William M. Hartnett

Penny Foolish - New York Times
“Telling Burger King to pay an extra penny for tomatoes and provide a decent wage to migrant workers would hardly bankrupt the company.”
(tags: food nyt labor)

Knight News Challenge, round 2 - mattwaite.com
“Most news sites online now … have been charitably described as a giant ball of mud … My own [...]

CNBC creates daily report on housing - Talking Biz News
“Business news cable network CNBC announced Wednesday that it is expanding its coverage of the housing market with a daily report called ‘The Home Front.’”
(tags: real-estate television cnbc)

Fat Boys and Dreamliners, but No Mustangs? - Wheels/New York Times
“American cars have for years been little more than [...]

Everyone has no doubt heard by now that Will Sullivan is leaving us at The Palm Beach Post to become the Interactive Director of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. (See my comment on his post announcing the move for my true thoughts about the dude. It’s all true, every shocking detail. Seriously.) Good news for them, [...]

Mark Your Calendars: 787 Maiden Flight March 31 - FlightBlogger
“After poking around a bit, this blogger has learned that this date for first flight date comes from a very senior source close to the 787 program. Of course, this date is all dependent on the late March weather conditions in Everett.”
(tags: 787 boeing aerospace)

Embedding Virtual [...]

Howard Owens touched on an issue I’ve thought about quite a bit lately: Outsourcing of key functions in the newspaper industry. The dangers of over-enthusiastically embracing vendors spread far beyond the specific instance that is the topic of Owens’ post, however. By outsourcing so many of our most important functions, we surrender our expertise in [...]

Via Cheezburger comes this amazing piece of indescribable awesomeness. As one YouTube commenter pointed out, it looks better than season six.

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Trounces Vista In Speed Tests - Compiler/Wired.com
“Although neither is available to the public yet, earlier reports suggest that upcoming service pack releases for XP and Vista have an unintended result - they make XP ‘considerably faster’ than the much touted Vista.”
(tags: microsoft windows vista xp)

Has anyone seen mah staplr? - [...]

We’re taking a quick trip up the coast this week to have a look at Florida Today, the hometown paper of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, in Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Click the picture to map-fiddle at your own pace.

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Class Conflict on the Airlines - New York Times
“The fact is that airlines … have realized that they really don’t have to cater to economy passengers - most of whom are booking on price alone, and who increasingly have no real airline loyalty - because the cost of doing so would never be worth it [...]

Neighborhood of the week is Mariner Sands in Hobe Sound, Martin County.
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