by David | Jun 1, 2008 | eating, media, transportation
It happens a couple of times a year. Some ad salesman makes it through the phone screen into the ear of an impressionable person and suddenly we’re discussing advertising with in-flight magazines or worse yet, in-flight audio infotainment. Although the...
by David | May 21, 2008 | science!, transportation
From the excellent virtual pages of Strange Maps comes this ducky item. On January 10 [1992], a container holding almost 29,000 plastic bath toys spills off a cargo ship into the middle of the Pacific Ocean and breaks open. The unsinkable toys, which were en route...
by David | Apr 26, 2008 | culture, urbanism
Why is there a giant duck outside Cambridge City Hall right now? A. Cambridge opens its gates to admit the Trojan Duck B. A giant rubber duck admonishes Cantabrigians to reduce litter to keep local waters clean C. The city of Cambridge finally recognizes Duck Day as a...
by David | Apr 9, 2008 | eating
You think I’m making this up? Check the menu, and the photo evidence from my bud RoninOtter’s photostream: Kaffir limeduck salad at Oishii. Mixed greens and shredded duck with pine nuts and mustard jalapeno and kaffir lime vinagrette. Yum. We were seated...
by David | Nov 11, 2007 | culture, eating, media, technology
As we approach Thanksgiving season, there’s much talk of poultry, from the traditionally pardoned presidential turkey to the migration of Canada Geese to the ever trendy and and labor-intensive turducken to that excellent low-cholesterol portmanteau, torfurkey....
