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Prevent a Hangover – Wired How-To Wiki
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Open a Champagne Bottle with a Saber – Wired How-To Wiki
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Clay-Pigeon Golf Shot
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Here’s a considerable feat, linked via Wired: a clay-pigeon golf shot. Another incredible golf challenge comes to us by way of the European Tour, which brought four of its members to the arid sands outside Dubai to see if anyone could hit a descending clay pigeon with a typical, iron-struck golf shot. After what seems…
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Dr. Sudoku Prescribes: A 12/24 Calcu-doku | Magazine | Wired.com
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Thomas Snyder (aka Dr. Sudoku) is a two-time World Sudoku Champion and five-time US Puzzle Champion, as well as the author of several books of puzzles. His puzzles are hand-crafted, with artistic themes, serving as a kind of “cure for the common sudoku.” Each week he posts a new puzzle on his blog, The Art…
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A Holiday Card From Google – WSJ.com
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World’s Smartest Dog Jesse performs Amazing Dog Tricks
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December’s Agenda
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Like most people, with just one month left in the year, I find that there’s a long task list ahead. Even if not every task will be completed this month, it’s worth taking stock. At FREE WHITEWATER, there’s more to write about Whitewater’s Innovation Center, tax incremental financing, and officials’ use of email, among other…
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Daily Bread for Whitewater, Wisconsin: 11-22-10
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Good morning, Whitewater’s forecast calls for a say of showers with a high temperature of sixty-two degrees. The City of Whitewater will hold a public meeting [Update] next week, 11/29 at 6 p.m. to present a draft of a lakes protection plan for Trippe and Cravath Lakes. The meeting agenda is available online. On this…
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La Crosse Tribune: Home with Foot-Deep Piles of Rats to be Demolished
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A lost cause even as a fixer-upper: A western Pennsylvania home will be demolished because it is so overrun with rats that they measure about a foot deep in spots….Officials will erect a perimeter around the home to try to prevent any rats that survive [extermination] from going into neighboring hopes. Best of luck –…
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Deekie the Monkey Allegedly Stealing Grapes
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People of Cleveland vs. LeBron James and the Nike Corporation
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Basketball great LeBron James left Cleveland for Miami, and disappointed countless Cleveland residents (and other fans). Perhaps he thought that one of his sponsors, the multibillion-dollar Nike Corporation, could rehabilitate his image with a new advertising campaign. It’s not that easy. Modern media have empowered ordinary people, and they’re able to produce videos as powerful,…
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The Carnation Makes a Comeback – WSJ.com
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If every flower carries a secret code (red roses stand for love, mums mean death) then carnations can probably be said to signify…cheap. Regarded as only suitable for sale in bodegas and grocery stores and primarily worn by pimply adolescents on middle-school dates, the carnation is a flower that is almost universally scorned. But dig…
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Top 400 Charities See Billions Less In Donations, Biggest Percentage Drop Ever Recorded
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A new ranking of the nations 400 biggest charities shows donations dropped by 11 percent overall last year as the Great Recession ended – the worst decline in 20 years since the Chronicle of Philanthropy began keeping a tally. See, Top 400 Charities See Billions Less In Donations, Biggest Percentage Drop Ever Recorded.
