son.1902: Herzl writes to Israel Zangwill and Joseph Cowen and describes the financial plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 23:25:00

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