Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Just Curious on the Trademark-Protection Front
Um, so I was wondering why Google thinks it’s really cool that someone: Named their baby "Google" Created a website with the word "Google" in the domain name Created a logo that looks like the Google logo for their website that has the word Google in the domain name Serves Google Ads to generate revenue…
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Paul Harvey News & Comment
I listen to AM radio. And if I am travelling to work at the proper time (something that can never be assured), I hear the segment called "Paul Harvey News & Comment". Now Paul Harvey is not a young person (he was born in 1918), and he has a mellifluous yet ancient-sounding boom voice. Very…
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Halloween Plaza
Halloween Plaza Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here’s a look at Daley Plaza in Chicago. The fountain runs orange and there’s a haunted house in the background.
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Searching for John F. Burns
Here’s another in the “How I Use” series: Google Alerts. Over the last few months I have migrated the bulk of my news consumption and web research from Google to Yahoo!. In fact, my browser start page is now Yahoo! News, even though I was once a huge lover of the automaton Google News. I’ve…
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Annotating Judith Miller
The first definitive story from the New York Times on the Judith Miller/ Valerie Plame/ Scooter Libby situation is the perfect illustration of Annotated New York Times. Being such an NYT freak, I thought I would constantly be reading it all of the time, but I almost never look at it. Briefly, the Annotated NYT…