Archive for February, 2004

In his 1992 Presidential bid, Ross Perot famously claimed that giant sucking sound you here is jobs leaving the U.S. for Mexico. And now Perot’s Texas-based Perot Systems is outsourcing 3,500 jobs to India.

Dear Nanny, I made myself a piece of toast with cottage cheese this morning and I thought of you. In case you want to read more, this was a recent entry from Lisa Whelchel’s blog. Oh come on, don’t act like you don’t know who that is.

If you can’t be in New York before the show closes March 8, 2004, then checkout the great new flash site for the Kiki Smith exhibition at MoMA. The site’s got a nice interface and a great little zoom tool for getting a closer look at the works.

Maybe it’s this springtime weather we’re having already, but I feel like I really gotta clean up around here. Air things out.

From the nation’s most selective four-year institution, Electoral College shirts. There are caps too.

Everybody’s got a blog these days. Even Jimmy Carter. Right now he’s blogging from Togo, Ghana, and Mali.

Two Cubans were caught by the U.S. Coast Guard as they piloted a 1959 Buick to Florida.

At first the Mississippi seemed to recede from its banks, and its waters gathering up like a mountain, leaving for the moment many boats, which were here on their way to New Orleans, on bare sand, in which time the poor sailors made their escape from them. Eliza Bryan’s description of the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquake.

Francis Joyon crushed the solo non-stop record by 20 days, sailing 27,150 miles around the world in 72 days, 22 hours and 54 minutes.

In case you were in the john and missed one. All the 2004 Superbowl Ads are available on the web. I totally missed the

Sure enough, there are more chemicals in the water today. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission added ammonia to the drinking water.

Create your own visited states map or write about it on the open travel guide.

MoMA’s doing a thorough restoration of Pablo Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The elaborate process is on the web.