Mario versus Pac Man
by What happens when 1980s video game icons collide?:
Year: 2010
In Praise of Thistle Hill Farm Cheese
Last week the Wall Street Journal featured an ex-lawyer in its Second Acts column: A Lawyer’s Life Turns to Cheese. I’m a lawyer and I …
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is Law & Order: Sweden
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy comes to a grinding halt with the The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. I really enjoyed the cold, dark, Swedish …
Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition For Three Remaining Subscribers
From the Onion: Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition For Three Remaining Subscribers There is even a reference to Newton at the end.
Scary Guatemalan Sinkhole
When I first saw this picture, I thought it was fake: It appears to be real. Street view of the sinkhole Other views of the …
Book Review: Mixed Blood
Roger Smith has written a gritty, violent thriller full of deeply-flawed people trapped in bad luck and the violence of Cape Town, South Africa. Some …
The Girl Who Played With Fire
If you liked The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, then you should like this book. Mikael Blomkvist, the intrepid reporter is back. This time the …
Combining Video Games and LEGO
Combine LEGO Bricks and the guts of a video game console and what do you get? Read about this great project in my latest post …
Great Video of the Iceland Volcano
Ever since the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland wrecked my European vacation (see Doug versus The Volcano), I have been a bit obsessed with the volcano’s …
Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches
Space shuttle Atlantis soared into orbit from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the STS-132 mission to the International Space …
The Next Disaster?
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Videos from the Deepwater Horizon Spill
The US Coast Guard has published a few videos showing the underwater efforts to stop the gushing oil. Here is the oil and gas stream …
Bike Newton 3rd annual Rally & Friends and Family Ride
This Sunday, May is the 3rd annual Rally & Friends and Family Ride for Bike Newton from 12 to 3. At Newton City Hall there …
May the Fourth, be with you
It’s Star Wars day! Jib Jab partnered up with LucasFilm so that you put yourself in a Star Wars movie. Here is me as Luke …
Sleepless Will Keep You Up at Night
Imagine if the recent Great Panic financial crisis of 2008 was accompanied by a realization that an illness had spread across the population. On top …
The Strangler and my Kindle
In his second crime novel, William Landay weaves together the story of three brothers, the death of their policeman father, Boston’s urban renewal projects, and …
Privatizing NASA
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Doug versus The Volcano
The volcano won the first battle. Last week, we were supposed to have a long-planned vacation to Belgium. On Thursday morning the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted …
Blowing up Texas Stadium
Sure the view of the Texas Stadium implosion was cool from the outside. An 11-year-old named Casey Rogers, the winner of a local essay-writing contest, …
Love Your iPad, but will it blend?
That is what Blendtec wanted to know: [Don’t try this at home.] Other great Blendtec videos/