I think HBO can probably do this better than anyone else. And it’s the first “must see” I’ve come across on HBO since The Wire. Opening the Vault on the Financial Crisis
Retiring by stealth
Robert MacNeil on Jim Lehrer’s retirement from the NewsHour. Here’s a link to the story. Also, the entire hour from Friday, May 13. Skip ahead to the 48-minute mark to see MacNeil deliver it. It’s worth the effort. Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour.
You may have a refund!
Third party aggregators take a beating sometimes. American Airlines, for instance, just took its reservations access away from Orbitz and Expedia and the like, attempting to get the genie of comparison shopping on one easy site back into the proverbial bottle. Southwest on the other hand, has never allowed anyone…
Move over, Farmville
This article in FastCompany today caught my attention, and I went to visit the website. Today happens to be the first “pick up” day of the new season for my Goat Lady Dairy CSA (Consumer Supported Agriculture). For anyone unfamiliar with this, many local farms now offer CSAs, by which “members” pay for…
The spirit of Donald Ross restores No. 2
What’s the big idea? “Sometimes you have to look back to see what’s ahead.” A “best guess” paraphrase of Ben Crenshaw’s quote about the restoration of Pinehurst No. 2. Here’s a very good news/review from press day. I found this on GolfStuffWeLike.
A golf story times two
A friend sent me a link to this. Usually it’s a naked cat singing the Burmese national anthem … or something. But this story about golf in Mumbai is quite interesting and beautifully told.
May I borrow your car?
What’s the big idea? Moving to a post-consumer mentality and a sharing economy. I was captivated by a long-form read in FastCompany yesterday: The Sharing Economy by Danielle Sacks. My car sits in our driveway more than 95% of my waking hours. Why do I own a battery-powered drill if…
Polar Bears to Penguins
Anne Cassity reports: “My good friend’s son is on a biking trip with his girlfriend … from Alaska to Argentina.” Both the blog and the travel journal are wonderful, and you can lose yourself here for hours. Warning: You’ll recognize just how soft and, yes, uninteresting you are when you…
What great fun this will be
The “Life in a Day” trailer. Perhaps we’re all filmmakers now, but let’s give the editors a lot of the credit here.
The movie is about this, but the story is about that
What’s the big idea? Using a seemingly random single event as the vehicle for telling a more important story. That’s how Sidney Lumet, who died this week, described Dog Day Afternoon. In many ways, he says, the movie is about coming out, a transexual looking for the courage to be…
Only 10 songs
My music collection isn’t nearly as extensive as Jack’s. And I grow tired – fast – of lists; the top 10 of this or that bores me. On the other hand, I try to include a 50-minute walk in my every day, at least all those days I’m not getting…
Saturday dreamin’
Wonderful little narrated film, “Spirals,” about a bookstore in Greece. “But it happened. And there it still is: From a little core of naivete, a spiral of names over the shop door just grows and grows.”
The Force is still with us
What’s up with all the Star Wars references popping up in advertising this year? There was that ridiculously adorable Volkswagen spot from the Super Bowl and now this: Coincidence, or just part of a larger, more nefarious plan?
The employee is driving workplace innovation
“It is important to note that the adoption of … new technologies hasn’t happened as a matter of policy from the get-go or as a result of conscious thought and foresight by the IT department. It has happened in stealth, with a few employees adopting and adapting … new technologies…
The magic washing machine
What’s the big idea? Making statistics and facts and data tell a story. After finding one Hans Rosling video, I went looking for others. Some people have a persuasive manner. Others have the facts and allow them to be persuasive. Too few put both to work at the same time….