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Archive for March, 2006
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Presidential suites are for prestige By Ian Mylchreest And they are also for one more thing, reports New York Times: Marketing.
The paper reports that the “presidential suite” started with Ulysses S. Grant seeking such a suite on a visit to New York and that every president since Herbert Hoover has slept in the Waldorf Towers presidential suite. Companies rent the ultraluxurious penthouses for [...]
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Supremes to hear patent case By Ian Mylchreest The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case tomorrow that pits some of the biggest corporations in the country against one another, reports the New York Times. The case involves eBay and a patent owner who won an injunction from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a court that has made a [...]
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Get ready for the big boom By Ian Mylchreest If you need a primer on the afterlife of the dot.com boom, take a look at Fast Company, where Adam Penenberg reviews the long history of people who did not understand innovation and what has always happened after the first boom and bust.
He has numerous examples of people who said the phone was a toy [...]
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Great bods are back By Len Butcher Let’s hear it for women with great bodies. Despite all the pressure put on women, particularly those in the entertainment industry, to look anorexic, most of the women in the Top 10 of FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women†are bodies that you know enjoy a pizza or some Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
Blonde actress [...]
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Monday, March 27, 2006 We’ve got your self-importance right here! By Steve Sebelius We have to confess, since we first discovered the Review-Journal’s readers tend to vote for Taco Bell for Best Taco and Olive Garden for Best Italian Restaurant, we hardly bother to read the “Best of Las Vegas” tabloid that comes out around this time every year. And while we skimmed some entries, it took an [...]
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Monday, March 27, 2006 Felony conversion in the first degree By Steve Sebelius ABSTRACT: Today on Various Things & Stuff, we muse about the nature of Islamic (and Christian) fascism, and then dine on a serving of delicious peanut-butter-flavored Quick Hits!
We’re told Islam is a religion of peace, but judging from some weekend stories, for some of its hard-core adherents, it’s more like a religion of pieces. [...]
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Monday, March 27, 2006 Wired up for Yucca hearing By Ian Mylchreest The federal government is still building a state-of-the-art hearing room for multiple lawyers, witnesses and judges in Bethesda, Md. and Las Vegas, reports the New York Times. The system may not be needed until 2008 but the administrative judges hearing the case say the new computerized hearing room will speed things up and help prevent [...]
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Sunday, March 26, 2006 Viewers demand more laughs By Len Butcher
Read something interesting the other day. Not surprising, just interesting. Seems that people who like television comedy are stuck in a time warp. The reason? Simple. They’re watching quality sitcoms from the past, on reruns, more than they are those now running on regular programming.
Shows like Seinfeld, Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond are [...]
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Friday, March 24, 2006 Debate! Debate! Debate! By Steve Sebelius No clear winner or loser emerged from the Democratic gubernatorial debate on Face to Face with Jon Ralston, taped this morning. (The program airs in two parts, the first today and the second on Monday. Our thanks to the kind folks at Face to Face for the invitation to cover it live.)
But there were [...]
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Friday, March 24, 2006 New rules to limit business entertainment By Ian Mylchreest Years ago some New York-area brokers sued their companies for tolerating a frat house atmosphere in the workplace but the problems persist among dealmakers and so securities industry regulators are poised to re-write the rules, reports USA Today. The NASD and the New York Stock Exchange have both proposed rules to force firms to [...]
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