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Boston Globe: Despite vaccine, flu "rages"
They’re dropping like flies at Emmanuel College, in Boston… –mb (Unsure: Plenty of vaccine to go around this year. But it’s the wrong stuff. Photo: CDC) Flu virus widespread around New England – The...
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Boston drivers: Fill-up at ten cents per gallon
Converted: This tank, in the trunk of a converted green grease car, holds waste vegetable oil. (Photo: Ben Falk, from the Green Grease Monkey website.) by Mark Baard As gas prices pass four bucks per...
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A dark New England day, 228 years ago
Mizzou tree ring experts blame Canadian wildfires from Mark: George Washington’s diary notes a “dark day” on May 29, 1780, in the midst of the Revolutionary War. He wasn’t referring to a lost battle,...
View ArticleBusted: YouTube strikes again
There’s nothing worse than a dirty cop. Here, a Salem policeman get nabbed on video, attacking a kid (who may have had a big mouth) on the sidewalk. A fellow officer tries to push him off as he presses...
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Thin ice
Rescue ladder, one of two at a pond in Milton, Mass., near my daughter’s elementary school. There is no skating permitted here, but the ladders might save a wayward pooch, or perhaps a drunk venturing...
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Birth of a fetish: Boston's Girls 4 Ganja
One of the Girls 4 Ganja. Photo: Scott Gacek Scott Gacek has a stoner’s dream job: Taking pictures of attractive young women, and getting blazed with them on New England’s beaches, and in other...
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Boston: Price of cheap wireless may be less privacy and security
Photo: CC/Niall Kennedy Universal Hub relays the news that Boston’s languishing municipal Wi-Fi project–that is, its government-run wireless internet service–has been reinvented as an ad-hoc, mesh...
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In Maine, they call their sea beast, "Cassie"
The Necromancer says the Vancouver Island setting encourages people to spin cryptozoological tales. But wherever water meets the imagination–or keen eyes, or a camera–these creatures emerge. This...
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