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 [...]

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)

Mitchum is a new line of deodorant brought to you by Revlon, and I’ve been seeing their ads on subways in the past few months. I’m sure you’ll be seeing the ads soon, and if not, it’s on their website (link below). I thought the ads look awful and the packaging of the [...]

From the New York Times: His Way Meets a Highway Called Court, CEO of American Apparel, the “T-shirt and casual wear chain sometimes called an alternative Gap”, is now being charged with sexual harassment.
Among the allegations: using crude language and gestures, conducting job interviews in his underwear, ordering the hiring of women in whom he [...]

Is it me, or is there something wrong with this photo?
(from the Chicago Red Streak)

U.S. Embassy in Indonesia Closed After Threat - New York Times
The American embassy was closed today because of what officials would describe only as an unspecified security threat. But a Western counterterrorism official and a private security analyst said the decision was made after a diagram of the embassy and details of how to carry [...]