Month: January 2009

  • Today’s Report – January 31st

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Honey Laundering. There was an interesting article on the radio program Life On Earth this week highlighting this eight-part investigative report by Andrew Schneider. Basically, Schneider discovered that imported honey — about 2/3 of the honey consumed in the US — is quite likely to be “trans-shipped” to avoid tariffs. A huge percentage…

  • Today’s Report – January 30th

    NY Times: Obama’s New Chef Skewers School Lunches. This is a very good sign. Here’s his thoughts about the National School Lunch Program which provides breakfast and lunch for 28 million kids a day, including every single child in the Cleveland School District. There are a couple major repercussions of [the National School Lunch Program]…

  • Today’s Report – January 29th

    Cleveland Magazine: Med-Mart Free For All. Very nice roundup of the various reactions and comments to the Medical Mart / Convention Center decision. The best item linked here is all the sputtering by the Greater Cleveland Partnership, whose desires were totally rejected. Obviously the Mall site is the correct one (and I believe that’s the…

  • Today’s Report – January 28th

    Slate: Why some foreigners can’t believe Obama won the presidency fair and square.

  • Tech Report – January 28th

    Dell: Latitude XT2 Docs and Specs. Update: Looks like they’ve pulled the page down for the time being. Nothing really earth shattering there, but at least the new machine uses a standard Intel chipset. The ATI X1250 chipset on the XT is horrible. Project Virtual Reality Check. “Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) is a joint…

  • Today’s Report – January 27th

    The ALA gave out their 2009 literary awards yesterday. Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book won the Newberry. Quite a change from last year’s winner. Maybe the ALA’s been reading their press? Anyway, I was happy to see that a majority of the Newberry and Printz (YA) medal and honor books have rolled through the house…

  • Today’s Report – January 26th

    New York Review of Books: Google and the Future of Books. A relatively thoughtful piece about the sea change that’s going to occur once Google does reach their stated goal: to scan and make available the information from all books. Won’t they have some sort of “monopoly” on “knowledge”? How do traditional libraries or even…

  • Tech Report – January 26th

    Heise Security: A Single Overwrite Will Do It. It’s been conclusively proven that overwriting the data on a hard drive just once will make it impossible to recover. Now how to convince our security guys that this is true? I’m sure they have an order in for one of these.

  • Today’s Report – January 25th

    Onion: Area Teen Up to Something. Slate: More about Heroes and Cowards. Slate: Cooking Their Books. Is it possible to recreate restaurant meals at home? Not really very well. And especially if the recipes aren’t actually the ones used in the restaurant. GreenCityBlueLake: City Chickens. More on the upcoming Cleveland urban farming legislation.

  • Today’s Report – January 24th

    NY Times: This has got to be the best article ever in the Times. (via Scalzi) YouTube: An Engineer’s Guide to Cats. It’s got cat yodeling! Cleveland.Com City Council Blog: Chickens, bees, police deployment and $24 million in neighborhood rehab funds: The week ahead at City Council. Apparently the Urban Farming bill will be discussed…