'In The News' Category
Bus Tracker in the News
Monday is the big day when the updated software we developed is going live in Chicago. Chicago bus riders will be getting email and text message alert capability as well as a bunch of other enhancements. The Chicago Tribune published an article about it today. Beginning Monday, May 18, CTA customers can sign up to [...]
Dr. Thomas Milhorat
The NY Daily News has been leading an attack against the doctors (Dr. Thomas Milhorat and Dr. Paolo Bolognese) who performed surgery on Michel for her Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia. Today I sent a letter to the editor in response. I doubt that the Daily News will publish it because they only print letters that [...]
Patenting a Hole
I love The Register. It’s an IT newspaper from Britain with the slogan, “Biting the hand that feeds IT.” They are always finding great stories in the IT world such as this one. Apple has been great at applying for patents for virtually anything having to do with the iPod, but this is really stretching [...]
Fox News Can’t Find a Brothel
As many of you probably know, there is a proposal to build a high speed rail from Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas, Nevada. A high speed rail would reduce traffic, reduce energy use and pollution, and would be reasonably cost efficient. The proposal is to use an existing rail station near Disneyland on the [...]
Sex Doll Thief Caught
You might recall that I recently wrote about a thief who broke into sex shops, stole blow up sex dolls, and made use of the dolls in the alleys of the sex shops. The culprit was caught on January 20th. He had left fingerprints and DNA at the scene of his crimes but it was [...]
Andrew Wyeth (1917 – 2009)
Andrew Wyeth. (American, born 1917, died 2009). Christina’s World. 1948. Tempera on gessoed panel, 32 1/4 x 47 3/4″ (81.9 x 121.3 cm). Purchased by MOMA in 1948 for $1,800. The woman crawling through the tawny grass (Christina Olson) was the artist’s neighbor in Maine, who, crippled by polio, “was limited physically but by no [...]
Strange News
Sometimes the fates are against you and perhaps are trying to tell you something. The message that French yachtsman Jean Le Cam was sent may have been, “It’s time to find a new sport.” Le Cam was competing in the Vendee Globe solo yacht race when his boat capsized off of Cape Horn in South [...]
I Hope She Prayed Hard
This happened in New York and has been on the news here quite a bit but I’m not sure if it has been reported outside of the area. Ed Wynn Rivera, 22, is mentally disabled, has cerebral palsy, and can’t speak. Every day he is taken by bus to his special needs program in lower [...]
Death of an Angel
What happened to Emily Hughes is every parents worst nightmare. Only watch the video if you don’t mind crying.
A Matter of Intelligence
President Bush’s interview with Charlie Gibson of ABC’s World News aired last night. Some excerpts: “A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein,” President Bush said. “That’s not a do-over, but I wish the intelligence had been different, I [...]
