TGIF: A good Friday, everybody. Boston’s Bijou Theatre became the first American playhouse fully lit by electricity on this date in 1882. Thomas Edison installed personally. More recently, Angry Birds went…
It’s Monday: A great start of the week, everybody and welcome new subscribers, including Stephen and Steven, Patrick, Kris, 5005287, and many others. Glad to have you aboard. It’s the 74th…
TGIF: A great Friday to everybody and welcome new readers. It’s Dec. 4, National Faux Fur Day. Not sure how to celebrate that, but have at it. The first Whopper…
It’s Monday: A great start to the week everybody and welcome new readers, including John, Brian, Doug, Nicki, Lorraine and Wendy. It’s Cyber Monday, a term coined in 2007 by National…
It’s Monday: Time to start worrying about what you’re drinking on Thursday. Riesling? Certainly. Pinot Noir? Yes, if you’re not serving anything with marshmallows on it. If so, you’re better off…
TGIF: A good Friday, everyone and a special welcome to new readers. Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released on this day in 1985. Joe Walsh has made it to 68. Go West,…
Post Paris Not included in the 350 or so injured in Friday night’s terrorist attacks in Paris are potentially hundreds more who survived without physical harm but will likely begin…
Pitch slapped: There’s been mumbling about crazy valuations in the tech arena for months now, but the bubble began to take real shape this week as Boston-based mutual fund giant Fidelity…
The Great Northeast Blackout occurred 50 years ago today, plunging 30 million people into darkness and trapping 800,000 New Yorkers in the subway. The outage, which began at 5:16 p.m. – it lasted…
Russian right over: The local daily has been urging Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov to come by and chat with Nassau County officials now that the Russian billionaire has taken a controlling…
Yes, it’s Monday: A good start to the week everyone, and a special welcome to new readers, including Kirk, Erin, Barry, Ethan, Bob, Russell, Neela, Ron, the Georges, Sal, Carol, Arnold,…
TGIF: A great Friday everybody and welcome new readers. It’s National Candy Corn Day, on which we celebrate the lasting achievement of George Renninger of Philly’s Wunderle Candy Co. in 1880…
TOP O’ THE WEEK: A great Monday, everybody and welcome new readers Keith, John, the Michaels, Mark, Erin, Bob, Flo, Bonnie, Sean and more. Oh, and an incoming sponsor, the Islip…
TGIF: A good Friday everybody and welcome new readers. It’s Oct. 23, on which we celebrate Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro, who decreed that a “mole” of any substance has the same…
ISOTOPIA: The Nuclear Science Advisory Committee is pretty much what it sounds like – a group of scientists that advises the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation on ways…