Boston Pop Underground’s Tuesday Night Cabaret with Mike Viola at the Paradise Lounge
Andrea Kremer put together a magical night of pop delights for the Tuesday Night Cabaret at the Paradise Lounge. Mike Viola of the Candy Butchers hosted the evening and was accompanied by his pal Todd Foulsham on drums. Gordon Wright from Fooled by April performed a short set and then was joined by ...
Airwaves Music Festival in October
Just for fun, I tried to set up something at the new drop cash website last night but it didn't work so well (on Safari, IE and Camino on my iBook G4 running OSX). Everytime I logged in to my TypeKey account, it looped back to drop cash's homepage, asking me to login to ......
The right kind of conspiring
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words 'make' and...
A volunteer’s perspective of the 2004 DNC Convention in Boston
[Jesse James Garrett, Jason Shellen and Rebecca Blood at the Speaker Pelosi.com/DCCC Blogger Bash] Longtime web writer/blogger Rebecca Blood and her husband Jesse James Garrett traveled to Boston from California to volunteer at the 2004 DNC Convention. Read about their adventure. [via Jessamyn]
Do It Yourself Event Planning
I'm at Tealuxe in Harvard Square conspiring with Peter Caputa of WhizSpark. They've got a web company that helps you publish and promote your own events. Seems nifty. I might use it for the social gatherings I host ala sooz.com, Free Agent Boston events and maybe syndicated events ala Exploit Boston! Here's ...
Multimap.com: Online maps to everywhere
I stumbled across multipmap.com when I was looking for an easy way to figure out the ICBM coordinates for my new apartment to update my geourl info. Along with coordinates they also provide maps for spots around the world. The directions seem to be for Great Britain only.
MIT Artists Behind the Desk
Founded in 1987, The MIT Artists Behind the Desk showcases the creative talent of staff at MIT in the visual, literary and performing arts. They're conspiring on an exquisite corpse project that will feature large scale drawings hanging in a newly renovated Athena cluster on campus (W20-575). The Fall lunchtime performance series starts ...
The Apologetic Burglar
A friend's apartment was broken into Friday afternoon while he was home. He heard someone at the door and figured it was one of his roommates coming home. A few minutes later he left his room to go out to say hi and ran into someone else who he figured was a friend ...
Happy 6th Birthday, BunkoSquad.com
Six years ago Michael gave into my nagging "You really need a website! Your words! They need a website!" In honor of BunkoSquad.com turning six years old today, August 12th, everyone should buy a BS original "Left Behind" shirt. I insist!
Boston Blog Meetup coming up on Wednesday, August 18th at The Trident Booksellers and Cafe
Last month 23 people showed up at the mostly first ever Boston Blog Meetup. So, we're doing it again on Wednesday, August 18th at 7:00 PM. The gathering takes place at Trident Booksellers and Cafe located at 338 Newbury Street in Boston. Good times!
Support Literacy, Win Books
Write an essay about your most memorable reading experience in the last ten years and Powell's Books might give you $1,000 to spend on books at their website. With every essay submission they'll also donate one dollar to Reading Is Fundamental, the nation's largest nonprofit children's literacy organization. The contest runs through ...
Web addiction excuses conscripts
Too funny. A number of Finnish conscripts have been excused their full term of military service because they are addicted to the Internet, the Finnish Defence Forces said on Tuesday. Doctors have found the young men miss their computers too much to cope with their compulsory six months in the forces.
