Yesterday afternoon my family and I took in (literally) a stunning piece of art installed at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum here in Washington. To celebrate Presidents Day, artist Zilly Rosen created an enormous quasi-pointillistic dual portrait of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama, a photo of which I snapped with my iPhone. You might notice […]
About ten days ago, as I found myself researching a new book, I asked if any of you knew of some amazing amateur athletes. In emails, in the comment section, and even in one enterprising reader’s phone call, you offered lots of amazing suggestions. Thank you.Now I’ve got another question — and I figured I’d
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Friday’s unemployment figures reveal once again the grimness of the 2009 labor market. So how are organizations responding? By taking steps that, not too long ago, would have been unthinkable.Consider IBM. According to Information Week, the company is offering its laid-off workers a fab deal: It will give them jobs . . . in emerging
“The right brain seems to be creating a surplus at the very moment the left brain sees its executive pays cut.”— CNET, “Will TED 2009 heal the Davos depression?”
If you’re in Washington, DC, on Tuesday February 3, please stop by Politics and Prose bookstore at 7pm. I’ll be interviewing Matt Miller about his thought-provoking [and prescient — Ed.] new book, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas.The conversation (that is, Matt’s part of it) should be a great way to get a better understanding of the financial
For some book research, I’m looking for examples of extraordinary amateur athletes — people intensely (perhaps maniacally) devoted to a sport, but who derive very little in the way of money or fame for their efforts. If you’ve got ideas, drop me a short email or post a comment below. Thanks.
Today’s NY Times Business section reports that 11,000 people work at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Equally staggering, “Forty million visitors arrive here each year, which, according to the mall’s promotional material, is more than visit Disney World, the Grand Canyon and Graceland combined.”
BoingBoing points to this 1981 report from KRON-TV in San Francisco about the incipient move toward online news. It’s great viewing — especially the breathless factoid that 2,000 to 3,000 people the Bay Area already have a personal computer (!) and the tag identifying one of the interviewees as someone who “Owns A Home Computer.”
