Today, from Gawker:
The New York Times will make all its employees feel better by installing $110,000 worth of trees in the lobby. Seriously! They announced today that they’re building an “open-air birch and moss garden” on the ground floor of their fancy new building. An open-air birch and moss garden. So maybe this season’s $15
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I turned on the TV when I got back to my hotel Tuesday night and somehow ended up on the Golf Channel. They were offering news coverage of the Southern California fires, but purely in terms of which golf courses were affected. Of particular interest was Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, which will be hosting not only the Buick …
When I saw this sign at a McDonald’s here in Madison I had to take a picture. Why? Because of its potential international-relations consequences. Back in 1996, Tom Friedman proposed his famous Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention in the New York Times:
[W]hen a country reaches a certain level of economic development, when it has
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So says a new study:
Gay men working in management and traditional blue-collar, male-dominated jobs make less than straight men because they are discriminated against by their employers, according to new research released today by the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics. Lesbians, however, do not
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Back when it became clear early this year that subprime mortgage lending had become a big mess, I sort of figured that the practices that had led to the mess would disappear pretty quickly. That’s the way financial markets work: They can go wildly overboard in one direction or another, but when it comes time to correct they at least do …
I took a photo of the first class I spoke to here in Madison, so when I arrived in Bob Drechsel‘s intermediate reporting class this afternoon the students asked if I was going to take their picture. So as an illustration of, I dunno, the self-indulgence inherent in blogging (or at least my blogging), I’ve decided to take their picture …
My colleague Julie Rawe forwarded me this piece of joy. It’s from someone named Merilee at Kern Communications, and promotes “world-class career coach John M. McKee, author of Career Wisdom among other business success titles.” McKee, she says, “details 10 key self-destructive workplace habits sure to endanger one’s longevity on the …
“Snack.”
That’s the word that woke L.A. Times columnist Rosa Brooks up in a cold sweat recently. She’d remembered that she’d promised to supply her child’s class with snacks the next morning, an ordeal she recounts in a column this week titled, “Modern ‘parenting’ insanity:
having kids today has turned into a full-time job and career …
And it’s really cold. At least it is if you’re riding a bike along Lake Mendota before 9 a.m. with no hat and no gloves.
I’ve blogged before about the loopy brilliance of Ray Hudson’s soccer commentaries on GolTV, and linked to the Hudson Wikipedia entry in which some of his gems are collected.
But now I’ve learned (via DuNord, who says Grant Wahl told him about) that there’s now a whole friggin’ blog dedicated to “Hudsonia–the Wisdom of Ray Hudson.” Two …
From a Larry Lessig review of Robert Reich’s new book, Supercapitalism (via Ezra Klein):
[W]e need to understand the nature of the corporation — to make money — and come to love it, and yet, to keep it in its proper place, just as you can love a tiger, but know that it’s not the sort of thing that should play with your kid.
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“Me want food.” Anyone else watch 30 Rock? This is the thought bubble floating above my head at all times these days, so I thought it appropriate to blog consecutively about said subject matter.
My colleague Jeninne Lee-St. John pointed me to this article in Ad Age (did I mention I interned there? Worst internship of my life, except for …
