Firefighter Donald Herbert suddenly became lucid Saturday after living in an unresponsive state for 10 years.
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Monthly Archives: May 2005
Cybersquatting
Interesting local cybersquatting:
The progressive biweekly newspaper The Madison Observer accused its conservative counterpart The Mendota Beacon Wednesday of “cybersquatting,” or anonymously buying two web domains similar to The Madison Observer’s and redirecting those sites to The Mendota Beacon’s website.
State Architecture Awards
A high-tech Milwaukee high school, a sleek meeting center for local brewery employees, a playful aquatic center near Madison and a sculptor’s studio in Switzerland all won top honors Wednesday for architects practicing in Wisconsin from Wisconsin AIA, a society of the American Institute of Architects.
The awards were among 10 presented at the society’s 51st annual convention, held this year at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison.
“There are moments when a perfect storm happens and you are able to put together a terrific project,” the design awards jury said. “The award-winning projects have been pushed over the edge into extraordinary moments of architecture and design excellence.”
Mossberg: Guide to using RSS
Walt Mossberg provides a useful overview of RSS (Really Simple Syndication), a method to scan sites quickly. (I use a wonderful OS X RSS newsreader called NetNewsWire). Local sites that provide RSS feeds include:
Apple’s latest OS, 10.4 has a handy built in RSS subscription feature.
Whither GM Janesville?
Business Week disects GM’s travails, and includes a “rumor” that one of their full size SUV plants will close (one of those is Janesville).
Pre-Surgery Safety Checks
patients awaiting surgery are subjects of various questions and checklists. The queries get redundant, but the procedure is akin to the aviation industry’s safety precautions.
LA Freeways
Verlyn Klinkenborg has also been driving LA’s freeways recently. He disects the psychology of the recent shootings. I posted some photos and notes from my recent drive on those same freeways.
Indio’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
iTunes features a 78 song playlist and Kelefa Sanneh summarizes the music at the recent Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
Municipal Broadband & Wireless Project Map
Very useful interactive map that includes project and legislative information. Wisconsin comparatively, has very little activity, despite recent stories that we are at the “center of the wired world”.
Media Change: Rosen Connects the dots
Jay Rosen does quite a job connecting the advertising, authority/credibility and newspaper circulation dots between LA, Northern Virginia, Milwaukee and Dallas. Hugh Hewitt’s speech on circulation and advertising is well worth reading. Check it out.
Here’s a copy of the actual complaint (32K PDF)
Somewhat related, the Wisconsin State Journal (AP & WSJ Staff), while covering the Milwaukee Journal circulation lawsuit, mentions that “March 31, 2004, indicates that “other paid sales” accounted for 4.3 percent of the papers’ combined daily circulation and 1.5 percent of Sunday circulation.”
We live in interesting times.