William M. Hartnett

I’ve been doing quite a bit of packing the past few days in preparation for the big move into our new house, but have nevertheless had an unexpectedly satisfying weekend thanks to my good friend the Interwebnet. Follow along after the jump if you’re interested in an extended glimpse into my brain.

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Neighborhood of the week is Admirals Cove in Jupiter.
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Ever. And I’ve seen more than a few in my day. Seriously, I love this video.

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> Hilton will do more time than most, analysis finds (LAT)
(Via IRE’s Extra! Extra!)
The Los Angeles Times finds that if Paris Hilton stays locked up for 23 days of her 45-day sentence, she’ll have done more time than 80 percent of offenders in similar circumstances. (A drunk driving arrest followed by a probation violation [...]

We’re moving in a few weeks and trying to decide whether to cancel our Sunday-only home delivery subscription to The New York Times. We’ve kept it this long mainly for the magazines, but it seems a bit silly to pay $27 a month to have all those other sections delivered, too. I genuinely prefer to [...]

> Don Herbert, 89; TV’s ‘Mr. Wizard’ taught science to young baby boomers (LAT)
I’m a little embarassed that the first time I saw Mr. Wizard’s real name, Don Herbert, was in his obituary, but that just goes to show how memorable he was in his TV persona. Obviously, I never saw any of his original [...]

The beta label gets dropped from the new Google Analytics interface, new features are added, and hourly reporting makes a welcome, long overdue return. Read all about it at the official GA blog: You Asked For it, You Got It. New Features Added to Google Analytics. Now I can finally stop using the old interface [...]

Derek Willis proposes an intriguing method to aggregate and highlight the news biz’s best enterprise and public service work: Finding Enterprise Reporting. Let’s not let this one languish on the pile of other forward-thinking ideas never acted upon simply because it requires a relatively minor bit of industry cooperation. This is a discussion worth continuing.

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