William M. Hartnett

You can barely make it out in this grainy picture I took last night through my windshield with my phone, but the Corvette’s license plate says MR BAD 7. Do you suppose the driver is the seventh-baddest dude in Florida, or that he owns six cars even badder than the Corvette?

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Profiting from death - Chi-Town Daily News
“Memo to publishers: If you want to be liked, respected and read in your community, stop viewing death as a profit center. For God’s sake, don’t try to upsell the bereaved when they contact you about an obit.”
(tags: newspapers obit)

Why They Called It the Manhattan Project - New York [...]

u got it, babe - ICHC?
Picture of a cute puppy. Everyone loves cute puppies.
(tags: ichc dogs)

End to rotation policy opens way for England World Cup bid - Guardian Unlimited Football
Gordon Brown: “The nation which gave football to the world deserves to have the greatest tournament back on these shores.” Not Gordon Brown: “So that we [...]

The title of this post comes from a line I was happy to see in a job listing for a municipal reporter at the Tribune-owned Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale. (This being South Florida, the full sentence actually is, “Spanish skills as well as knowledge of computer-assisted reporting are preferred.” Probably in that order.) As Ryan [...]

Go where your audience goes - Lucas Grindley
“Bottom line is newspapers can’t afford to use the “Field of Dreams” approach to Web design. “If you build it, they will come” is a fictional storyline, not a business model.”
(tags: newspapers preps)

Alive and unchecked - a wave of anti-Jewish hate - Guardian Unlimited Football
Ah yes, the beautiful [...]

Another semi-timely one here, given the news last week that Hearst is weighing a sale of the San Francisco Chronicle building. If you’re in the market for some San Francisco real estate mash your mouse on the picture below to do a little shopping. Virtual Earth/Live Maps, San Francisco Chronicle, etc.

And for a street-level view, [...]

This story in the NYT’s Week in Review section references an amazingly titled document from the National Security Agency: “Redacting with Confidence: How to Safely Publish Sanitized Reports Converted From Word to PDF.” No way I could resist a name like that. So, how does the NSA redact with confidence? Apparently, with the assistance of [...]

As a Florida alum and fan of Gators athletics I watch a lot of SEC football on CBS, which means I get a pretty big dose of Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson each fall. I’ve long thought Danielson’s broadcasting style is idiosyncratic, a bit like Dan Rather’s election-night “Ratherisms.” (”This race is hotter than the [...]

A dimmable CFL! What will they think of next? Hopefully, a dimmable CFL that doesn’t cost $12.

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I wurk carshow an buy new buhket! - ICHC?
Oh lolrus. Buhket not worth the indignity.
(tags: lolrus ichc)

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