City Taxi Agency Approves Use of Six Hybrid Models, from the New York Times. What has taken the city so long? Concerns for leg room.
Before they met yesterday morning, the commissioners tested several of the vehicles, getting in the rear and front passenger seats and even behind the steering wheels. Peter Schenkman, assistant [...]

Ben Saunders, a 27 year-old adventurer, recently announced his next expedition: an 1800-mile unsupported (i.e. Ben and his adventure mate, Tony Haile, will carry everything they need with them) journey from a hut at the edge of Antartica to the South Pole and back. It will re-trace the route Robert Falcon and his expedition [...]

Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites
The Google marketing/PR department has a good sense of humor as we can see from this frequently asked question:
Is Google Moon a result of your Copernicus initiative?
Glad you asked, and yes, the development of our lunar hosting and research center continues apace. We usually don’t announce future products in advance, [...]

From the Chicago Tribune,
Psychopaths are people who are amoral, ruthless, pathologically selfish and utterly unburdened by qualms of conscience. You find a lot of these folks in prisons. You can also find them in corporate boardrooms…
That explains a lot… (link gleaned from The Morning News)

I was looking on Technorati to see if there’s any blogs on QuickBooks, the worse software we must use for our business. Then I came across a bunch of results similar to this junk. How do I flag this page? This problem isn’t so uncommon, but it’s the first time it’s getting [...]

I’ve been working with the Time class in Ruby today, and I’m finding some “quirks” that I can’t understand. For example, a very simple thing I’m trying to do is to print out the day of a month: let’s say for July 4th, I want “4″. And let’s say my_time is our time [...]

Some good news from our clients,
DINO, the Italian restaurant whose identity we helped designed, has opened two weeks ago and just got some good press on the Washington Post.
Carl Tanner, the opera singer whose website we designed and built, is appearing on The Early Show on Wednesday, July 20th at 8:36 AM.
Last but not least, [...]