Archive for October, 2006

CBGBs runs out of time


The club CBGBs, which was the launching point for bands such as The Ramones, Television, Talking Heads, Blondie, and many others has reached the end of it’s time. The building that it is located in was bought a number of years ago, and the new owners don’t want the club to be there anymore. [...]

Trekkies bid like confused Ferrengi


Christies held an auction of star trek memorabilia and collectibles, about 1000 lots total of stuff from the actual making of the shows, including a captains chair and other interesting things. They thought they might bring in 3 million.
Trekkies obviously didn’t read that comment, and the bidding went fairly wild. The model used [...]

Corn Maze


I have done this before, and it is really a blast.  This time of the year, when the corn has been taken in but the stalks still stand, some farmers will make “corn mazes”.  A giant walk through maze that can take forever to figure out.  Corn grows row upon row and all looks the [...]

You Tube becomes Google Tube?


The internet land grab continues without stopping, I guess.  The snapping up of popular (sut usually very unprofitable) websites by the biggest companies continues.  It has been that long since Fox Companies / Rubert Murdoch snapped up MySpace for about a zillion dollars.  Well now the rumor mill has Google buying You Tube, the video [...]